Due Date

So today is Avery's due date and instead of having a baby, I'm crying over the fact that my precious baby girl is already one week old. Yes, we had the baby! Avery Parker decided to make her grand entrance on Friday, August 21st at 6:05pm. She was 7lbs 8oz, 20.5 inches.

She is absolutely perfect. I am so in love with her. I cannot believe this precious child belongs to me. I feel so undeserving yet so honored that the Lord chose ME to be her momma. Since her birth date, I've been trying to find the perfect words to thank Him for this amazing blessing. I find myself searching for the right thing to say and there are just no words that can explain how thankful I am. Instead, I am constantly saying "Thank you Father". I cry constantly. My heart is full of love not only for her, but for my Saviour who continually blesses me. He is good. Avery's birth date was hands down, the absolute best day of my life. I hope I will always remember every single detail of August 21st, 2009. I look at the pictures every day, I find something new every day, I love her more every day.

I will definitely post the birth story soon but for now, I'm soaking up every single minute with my baby girl. My mom left today after spending a week with us and I'm still pretty bummed about that. She was an amazing help and I will miss her company. I will now have to call her 100 times a day to get answers to my new mommy questions :)

Here are a couple of pics. I have probably taken 1,000 pictures since last Friday so it was hard to narrow it down. I would normally ask you all to forgive my appearance as I look quite rough in the picture below, but nope, not this time! Yes, I look rough but I don't care. I had just given birth to the love of my life.

*my mom and I before the 2.5 hours of pushing.

*daddy getting ready to deliver his baby girl :)

*My daughter laying on her momma's chest.

*Daddy's first time holding lil' miss Avery

L O V E

*First car ride.

*Avery's first nap in her crib

*I'm including this pic just for fun, one of my friends sent it to me. Look at my hair. O M G!

"Blessed is she who has believed that what the Lord has said to her will be accomplished"

Luke 1:45

I have reached the ultimate stage of uncomfortableness. o-m-g, you will not believe how big I am. I have to remember to take a picture. I don't think I've been around a camera for the past two weeks. At my last appt., (which was Monday), I was 3cm dilated, 100% effaced and Avery was at 0 station. This is all wonderful news except, I'm having NO contractions whatsoever. Or maybe I am and I just can't feel them. At any rate, I'm definitely in the early stages of labor but this could go on for weeks. It is now hard to eat, sleep, walk, talk, laugh, etc. I mad an appt to have a Mommy to Be massage and mani/pedi at Glen Ivy tomorrow and I'm hoping this will put me in a wonderful state of relaxation.

On a totally unrelated note, have any of you tuned in to watch Guilianna and Bill? I've watched the last 2 episodes and I love them. They are too adorable.

I have tons of pics to post but ehhhh...i don't wanna download them. Yes, I'm THAT lazy. It's horrible, I know.

I'll keep you guys posted :)

xo

Chunky Monkey

So it looks like Avery may be a lil' chunker. I had and ultrasound on Friday and I learned that Avery is approximately 6lb 6oz. My doctor predicted that she would be around 8lbs 6oz if I make it to my due date. I'm 1cm dilated and 80% thinned out. I'm pretty sure that Friday will be my last day at work. I'd like to have a week off before her arrival so I'm hoping she doesn't make her debut until the week of August 10th :) I still feel pretty good. I'm tired this morning but I had a super busy weekend and didn't sleep well last night.

I just wanted to post a quick update. Back to work I go!

Hope you all have a great week.

xo