napping buds

"I'm gonna lean up against you, you just lean right back up against me. This way we don't have to sleep with our heads in the mud."

happy memorial day!

1 month old

Has it really been three weeks since I last posted? Has it really been one month since our baby girl joined us? Everyone keeps telling me the first year goes by so quickly..I'm starting to see how. Daisy has already brought so much joy to our lives. She is now 23 inches long, and weighs 10 lbs, 11 oz. The outfit she has on in this picture is 3-6 mos. The arms are a little long but the legs fit perfect (they're just pulled up in the picture). She outgrew her first pair of pjs last week. She has started kicking up a storm. Soccer player? =) She has also started to follow things/people with her eyes and will turn her head to follow me. She smiles. Real smiles too, not just the gassy ones. =) She loves it when her daddy kisses her goodbye in the morning. This morning she just kept looking at him with wide eyes and would smile when he kissed her. She likes her real baths, for the most part. She's not too fond of getting her hair washed, which is funny since that's the part she liked most about her sponge baths. After embarking on a 9 hour road trip (turned 11 hours since we had to stop and feed/change her), we are slowly settling into somewhat of a schedule again. She was well on her way into a schedule before we left and then mommy and daddy just had to mess it all up so we could show her off to more family! I've paid for it in lack of sleep, but I think it was well worth it. She sleeps 5-6 hours a night, wakes for one feeding and then sleeps another 2 hours...although getting her back to sleep for that 2 hours can sometimes be a chore. Getting other things done during the day is still proving to be very difficult. How do you moms with more than one kid do it? I can't imagine caring for a newborn along with 2 or 3 other kids who need your time and attention as well! I'm sure you just sort of settle into it somehow. At this point in my life the concept just baffles me!

Everyone tells us how beautiful she is. When we were alone Josh said, "She really is cute, isn't she?" I said, "Yep!" Then Josh said, "I mean, I was just hopin' she'd come out lookin' normal.....but she's REALLY cute!" Made me laugh. Poor Josh just wanted his baby to look normal. I think he's pretty in love with this little girl!

1 week old

Daisy LouAnn Canady was born on Easter Sunday, April 12, 2009 at 5:37 pm central time at Vanderbilt Hospital, Nashville, TN. She was 9 lbs, 3 oz and 21 1/4 inches long. Labor and delivery went smoothly and quickly. We arrived at the hospital at 10 am at 4 cm, and 7.5 hours later she arrived!

I am so happy and thankful that we were able to deliver naturally with no medication or interventions. It was the most wonderful experience I've ever had. The most painful, of course, but I would do it all over again in a heartbeat. It's funny that even while I was being ripped apart, I had such an immense love for this child and that along with the focus I had of being able to hold her in the end was a driving force in getting me through.


This was the other driving force. Josh was an amazing support. He was always available for me and yet somehow he still managed to keep our family and friends updated via facebook. He is such a proud daddy and loves his little girl more than anything.

I knew that I would love her. Before she entered this world I loved her. What I didn't realize was that I would love her more every day. I've heard people use the expression before, and I've experienced it with my husband, but I wasn't prepared for the intensity at which my love for her grows every day...and she's only a week old!




I would do anything for this little girl! She is our miracle. We were one step short of having invasive surgery to find out why I couldn't get pregnant, and down to my last dose of fertility medicine. I still don't understand the full extent of God's timing, or why He has chosen to bless us with our greatest desire at all. I am, however, so VERY thankful. I just don't have the words to describe it.

40 weeks

Here we are at 40 weeks! I've started doing a few things here and there to try to encourage Daisy to enter the world. Physically, I feel fine. Really the main reason I want her to come now is because my mom is here waiting for her, and my dad will be taking a week off of work next week to come down and see her...and she's not here yet! I just don't want my dad to have to go back home to work without seeing her! That would be a bummer. We are more than ready for her entrance! We finished our birth classes, I've quit my job - hallelujah! Things are about as ready as they're going to be.

I went and met with a pediatrician today and am pretty excited b/c I really like her. This afternoon I have another midwife appointment so hopefully there will be news to report...the way I'm feeling though, I'm not expecting much.

39 weeks

Oops! Forgot to post this here...

tidbits

I finished Daisy's blanket yesterday! Isn't it so fun? I love it. The fleece is a different kind of fleece than I've used before, but I'm not sure what it's called. It's a lot softer than other fleece. The only thing is it seems to have a tendency to shed little frayed edges. I washed it so that seems to have taken care of it for the time being.


Josh seems to have become obsessed with taking pictures of my big self on the couch. Since this is where I am most of the time, it seems, I guess I shouldn't be surprised.