Little Gym clips and Grandma's visit

My mom was able to come visit us for about a week and a half. She and Chloe are great buds. Here they are in the kitchen. My mom was making breakfast and Chloe was hoarding the cheese. We all really enjoyed my mom's visit. Thanks mom!! We love you:) Chloe looks at the chair where you sat during dinner and says "poppa, poppa". (That means grandma and grandpa.)

Daddy with his girls.

Cute big sissy pic. We have about 20 seconds or so when Chloe holds Deuce until she loses interest and tries to throw her off...

Grandma Carla and her girls! Chloe was being squirmy.

Here we all are at The Little Gym right before my mom had to leave.


Here are a couple of quick clips. In the first one, Chloe's being chased around the gym by daddy. The second Chloe's showing off her skills on the balance beam.

Details

Chloe, daddy and little Deuce. Chloe kept trying to give Scarlett the balloon...by give I mean hit on the head.

Chloe looks like such a young lady in this picture. I know I'm her mommy but she is really a beautiful little girl. Daddy's not too bad looking either...

Little Scar about an hour or 2 after she was born.

I look like I've been put through the ringer. Oh wait, I had just finished 17 hours of back labor. I debated putting a pic of myself on this blog, but we're all friends, right?!

Just a cute pic of Scarlett after her bath under the warmer.

Thanks for all your comments! I got to pick the name. Trevor was gone at work and I had the papers in front of me. It was the name I liked the best, though I don't know if she quite looks like a Scarlett. She can grow into I guess.

So for all of you who are interested, here are the details. Trevor and I went out to eat at Yamato Japanese Steakhouse on Saturday night. We both joked that I'd probably go into labor since I had such a full stomach. Well about 11:30 that night I did. I'd been asleep for about an hour and woke up with a start. Thought it might be gas, but it was more, much more. After monitoring them for a couple of hours I called the doctor's office. The doctor on call told me to come in b/c the contractions were 2-4 min apart and lasting about a minute each. We got to the hospital around 2:30am and they hooked me up to monitors and stuff. My whole labor was back labor so when we got to the hospital I was asking for medicine. They gave me a shot of something which slowed my labor so the contractions were 6-7 min apart. Since the labor slowed and I hadn't dilated anymore they SENT ME HOME!! I was so angry. I was in a lot of pain and I knew I was in labor. I was afraid I wouldn't make it back in time once I got home. We got home around 6am and I continued to labor. I was in so much pain. Back labor is rough. Finally, I called again and said I had to come back and "I couldn't do it anymore". (Those were my exact words.) I went back and was 7cm dilated in full blown labor. I was like "yeah, duh"!! They had to admit me and give me so many fluids before the epidural. Trevor thinks I broke his hand during my contractions. Oops! When my water broke there was some meconium staining which scared me. It didn't cost any problems so we were grateful for that. I got the epidural around 2:30- it worked wonders. About an hour after that I was 10cm. They turned me on my side so that she could drop down. I pushed for about 15 minutes and Scarlett was born! I was so thankful for the epidural. My total labor was about 17 hours- all of it was back labor. After that experience I don't know if there will be a child #3. The most painful experience of my life to date.

So there it is. I have to thank Jade for her post about me being past my due date! That in combination with the Japanese steakhouse must have been what did it!!

Scarlett Rose is Here

Scarlett was born on Sunday, August 23, at 4:46 pm. She weighed 7lb 7oz and was 19 1/2 inches long. We're both doing well and I'll write more later. Just wanted to let you know.

Pool

Here's a cute pic of the little girl and her daddy. We went to the pool today with daddy and grandma. What fun! Chloe loves the water. The aquatic center on base has this portable slide thing that Chloe loves. My mom and I went Tuesday and they pulled it out. Here's a video clip of Chloe using the slide. I have to say that she was more daring on Tuesday and didn't need as much help. But atleast you get an idea of what she was doing.

Silly buddha

Just when you think they can't pull the wool over your eyes anymore they get smarter. It was awfully quiet in the kitchen earlier today and I just figured she was wandering around under the table like usual. Nope, she had crawled up on the chair and then onto the table. Lovely. We bought a new table recently and it's a high table. One advantage of such a high table was that she wouldn't be able to climb up on it like our old one. Yeah, right! She's been climbing up on to the chairs recently but today was the first day she actually climbed up on to the table. Scary. She doesn't know how to get down off either the table or the chair. Crazy little girl!

Here she is lounging in Deuce's swing. In all fairness I guess it was Chloe's swing first. I looked over one minute and she was pushing her baby dolls in it. The next minute she had climbed into the swing and was playing with the fish mobile. She was actually able to get out of the swing on her own. I was impressed, I thought she might tip it over. Please take notice of her new sandals. Those are one of the pair we got at Sears yesterday. She thinks she's so big wearing them. Trevor says she's too young for platform sandals. I say you're never too young for heels!!