The baby is here!!!

It's a boy!

Daniel Richard Frazier arrived July 11th at 4:01 am.

My extreme discomfort at the end of this pregnancy would be explained first when my water broke and there was a huge amount of fluid, and second by this:

9lbs 7oz!

Almost 2 lbs bigger than his sisters!

I got my second vbac which I am so glad about!

He decided to make his delivery dramatic at the end by having the cord wrapped tight 2 times around his neck AND having a hand up by his face, but all turned out well and I'll get to writing the birth story later.

He's now a week old and we're doing great. He's nursing good and gaining weight. According to our scale at home, he weighs around 9lb 13oz now, although I think this is probably inflated a little. I'm doing good, still sore but feeling better each day.

Here are some pics:

Last pregnancy picture, taken on my due date

Shortly after birth

Proud daddy
Juliana meets Daniel

Madison took awhile to warm up, but this is what happened when she did

Getting weighed before we went home

Approaching the finish line...

Just thought I'd better come on here and do a quick update, since it's been 6 weeks! I'm a very bad blogger. I am now 36 weeks pregnant, just a few more weeks to go! Yesterday we had professional maternity/family photos taken so I will post them when I get the proofs back. I'm very glad I finally did professional pics, even though the girls were not super cooperative. They were better than I expected though.
I'm feeling pretty decent, tired at times, and my back hurts but going to the chiropractor helps a lot with that. Everybody keeps telling me there's no way I'll make it to July, but I figure that probably means that I will and the baby will be overdue. Which is okay...I guess :-)
Madison is all done with preschool, so we are just hanging out, playing outside a lot, and finishing getting ready for the baby.

30 weeks!

Madison's haircut

29 weeks

Okay well, I'll be 30 weeks tomorrow but close enough. 2 weeks ago I did some routine bloodwork, and the results were all normal, so things continue to be good in pregnancy land. Our biggest news is that we have decided to forgo the plans for a home birth this time around, and have the baby at the hospital where I work at. This was a really difficult decision, and it was made for a lot of reasons. But I'm glad it's made and I'm looking forward to having this baby among my coworkers, who I really do love! It will be different but it'll work out. Just tell the baby not to come July 4th, or else my chosen coworkers will be otherwise occupied (or under the influence LOL).

The girls are doing great! The weather here has been typical western Wa weather, rain then sun, and so on. We have been able to get outside a decent amount of time, which is good since it really wears the girls out.

Madison will be done with preschool at the end of May, then it's on to summer activities. One will be a week long camp at the church where preschool is held, and then after that, not too sure what she will do.

Juliana is quite adorable, singing and jumping are 2 of her favorite things. She recently had a growth spurt, and just when I thought she was going to have to move to size 3T pants, her 2Ts are now falling off her! She's becoming tall and skinny like her sister. They do not get that from me!

Earlier this week, I gave both girls a much needed haircut. I ended up cutting Madison's a little shorter than I had intended. I think it's super cute, but she was not too thrilled with me, oops!

94 days to go...

Or so my pregnancy ticker says. I am now 26 weeks pregnant, and we have 3 months to go. I'm feeling okay, just typical pregnancy complaints, nothing horrible. My parents visited last weekend and although my mom thinks I'm smaller than I was at this time with Juliana, she is wrong, and I have the pics to prove it! However, I'm not going to post a comparison because that would make me look really huge lol. There is nothing major here to report, which in pregnancy is a good thing. :-)

The Big Ultrasound...

Yesterday we went in to have our big, most important ultrasound. We appear to have a healthy baby. I say appear because of how speedy the ultrasound tech was. It took her no more than 5 minutes to look at everything she needed to see. It was the fastest ultrasound I've had, and the most disappointing. She wouldn't let us look at the screen while she scanned all the anatomy. With Madison and Juliana, we got to look while they checked everything, and it always took a little while. This time, we only got to look for a few minutes at the end, so I hardly got to see anything. Oh well....We did get to see that the baby liked having his/her hand up by his head. I hope that changed because Juliana was like that, and she came out with her hand by her cheek. I'd like to not repeat that LOL.

Madison came in at the end and she was very good. I'm sure she didn't know what she was looking at, but it was fun to have her there.

I was very tempted but we did not find out the sex. I'm very excited to have another surprise!The baby measured right on for my due date, with long legs that measured 2 weeks ahead, just like his/her sisters did LOL. The approximate weight was 12 oz, which is 70th percentile. The machine made an estimated weight of 8lbs at 40 weeks so we'll see. I think it will be more just judging from the girls weights. (Madison 7lbs 10oz at 40 weeks, 4 days, and Juliana also 7lbs 10oz but at 38 weeks 5 days). We'll see in 20 weeks or so!

Here are a few pics of baby #3!

Foot

My Little Chefs!

My mom made these cute little chef outfits for the girls, so I thought I'd share a picture. Enjoy!

17 weeks...

I'm now 17 weeks along, well out of my 1st trimester, which is a good feeling. The morning sickness is gone, which is a huge relief. Other than being tired and my back already starting to hurt, I have no real complaints. The other night at work, we took a peek at the little one on our ancient US machine. Always fun to see baby, he or she has grown so much & was busy sucking his/her thumb. I will have my big US in about 3 weeks, but no we are not finding out the sex. We are going to have a 3rd surprise!

It is amazing to me how many people think that we are having another baby because we want a boy, and will actually make comments to that effect. So no, I don't wonder if this baby is the boy we've been hoping for, and please don't say things like that in front of my GIRLS. Anyway...I guess I should be used to the rude comments people can make when you're pregnant but it never ceases to amaze me. All right well I'm just a cranky pregnant lady I guess LOL.

Here are a few pics we took today. As you can see I am still stuck in the fun fat stage, where I don't really look pregnant. Oh well, I'll get there soon I guess hehe.

I think Madison is actually getting a little excited about the baby, it took a month but she finally spilled the beans to her preschool teachers and friends. Juliana, I'm sure she doesn't really get it, but she likes to talk to my belly, it's really cute.

Great Wolf Lodge 2010!

Last week we made our second annual trip to The Great Wolf Lodge. We had so much fun! We picked the perfect time to go because there was practically nobody else there. We even had the toddler area all to ourselves for a good while. This year was even more fun than last year, just because the girls were bigger of course. Madison was able to swim by herself with the life jacket, which she thought was the greatest thing ever. Juliana was big enough to wade through the water without me having to hold onto her so that was really nice. I wasn't able to go on the big slides this year but Rich did so that was good. Madison still refused to go on the little kid slides, but maybe next year :-) Juliana fell asleep while riding with Rich in the wave pool, it was very cute. I can't wait to go back!

Coming attraction...

Expected in early July 2010...yes that's right, baby #3 is on the way!!

Christmas 2009, part 2

A few days after Christmas, we headed over the mountain to celebrate Christmas with my side of the family. The night we got there we had a great dinner and opened presents. The girls were of course spoiled rotten! We spent almost a week there. I got a fun day of shopping with my mom and my aunt while the girls stayed with Grandpapa. We spent lots of time with my brother and his wife and just had fun in general.

The night before we were supposed to come home, Rich, Madison and I unfortunately all got the stomach flu, which was horrible. Luckily Juliana escaped the torture and got to have fun with Grandmama all day, making duplo towers and baking jelly rolls yum!

Christmas 2009

Christmas is my favorite time of year and this year was especially fun with both the girls being old enough to understand. They were very excited about all the Christmas things in the store, and all the Christmas lights everywhere and just everything in general. Christmas Eve we spent most of the afternoon and evening at Rich's grandmas and then over at my inlaws. We had pizza and opened piles and piles of presents. It was a lot of fun. Christmas morning we woke up, opened presents, (which didn't take as long this year so that was nice) and then made our traditional Christmas breakfast, which was yum. Later that day we went to Rich's aunt and uncles for dinner, which was another great meal. After that I went to work, which was sort of a welcome relief from all the nonstop festivities. For most of the night I had no patients anyway so I actually got to relax.

5 years of marriage!

On December 18th, Rich and I celebrated 5 years of marriage. A lot has happened in 5 years - a move, 2 kids, both of us starting our careers, and so on. It's been hard, but I wouldn't change any part of it!

Another big event...

On December 8th I celebrated my 30th birthday, woo hoo! We were originally going to go to Zoo Lights at Point Definiance Zoo and Aquarium but being as the temperature was in the low teens, we decided that would not be a pleasant experience. So instead we stayed in town and went to dinner at Red Lobster yum! The Sunday before my birthday we had a little family party at my inlaws which was nice. Since I wasn't behind the camera there is only one picture of the big event LOL.

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Thanksgiving...

The Friday before Thanksgiving, Rich had a work thing in Spokane so he went ahead and took the girls to my parents house, which meant I got the house to myself all weekend! Too bad I had to work but hey it was quiet while I was sleeping all day. The girls stayed with my parents and he came home on Monday. I put a first coat of paint on the living room and did most of my Christmas shopping before we headed over the mountains on Wednesday afternoon. My mom hosted Thanksgiving and it was great to see all of my relatives. Apparently I took no pictures so I have none to post!

Okay I'm going to try hard to catch up on the events of the last few months since I've been a very bad blogger!

In October, Rich and I celebrated our 10 year anniversary. Hard to believe it's been 10 years since we started dating but it has! Amazing that somebody could put up with me that long haha!