First Bath

First Easter

Gianna and Hudson's first easter with matching bunny bibs from Grandma Jeannette.

FIRST TIME COUSINS MEET

Gianna and Hudson meet for the first time.

FIRST SMILE

Ok, he has been smiling for a few days but we finally captured it on film! Actually Grandpa Steve captured it on film (which is no surprise considering he always has his camera in hand when the grandkids are around).

IT'S A.......

B O Y !!
Hudson Cole Reynolds
Born April 3, 2007 at 8:22am and weighing in at 7 pounds, 14 ounces and 20 inches long.

Monday April 2, 2007 at 5:00am

On Monday, I awoke at 5:00am with some mild contractions and some nausea. I wasnt sure if 'this was it' so I just waited and started timing them to see if there was any rhyme or reason. They were around 15 minutes apart but not always regular. Around 10am JR and I went to dog park to walk around and get the dogs some exercise and to see if walking would start things up more.
I thought the contractions were going away and began thinking that this was not the day our baby would be born but a false alarm. I started walking back to the car when a flood of water soaked my pants. My water had sprung a leak... and I began thinking that this might be the day after all.
We went back home and walked around a bit more to get things started on their own. We wanted to stay home as long as possible so I had to continue to check my temperature and make sure the fluid was clear and without a smell.
Everything was going well and around 4pm, the contractions were five minutes apart and we left for the hospital.... Traffic time.
We got to the hospital around 5pm and they checked to see how dilated I was. I was 5cm so they admitted me and I went to a Labor and Delivery room. Everyone thought we would have a baby in our hands before midnight.... but Baby Reynolds had other plans...and I had MANY more hours of labor before I would have the little one in my arms. After 28 and a half hours of labor, we finally met Baby Reynolds.

No April Fool's Day Baby Here

Soooo - thirty...nine...weeks... and no baby! I am going back and forth between thoughts of "come out baby!" and "if you need more time to cook, go ahead and stay as long as you want." I feel that if I just stop thinking about it, then the baby will come out and it will all happen. BUT - how do you stop thinking about the moving baby that is hanging out in front of you? Impossible! Here is the most recent picture... Until next time, I will continue to grow...

Baby's Size

Gianna and I

Gianna sits on her future cousin...

Doctor Appointment

I had my weekly appointment today and they did an internal exam which showed that I am 1 centimeter dilated and 60% effaced. Things are 'softening up' and we are right on track to deliver any day now! My stomach (or rather the uterus) is measuring 39 centimeters from my pubic bone to the top of my uterus and this number usually corresponds with the number of weeks pregnant you are. So again, we are right on track! Basically, all this means is that we are still waiting...

The Waiting Game

I think I mentioned it before, but the most difficult part of pregnancy, in my opinion, is waiting for the baby to come out! The fact that it could happen at any time is completely consuming. In the middle of the night last night, not sleeping, I realized that JR and I are basically waiting for our lives to change. Don't get me wrong, we are enjoying our last moments together (it might be hours, days or weeks) by going to dinner and watching movies and spending a lot of time together, but there is also a sense of excitement that makes us all the more aware of the fact that we really are just WAITING.

38 weeks

Anyone out there that still thinks my belly looks small???? Didn't think so!

A comparison...

The first photo is me pregnant at 13.5 weeks.....

This photo is 36 weeks....

Can't forget the doggies...

How Maya gets a nap in without worrying that Jagger will steal her bone.

The latest photos of our first children...

The room is almost complete....

The nursery is pretty much complete. This is one thing that is not keeping me up at night any longer even though I have to get JR to hang a few more things. I also packed my bag today -- I hope I didn't jinx us because at this point I cannot imagine being pregnant (and getting bigger) for another month!!
These last few weeks have definitely been the most difficult - not in terms of uncomfortableness - though I am definitely more uncomfortable being this big - but difficult because I have no idea when this baby is coming! Plus, the fact that it could be any day is making me so excited. Waiting out these last few weeks is way harder than not knowing the gender of our baby!

The newest of Baby Gianna

Belly Size

We discovered something funny today.... I measured my stomach with a piece of ribbon (at my belly button) and JR put the ribbon around his belly to compare and we realized that we are exactly the same stomach size now! Too funny. He wouldnt let me take a photo but I promise it is true!

Still pregnant

I am still around and still pregnant... I have just been super busy and my days just get away from me. I have been focusing most of my time on the nursery which is nearly complete. All the baby's laundry is done and ready to go and the diaper bag is packed. I still havent packed my bag, but that is on today's list of things to do - and hopefully I get to it! I will post pictures of the nursery soon!

Today's purpose in posting is to introduce baby Yadrick.... due to make his or her debut October 1, 2007. Soooo cute!!

A night out in LA...

JR and I went to LA to have dinner with a good friend of mine from law school and her fiance. We have been trying to make it up there for quite awhile and thought that it was best to go now before the baby comes. Not to mention that I am the sober driver, making it easy to get home from a night out. We had a great time and here are some photos from the night!

35 weeks and counting...

This pregnancy hit me in the last week. I have all of a sudden become really pregnant and with that comes some uncomfortableness, not to mention some nervousness. I went nursery room shopping and grocery shopping with my mom yesterday and thank goodness we did the grocery shopping last because that way I could hang on the cart while pushing it around. I wore tennis shoes, but after just a couple hours, my feet felt like bowling balls. They didn't look too swollen but they felt like they were falling off. I came home and put my feet up for a bit, but they are definitely not the same anymore.

This last week has had some good developments too - I am sleeping really well. Don't get me wrong, I still get up to go to the bathroom about a half dozen times during the night, but I think I am used to it and I am able to fall right back to sleep. I must also be used to sleeping on my side now too. I wake up in the morning feeling like my body got hit by a bus and it feels new every morning to get up and start carrying the extra weight around, but at least I am sleeping!

I am now going to the doctor every week for check ups. They check the size of the baby, the baby's heart rate and any new symptoms I seem to have that week. They also checked last week to see if I was dilated (because I was having contractions). The os of my cervix was opening and softening but not the main part of my cervix (doesn't really mean anything yet). There really is no way to predict when this baby is coming, contractions or not, so JR and I made a friendly bet. His guess is the week of March 19-26 and I guessed March 27-April 2. I am not sure why both of us think the baby will come before the due date (especially since most first babies come after their due date) but I think it is because I am starting to feel like I have been pregnant forever.