Daddy loves Me!

Charles is soaking up time with Baby Vivien, since he had the flu and couldn't touch her for a whole week. I love the picture of him laying beside her, because you can see how tiny Vivien is.

Vivien's first trip to church

Here's Vivien getting ready to head to the church for the first time. Juliet chose a red dress so they would match. Yes, the both look very Christmasy, but cute. Let's say they are still dressing for Valentine's Day.

Creative Cole

I love this complex structure that Cole built with tinker toys. This is a "tall building" which is one of the things that Cole is obsessed with right now. For some reason he loves to look at pictures of skyscrapers.

The Many Faces of Juliet

Juliet is so creative and is the queen of imaginative play. It is a creative whirlwind wherever she goes. Here are a couple of cute pictures of her the first is mask of a "sack person" that she made.

(Sack people are from the video game Little Big Planet which she plays with her dad).

No costume here, I just couldn't resist this picture of my cutie. I love when her hair is back in a pony tail, but it is still short enough that it usually gets destroyed after a couple of hours of Juliet play.

This is a picture of Juliet in her self designed Link costume from the video game, The Legend of Zelda. Can you tell she's been playing a few video games with Daddy while Mommy recuperates? I especially love how she made the hat by putting a T-shirt on her head.

3 Weeks Old!

Vivien Skye born February 4

Our family has been very happy to welcome Vivien Skye to our family. She was born on February 4 at 5:51 p.m. This was exactly a week after her due date. I don't know how long she would have taken to come on her own. I wonder if it EVER would have happened, although I am assured that no one has ever given birth to a 2 year old.

When I went to the Doctor on Friday morning I was 4 cm. dilated and had been having on again off again contractions for weeks. The Doctor gave me the option of heading right over to the hospital and having the baby, and I'm afraid we took him up on it.

They broke my water which got me a little further then they gave me a very small amount of Pitocin which got that baby right out. I went from 6 cm dilated to 10 cm dilated in about 20 minutes. I can't express how painful that was, but I'm really glad that I didn't have the epidural because I didn't have any of the negative side effects that I've had in the past (spinal headache or scary drastic drop in blood pressure). I also thought that the pushing was MUCH better when I could feel what I was doing.

Baby Vivien is doing great. She is beautiful and a really good baby. Here are some pictures of us loving on her.

p.s. The sign was Juliet's gorgeous work.