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Katie

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Brett

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Lindy

Who do you think she looks like?

Lindy's Blessing Invitation

I know I keep using the same picture of her over and over, but it's my current favorite... I think I need to get to the mall for a photo shoot. For anyone who wants to come... here's the invite!

Invitation card personalized with Smilebox

Lindy 2 Month Stats

Our girlie girl, is a little over 2 months now - crazy! She sure is growing - as evidenced by her latest stats.

This is probably one of those weird things, that only Mom's care about... but here it is anyway.

Length: 23.0in (90% percentile)

Weight: 10lbs 9oz (75%)

Head Circ.: 38cm (75%)

Cuteness: Like a button  

I brought Lindy and Brett with me to the last Friday of school for our district, and had a good time saying hi and goodbye to my kiddos. I hope it's only a temporary goodbye for my teacher friends. I miss chatting with my "teams." Here are a few photos of my last day at FHMS - I'm sad I didn't get more with the other teachers.

I love being a mommy, but there are definitely some things I will miss about teaching - especially my friends. When I had a great lesson, or even better - a fun lab, I really did enjoy myself. There were only a few truly hard days when things fell flat on their behinds, or when the students were completely insane. I think teaching is kind of like childbirth... it doesn't seem like it was all that hard when I look back on it (selective amnesia, I guess). I definitely hope to go back when my own kids are all grow'd up. 

It's definitely harder to have "grown up" conversation when I'm mostly hanging out at home with a 2 month old. But... Mom and Dad are coming home this Saturday! Ah!!!! So hopefully Mom won't mind my running around the house behind her, chatting non-stop... just like the good ol' days.

Lindy 1 Month Old!

I know everyone probably says this, but I can't believe my baby is already 1 month old!

Lindy has been really fun to have in our home. She eats and sleeps most of the time, and sometimes cries a little in between, but on the whole she's a perfect baby. Brett and I are having a lot of fun just watching her little face while she sleeps - she seems to have a lot of food-related dreams. We sure enjoy having such a sweet little gal.

I suppose I should have blogged earlier, but there really isn't a whole lot to say, so I'll add a bunch of pictures instead (I tried to put them in chronological order so you can see how she's changed already).



This isn't a particularly exciting video, but she's awake, sculpting the air with her hands (which she does constantly if she's not swaddled), and sneezing (anybody who's anybody loves baby sneezes, right?).

Wake Up, Little Lindy... Wake Up!!!

This is mostly for my PUs in Hawaii so they can see the kid in action!

Who let that stork in here?!?

Who knew this could actually happen ... on April 7th, we left the window open on a nice spring day, and a stork flew in and dropped off a lil' kid for us.  Magically, the tumor in Katie's abdomen was immediately resolved!  Magically-er, both of us are getting less sleep these days!

We call the bundle "Lindy Paige Groneman."  Lindy is the nickname of Katie's Aunt. Katie has been doing great since the stork's delivery and her tumor extraction/disappearance.  She's only been on Ibuprofen.  She hasn't even needed the Percocoet, even in the hospital.

If the stork had given me an ugly kid, I would have loved her all the same, but Lindy is ridiculously cute, and makes us laugh a lot with the faces she pulls.

WHO DISTURBS MY SLUMBER??

She's actually better than I had imagined with sleeping.  Sometimes (certainly not always) she'll sleep for 4 hours at a time if we don't wake her up, but then we usually wake her up at that point to eat.

Her bilirubin levels are high, so we started with the bilibed yesterday.  Levels are down today because of that, but we're going to do another day of bili-lights.  I guess I'm just glad that we have the ability to monitor her bilirubin levels to make sure she's okay.

She's cute.  She's fun.  We're both very glad she's here and doing okay.  I'm glad Katie is doing great too.

For the record, here's the series of events at the hospital:

Apr. 6th:

0800:  We get the call to go to AF hospital for the induction.
1000:  Start Cytotec
1600:  Start Pitocin (which was tapered up to the maximum "normal" dose for quite a while without much progress, and went a little beyond "normal" with the OB's approval.)

Apr. 7th:

0120:  Artificial Rupture of Membranes [which was particularly effective to get labor really going]
0430:  Epidural
0940:  Surprisingly suddenly dilated to a "9 1/2" and "pushing" commences.
1023:  Stork flew in and dropped off a kid, and Katie's tumor was resolved!
1032:  Lindy to Nursery because she wasn't 100% on APGAR scores, not a particularly strong cry and a little floppy.
1100:  After nurses and a respiratory therapist listened to her and assessed her, they called the pediatrician and recommended that he order an IV bolus to expand intra-vascular volume.  He did.  60 mL.  IV started, bolus given.
1110:  I clean her off while they're working on their stuff.
1330 (ish): Katie down to Mom/Baby and meets up with Lindy again.

Apr. 9th:

1000 (ish):  Discharge from hospital to go home.

     

Induction to commence in T- some hours

They haven't given us a specific time yet, but we'll be induced tomorrow. They apparently have to wait through the night to see how many admits they have and if they'll have any staffing issues. So... we'll get a call early tomorrow morning and then head in ASAP if all goes well. I'm barely dilated, so getting my body ready for induction will be a long process in and of itself, before they even start the pitocin. Likely baby Groneman won't actually be born until April 7th... but here's to hoping for a quick and speedy labor (...right...). Details (and cute pics) are soon to come.