Don't be Fooled!

Ok, something about newborns in their carseats always cracks me up. Maybe because they're so darn tiny and half folded...

anyhow - she always looks so sweet and angelic....

UNTIL...
...the clock strikes 5pm. Looks like we're in for some collic again. I've started diet #1 so cross our fingers it works! (Diet #2 involves removing all dairy PLUS whey-creams, butter, etc). Hey, so any tricks you guys have used---I'm TOTALLY open!! And yes, the football hold is brilliant when Hal is holding her!

Hal thought it would be funny to "scare" me when he came home earlier from his business trip and I thought I heard something downstairs and Kya was already in bed. He jumped from around the corner and scared the daylights out of me! He totally opened a can of worms with that one because he had no idea I had been bouncing/feeding/rocking/soothing a screaming baby for 3 hours and I was so startled I just burst into tears. PATHETIC!!
Isn't there some unwritten rule that you don't sneak into the house after dark when your wife has been alone while you're traveling???


1st day of Kindergarten!

She did it! She's off and THRILLED! As I was standing there with three other friends, I was laughing at the moms getting emotional. Then they all lined up and all waved goodbye and then I had to fight back the emotions. My baby is growing up way too fast.
I asked her to stop growing and she said, "Mom, I'm trying really really hard to stop and it doesn't work!"
She was so excited while the girl behind her was crying and the boy next to her was literally screaming.


I love this kid. She is such a sweetheart and spark of light in our lives!

My girls

I think I have about 5 minutes!

So I thought I'd share a little about this pregnancy. This kidd-o is truly a trooper. Evelyn means "life." I thought: Enough said - It's perfect!

From the hurdles of trying for so long for a baby,

job change,

stress of our 12th move,

broken hand then subsequent surgery,

and then some major life stressors,

a last-minute trip to Canada and then on to Utah...

We also juggled complications with her umbilical cord and a few other issues that had them monitoring me with ultrasounds every 2 weeks.

But when the time came, I can only say:

The delivery: PERFECT (less than 5 hours, 3 pushes)

The Baby: PERFECT

My Doctor: PERFECT (okay, I REALLY love her)

The Recovery: PERFECT

(well, as good as that goes)

When I took her to her Pediatrician follow-up, I had a concern about her spitup and the doctor almost freaked out on us and sent us RUNNING to the hospital downtown for x-rays and upper GI testing. She literally said,

"Don't check out at the front desk, get down there asap and I'll have everything set up for you at radiology."

Her reaction was so strong I was shocked. I think the hormones were kicking in (not to mention the milk at this point and she refused to let me feed my starving newborn) and the tears started flowing as Hal drove down to the hospital.

In my mind, I thought, of course, SOMETHING has to go wrong when everything else was going so perfectly.

Apparently the worry was that her internal organs had all shifted but they seemed to check out fine. My worry was how invasive the tests would be on a 4-day old (Dr was saying "scope, etc" but they ended up being alright. WHEW! I kept thinking: I had already handed one baby over to two surgeons, I didn't want to do it again!

Here is Kya, very proud of her drawing (errr....tracing) and wanted me to "show it to all her friends"--Cute kid. She's been so great with Evie, albeit a little tearier than normal, but I think we're starting to settle down.

A HUGE THANK YOU

for all the emails, notes, gifts, etc. Hal would read them to me at the hospital - so I'm a little behind in getting back! But thank you!! It was so touching to feel her arrival celebrated even though we so far from all of you guys!

My heart is full

Precious BIRTH day!

Evelyn Sage

Born: Aug 10th, 13:29

8 lbs

20.5 inches

And where was I before the day

That I first saw your lovely face?

Now I see it everyday

And I know
That I am

I am

I am

The luckiest

I love you!!