Growing Our Family

Family

We are now officially a family of 4 with the girls far out numbering Chris who is enjoying all the wonderful girls he now gets to spoil and love. He is still cooperative with matching when we go to church and is supportive in every other way with taking care of our girls and house. I won't say for sure when the next addition will come, but we are going to spend our time enjoying the two girls we have now and hope for another boy in the family when the time is right. My mom loves granddaughters but has expressed how it would be nice to have a grandson too at some point, and at this rate it's anyone's game who will give them their first grandson!

Best FriendsThe early part of this week started off great with still getting to spend time with my bestie and her baby boy but sadly, she had to go back to Missouri. It was such a great way to spend the last few days of my pregnancy because she likes to spoil me with yummy food, fixing my house, getting my car taken care of, and cleaning my kitchen. Life so far hasn't let us live close to each other but we still feel close now that we get to bond over our adorable babies and having a family.

Claire

She loved having visitors all week first starting with my bestie and now my mom who came to help watch her when we went into the hospital. She's also seen my aunts who have come to see the new baby and gets excited when people come over because she gets so much attention. The handling of a new sister has seemed to be hard on her because mom and dad were gone for two days and now we hold Shay when she wants us to hold her. When she came to visit at the hospital things were good until she started getting bored and has a lot more things to do at home so she isn't as annoyed when we are paying attention to Shay.

Shay Anna May Bell

I get another weekly section! Now that she has vacated the belly and joined our little family I will get to talk about her all the time and she gets her own section in our blog. Her big day was on Friday, March 1st at 3:03pm and she measured 7lbs 13oz and 19.5 inches. Labor went really well and there was no complications or problems (I didn't even rip!) and when she had her checks in the hospital she was perfect. We only stayed there for the 24 hours after she was born so we could get back home to Claire and normalcy (and my own comfy bed).

Chris

My wonderful husband was there for me in the hospital on Friday even though he worked the night before and had to nap for the first hour we were there. It was so comforting to have him beside me for when I was getting the IV and the epidural, and then again when the real labor started and my body was shaking. Since he works downstairs as a tech it was easy to talk to the nurses and techs that helped us out at the hospital. He even had some of his work buddies come up to visit after she was born and we were hanging out in the mom and baby unit.

Recovery

I honestly feel almost back to 100% since it was such an easy delivery I was able to up out of bed as soon as the epidural wore off. I walked out of the hospital with Shay and Chris and went to church today even though I was tired after a night of not great sleep. Shay doesn't like to be moved once she falls asleep in my arms after eating so we have to figure out how to get her to sleep in her own bed next to ours. Hopefully today will go better and I'll catch up with my sleep over the next week, especially since I have my mom and Chris here to help with watching Claire and Shay.