Baby baby

We now are a household of five people. Our new daughter arrived last Thursday the 19th. We finally picked out a name and it is Andrea Jr. We'll call her jr. for short. Just kidding. Her name is Molly. No middle name-- most people ask so I thought I'd throw that out there. Everything went well. I had my third and final c-section and I'm feeling great. I'm doing dishes, laundry, vacuuming, and I've even cleaned a couple of bathrooms. The pain killers help a lot. I'm not tired yet, last night was my first night home. I slept very well in the hospital, so I'm sure the tiredness will start piling on and I'll get behind and not catch up for 18 years.

She was only 7 pounds 6 ounces, which is much smaller than my other two. Smaller by a pound for Norah, and almost 2 pounds for Matthew. She seems so petite. She doesn't have the tons of dark hair or long dark eyelashes that M and N had and her head is quite small. She looks very different than my other two although she kind of has Norah's mouth.

We almost named her Jane, but in the hospital I felt she didn't really look like a Jane. Not that she especially looks like a "Molly" but she seems more like Molly than Jane to me.

I'll post pictures soon.

Matthew had some dental work done last week. It was the cutest thing. It took him forever for him to drink the stuff that would kind of help him get sleepy. He can be very stubborn (like his mom) and it took him 15 minutes to drink less than 1/4 cup of the stuff. Then we had to wait for about an hour in the waiting room. The stuff worked. He was getting kind of loopy. He would say, "mom, let's go home so I can lay down on the couch," or "mom, I'm getting tired, are you getting tired?" He was started to have slurred speech and by the time we went to the dentist chair he wasn't walking too well. When the dental hygienist came to take us back he said, "I love you mom." I replied that I loved him, too. He then said again, "I love you mom." The other people waiting got a good laugh out of that. He did pretty well with all the stuff in his mouth. At first I was going to have him completely sedated, but decided to try this other way first. I'm glad I did because I saved $150.

Basically I'm huge. My belly has been measuring full term for the last few weeks.

remodel pictures

We are redoing our living room. For any of you that have ever been in our living room, we know you are fans of the popcorn ceiling, poorly constructed shelves behind the couch and other perks of our 1956 home. Well, all that has come to an end. The popcorn ceiling has been removed, the shelving taken down, and what was a closet at the top of the stairs (that I used to put cleaning supplies, mops, brooms, etc in) has been taken out and now we have access from the top of our stairs into our living room. Dave has built a half wall where the shelves were. It is not even close to being done. I hope he gets some alone time to do some hard core work on the room while I'm in the hospital. I made him promise me that he wouldn't go motorcycling on Saturday instead of working on the room. I guess I should have made him promise me that he wouldn't go other days as well.

On a much happier note, I am having this baby tomorrow!