Confessions of a Short-Hair Girl

Last fall I once again decided to grow out my hair. It is the decision I make most every fall. I make the same decision because very short hair is quite cold in the winter and I do not look good in hats. I also decided this year to grow it out “just one more time” before having it short forever. You see, I am a short-hair girl. I have known this for some time, though have continued to fight it.

Last fall, I asked Katrina and Amy to help support me through growing my hair out. Their job was to talk me out of cutting my hair when I felt myself giving in. They did remarkably well and as a result, my hair was the longest it has been in 7 years.

I say “was” because I learned something while preparing for labor. I learned that I cannot go from ‘pixie’ to ponytail in nine months. I learned that I can not pull my hair back into a pony tail – but rather the double pony from 1992. Alas, jr. high is not the look I am going for.

So, I cut my hair. I feel so much more like myself. Hurray for being a short-hair girl. Thank you to Amy and Katrina for your valiant efforts. Hopefully, I will have learned my lesson and will buy a cute hat sometime this fall. J

Hurray for short hair again!!!

Papa and the baby

Sacked out on Grammy

Her eyes are not open :-)

Faces of Adalie

Kenton, Katrina and Finn came over today to visit Addi. Finn was very excited to see the baby AND the cars that Sandy brought out. Finn did a great job being very gentle with her and talked a lot about the baby. Katrina brought her camera (hurray) and took some great pictures of Adalie. I'm posting a bunch of them here, because they are soooo cute.
This is our blog now - Addi's photo album :-)

Ooooooohhh!Soooo, sleepy

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Mama and baby

Sleeping

Seriously, how great is that.

Hey

So, sad (actually she wasn't crying) This is just
another momentary face.

Cute as a bug in a rug.

Bring Adalie Home

Hello all! Here's the fun baby update. We were able to bring Addi home on Wednesday after much waiting. It turns out that there's a lot to do before leaving the hospital :-) Sandy's parents helped us get home and then had to leave. They are very excited about coming back for Sandy's recital. My mom was able to stay here and help - thank goodness.
We've so been enjoying our sweet girl. She is rather amazing. She sleeps all the time and makes the most wonderful little lovey noises. When we first got home, she was quite full of air and did not like to be on her back. Her carseat has become her temporary bed. We have been seriously spoiled. She's such a good sleeper (when her little belly is not full of air).
My dad drove up last night and we had a great day with the five of us. We all ventured out to run some errands today. Addi did very well and slept the whole time. She makes some of the cutest little noises when she is waking up, so we have enough time to get home before we're in trouble. After dinner we ventured out to Alton Baker park. I have been wanting to go on a walk for months without being able to. It was wonderful. We ran into several groups of jr. highers from First Baptist on a video scavenger hunt. It turns out they needed someone pushing a stroller. We were happy to help. We also saw a Nutria. S/he was swimming around the duck pond. It came out of the water right by us. We have been on several walks with my parents since we moved here four years ago trying to see one. Tonight we succeeded. Ew!
We are looking forward to introducing her to all of you soon (next week :-) Thanks for all of your prayers and support. We'll be a little off the radar for awhile, but sure like you a lot!!!

Mom holding Adalie after we got home.

Snuggle-Bug

Seriously Cute.

Addi doing one of her favorite things.

New family on a walk....hurray!
Adalie is seriously covered up because
she HATES the sun in her eyes (naturally)
and there were mosquitos.

The Nutria

And Adalie Nicole makes 3!

Well, Adalie Nicole Miller has arrived!!!!! We welcomed her yesterday 6/16/08 at 10:25am. She weighed 6 lbs 15 oz. and was 19" (length mostly do to her crazy conehead). Nicole was a rock star once the pushing began, all the nurses and doctor said so. Dad, me which seems a bit surreal, got to go home briefly to try and sleep, I got a bout of the flu last night so not only was I no help I slept on the bathroom floor the hospital. Good times! I'm pretty out of it so this is a quick update with a few pictures! Enjoy!

Waiting....on the couch

Here's a little update on peanut! We went to the doctor on Friday. She took my blood pressure and said, "Your blood pressure is horrendous." So, that was new. She explained that I was done working and that I was to spend the weekend as a couch potato. We're going back in on Monday to see if the modified bed rest helped. If it did, then great - I'll be on the couch for the next week or so. If it didn't help, then we'll look at inducing me sometime this next week.
Sandy has his jury for his voice recital on Tuesday. This basically means that he has to have his whole recital prepared and the professors choose about 1/2 hour from all of his music. They have to pass him for him to actually do the recital in July. The doctor said the earliest we would do anything would be Tuesday night, so we're hopeful that he'll be done with everything from school before the baby comes :-)
It's been nice to rest - knowing that we'll be very busy once she comes. We'll keep you updated! Here we go!

Family

This weekend was delightful as my mom (Eileen), sister (Cami) and her husband (Dave) all came to visit. They were here for the baby shower which was also my mom's birthday. We had a great time spending time together, playing games, sleeping and eating. All in all a successful weekend. They left on Saturday, but we got to go to Saturday Market first. These are just a few pictures of our little outing.
At the end, I included a picture of my cankles (swollen ankles) mostly because I was just so amazed at how puffy they got. I've been able to rest a lot more this weekend, so they haven't been that bad for a few days!
After the fam left, we worked to put the rest of the baby room together. We were able to put up the letters Katrina made - I had to show them off.

Mom, me and Cami

Sandy and I (and a giant baby:-)

This is a cankle. Notice the inner-tube
connecting the ankle and the calf.

Her name letters!

Name letters and crib

Baby Shower

I realize that I haven't posted in awhile and it now looks like all I do is go to baby showers! That's not quite true, but I certainly needed to blog about my church shower. My dear friends, Amy and Katrina threw a wonderful jungle-themed shower. It was wonderful to be celebrated in this way - I feel very special. My mom, Eileen and sister, Cami were able to come to town for the weekend which made it even more special.
Katrina's mom, Janice lead a devotion. This is a regular part of showers in my home church and was a very important part for me. I found myself quite tearing up as Janice shared about the impossibly huge job of being a mother and the amazing grace of God that covers us all. Thank you, Janice - that was very special.
Opening presents is always fun and for me the fun is doubled when there is a captive audience to listen to my stories :-) Oh, and we unveiled the baby's name. Her name is.....

Adalie Nicole Miller

We love it. And we can call her Addie, which is Sandy's favorite! Katrina painted some letters for her room - she used the same Noelle Dass art that is already in her (Adalie's) room. They turned out so well.

Cami, Eileen (mom) and Me with
the Adalie letters.

My dear friend, Jolyn

Katrina, Amy and I
Thank you girls, so much!!!!!

This is one of the cute, cute outfits
that Sandy's mom, Lindsay sent for the shower.
Thanks, Lindsay!

Our very own Katrina painting.
How awesome is this.

My (I mean Adalie's) very own
'Ann' blanket. I love it!!!

So many people can to help us celebrate this wonderous, new little life. Thank you to all who not only celebrated with us this night, but who also pray for us. We are getting very excited to introduce our little one to you all soon.