Annalee Arrives!

Time to catch up with my blogging...been busy spoiling a sweet baby girl! :)

It was finally here...we were going to get to meet our baby girl the next day!  Let's just say the night before she arrived I think we both got a total of 3 hours of sleep.  I was excited to meet her and nervous about the c-section and Dallas had a very busy week at school with basketball beginning so I think it just hit him the night before he was going to be a Dad tomorrow! We got up the Friday morning at 4:30 a.m. to get ready for the big day.  Here's my last belly picture and us leaving for the hospital.

Once we got to the hospital everything moved very quickly.  They took us back to the room and started my IV (which I still think was the most painful part of the whole experience).  Many nurses began coming in introducing themselves and explaining how everything would work.  Before we knew it 7:30 a.m. arrived and it was time to begin the c-section.  Walking in and seeing all the instruments and just being in an operating room made me a little nervous....also knowing the epidural was coming did not help!  I have heard very bad stories about how painful the epidural is but very much to my surprise it was not bad at all.  Once they had me ready they brought Dallas in and it was time to begin.  After that it seemed like she was here within minutes!  She arrived at 8:10 a.m. weighing 6 pounds 14 ounces and was 19 1/2 inches long.

First picture with Mom.  She looks so excited...

Proud Daddy



First Family Picture


After we got to see her for about 20 minutes that morning they took her back to the nursery for her first checkup and to clean her up.  Little did we know it would not be until 3:30 that afternoon before we got to hold her again.  They called and said she had some fluid in her lungs and her breathing wasn't normal. Finally, after Mom and Traca stood at the window staring at the nurses and Dallas asking to go into the nursery to see her, she was brought into our room for everyone to meet her!

Looks like her Daddy


By Sunday we were ready to go home with our sweet little girl and asked to be discharged.  Thank goodness they said yes because we were ready to sleep in our own bed! Here's Annalee in her cute little blue jeans and jacket ready to take her first car ride:

Best Christmas present ever! :)