Saturday, September 25

Our First Meeting...
She took 5 hours of induced labor and was out in 1 push. I had to redeem myself after being such a baby with the IV {which they had to do twice} and the oh so scary epidural. The nurses were proud ;)
This pregnancy definitley felt the longest, maybe because I had miscarried 5 months before I got pregnant with Lily or maybe because I had 4 other kids to take care of and didn't stop any of their activities or maybe it was because we knew it was our last...Well at least Josh knew from the beginning it would be our last...I wasn't completly on board yet {until furhter into the pregnancy}
However things were going good as a whole until they 'deemed' me with Gestational Diabetes Mellitus {GDM} at 29 weeks. I was crushed. I thought I had these pregnancies whipped. It's my fifth one, I'm still young {enough-28} and I had never had any problems with any of the other pregnancies. So I had a bit of a melt-down, cried for a few days, was mad at Kaiser for sending me to Roseville{40 min drive} for some special appointments until I could get my sugar numbers in control. I took some classes {they made me take} and I learned a lot in the end. In my last 9 weeks of pregnancy I managed to exercise {for as much as a pregnant woman can in her last trimester} eat very well {atkins diet style} and I lost 10 lbs. It actually turned out to be good. I had no swollen feet, my face didn't get 'huge' at the end and I was kicking off this last pregnancy by losing weight! And the best part was they promised to induce me one week early. GDM rule.
So exactly 39 weeks,
Saturday September 4th 2010 Lillian Belle Miles is born.

Weighing 8 lbs 6.7 oz and measuring 19.5 in long
{not my biggest baby either, she was exactly in the middle with Dalen and Deveon being the biggest and Lexi and Noah being the smallest}

Her blood sugar was way low when she came out so they fed her a bottle and tested her throught the night and she was just fine. It was funny to watch the nurse feed her like this and to see Lilypie just chug that bottle. She was a very hungry little girl.

Meeting Grandma Dubois who held my hand while I pushed...

Meeting Daddy who was and has been the perfect coach for each and every birth.

Meeting Tami {mommy's bestie} who was part of our party crew in the birthing room ;)

Lily tested twice at the hearing station but failed. Two weeks later we went back and she passed ;)

Since Lily came at 10:24pm The kids didn't get to come meet her until the next day...

Dalen and Daddy came first and brought me a yummy Donut {since I was missing sugar} They were ready for Church.

Lexi a proud big sister

Deveon one of the big brothers

and Noah who really wasn't that interested ;) he came around eventually

Lily ready for a nap
At Home
My parents stayed for a week to help out with the kids and make sure they had a fun time for their last week off track...
Doting over our Little Lilypie

Wednesday, September 15

Noah's video of counting

This was from back in July...just forgot to post it...he was too cute eating his cereal trying to count...love this little guy and am missing my alone time with him now that Lily is here but he is enjoying being the "big boy helper" and he's all I've got now that the big kids are in school. Today we went to Music Makers then ate lunch, organized Lexi and Lily's closet and then we all 3 layed in bed watching Little Einsteins and Go Diego Go until it was time to pick up the big kids from school!

Tuesday, September 7

Our New Baby

Lillian Belle Miles
born 9-4-10 at 10:24pm
8 lbs. 6 oz. 19.5 in.

Thursday, September 2

Little Summer Getaway

Our Trip to Modesto

{but we didn't find Susan and her friends}




Each summer Josh usually covers for a pharmacist in Redding, CA for a week but since it was so close to my due date and the closest hospital is an hour or so away his work arranged it so he could work in Modesto for the week instead and had the pharmacist covering in Modesto go to Redding instead...it was very nice of Cardinal to do that for us...and so off we went to Modesto to stay in a hotel for a week with Daddy! The kids love staying in a hotel...I think this is all they know of a vacation thus far other than G&G's in SV and Tahoe...;) they liked Modesto so much they were talking plans of moving their after they become Dr's... ;)

I'll be honest...I was excited about Modesto too for three main reasons...

  • Hoping to use the Kaiser Hospital there in Modesto since it's newly remodeled and they serve a romantic steak dinner for you and honey after you give birth ;)
  • Pool and paid for hotel and meals
  • Mall with a Crazy 8, a huge Forever 21 that had all departments {including kids}, an H&M and Babies R Us


Every night we had swim time and the kids were able to practice some new things...jumping in, swimming without floaties, and snorkeling...


Lexi learned to snorkel and jump in...



Dalen showed us he could swim all the away around the pool without having his snorkel gear on...



We finally got Deveon to jump in after bribing him all week with all sorts of things...The thing that won him over was a snickers ice cream bar all to himself...



The kids loved playing in the pool and spa



and Noah loved having the freedom to roam the pool with the little swim ring that was just his size...He liked his freedom a little too much...crazy kid...here he is going "round round too-tools" {circles} in the pool...