Our First Family Photo

I realized the other day that we have yet to have a "Family" photo, no one had taken a picture of all three of us....can you believe we made it almost 3 weeks before I had someone take a picture? So we had one taken the other day and I thought I would share.

First Trip to the Salon

I had a much awaited hair appointment and took Ava with me on her first visit to the hair salon. Being that she doesn't have much hair, I didn't figure it would be a very eventful trip for her, little did I know. She was all dolled up with a headband and bow, you should have seen the numerous "looks" we tried on her....we finally decided on the small white bow and pink headband. Leslie is going to make some more so we can accessorize with every outfit! :)

Things we have learned about Ava

Ava has grown so much in the past 2.5 weeks, I can't believe she is going on 3 weeks old, and to think that I haven't even reached my due date- it all still seems so surreal. I haven't been very good about taking pictures and I have been even worse about updating the blog, so I am vowing to try and do better :) I uploaded tons of pictures to my photobucket account, the address is in the side bar of the blog- labeled "Photo Album" Hopefully you will enjoy all of them.

I thought I would use this post to let you all know a few of things we have learned about Ava in the past 2.5 weeks.

• She is a side sleeper- like her momma!


• She likes to mimic us by sticking out her tongue!


• She loves being held!


• She is a girl of many expressions!


• She LOVES getting a bath!


• She loves sleeping next to mommy and daddy

2 Week Checkup

Ava went for her 2 week doctor's visit and had a great report. Her weight had dropped from 5 lbs 12 oz to 5 lbs 3 oz which is the 10 % line the doctors do not like to see them drop below. We had been working hard to get her weight back up to her birth weight, or at least headed in the right direction. We weighed her and she had gained 7 oz in 5 days, she now weights 5 lbs 11 oz! She has grown a half inch in 2 weeks so is now 19.5 inches long and her head is 13.25 inches around. She is growing sooooo fast. The doctor checked out her eyes, ears, and mouth and made sure everything else looked good and he said she is perfect (of course, we didn't have to go to the doctor's office to know that!) We are still having trouble finding clothes that fit, she has out grown the preemie size clothes, but she is really still too skinny for the newborn clothes, but I know it won't be long.....

Ava Elisabeth is here!

What started out early Friday morning at a Doctor's appointment as a routine check quickly escalated from there. My blood pressure was high and I also had a little bit of protein in my urine which could only mean 1 thing- preeclamsia. The issue was now how severe was it. So she wanted to send me to the hospital to monitor my blood pressure. So I went back and finished up a few things at work, grabbed my bags and headed to the hospital. Once we were there, Dr. Long took a few looks at me and decided he wanted to deliver me. Now, the only problem was that she was breeched so it was going to be by c-section. For some strange reason, I wasn't really nervous about it, I guess I knew I was in good hands with my doctor. We had a few hours to notify everyone and our little girl was going to be born. After everyone making it to the hospital (and when I say everyone, I mean EVERYONE!) There had to be at least 30 family members there- You can't help but see that the little girl is already so blessed and loved! At 6:54 pm on September 5, 2008, Ava was born, 5 lbs 12 ozs. She was 3 1/2 weeks early so there was concern for the maturity of her lungs however, everything checked out fine. Here are a few pictures, and there will be many more on the way!

Ava's Shower

September 2nd, 2008, I was thrown a baby shower for Ava. It was at Aunt Debbie Hagan's house and everything was so cute! We received so many nice things and so many things that she will enjoy! I can't wait for her to get here to see all the wonderful gifts people who care so much about her already gave to her.

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