Aubrey 5mo and JE 19mo

Aubrey is now 5 months and 15.6 lbs {90th percentile}. We are still nursing on demand and the sweet thing is still going to sleep in her swiing and then in bed with her mommy and daddy the rest of the night.  

But I don't mind at all. She is so sweet and snuggly. I really try to enjoy the closeness we have. Jane Ellis never slept with us, she always wanted her won space. But this babe- she loves to be in our nice comfy bed!

Aubrey is starting to sit up and is really becoming aware of her surroundings. She grabs things and plays with whatever she can touch. She loves Daisy and grabs her everytime she walks by. She's also starting to get really vocal, so we've been working on our sounds.

Jane Ellis is 19 m 26 lbs {90th for ht and 50th wt.} and is really starting to talk. I mean in two and three word sentence talk :) And she's starting to go pee and poo in her potty. Pretty inconsistently, but she's going when I ask her to, so I think that's pretty awesome.  

This pretty much sums up our days!

I caught Jane Ellis reading to her kitty in the laundry room. I told you she was smart ;)

Big blue eyes and pretty red hair....

My name is Aubrey Claire, Aubrey Claire 

I'm 40w 4d "past" due. I'm 185# but still feel great. I'm on weekends now, but had to call in my last weekend of work due to Jane Ellis being sick. I felt like she needed her momma all to herself. I'll never regret having one more week of "just us" time. Here I am at 40 and 4:

So I had planned to go with Shannon to Summer Kids to get Jane Ellis a few outfits for this summer. As soon as I woke up, I knew there would be a baby within the next 24 hrs. It was the same way I was with JE. Contractions started fairly weakm but noticable, not regular, but coming about every 30-40 mins. Now, to some people this may not be a big thing, but for me it's huge. I don't have contractions. I would have a few strong ones at work occassionally. But never at home. After deciding there was nothing I could do at home, I loaded up my little buddy, JE, and we headed off to Memphis. As the day went on, I started calling the parents and in-laws to let them know what was up. By that afternoon, plans had been made to go out to eat at pancho's. It was my parents, Robert's parent's and Robert's Aunt and Uncle, and of course sweet Jane Ellis.

During dinner I timed my contractions to be around 10 mins apart, but they still weren't too bad. My parent's went home and told us to just call when we were headed to the hospital and Robert's parent's stayed at our house to keep Jane Ellis. I knew there was no way I was going to the hospital until JE was tucked in and asleep. So after I took care of her, we all sat around to watch a movie and just let me progress. Now, with JE I had horrible back labor, I was only 3-4 cm when I went to the hospital - not this time! All of a sudden my contractions went from every 6 mins apart but hurting, to every 10 mins apart but pretty intense - TRANSITION. I didn't realize it until I went to the hospital, but I was in the last stage of labor lol I told Robert we could go, but that it still might be a while after we got to the hospital - the contractions just weren't as bad as they were with JE. The last straw was when I kept thinking I needed to go to the bathroom. Finally, after the third trip it dawned on me - duh! that was me feeling "pressure"! I told Robert "we need to go now!!"

Thankfully, Robert's parents had planned on spending the night at our house with Jane Ellis. We arrived at the hospital around 1am. I don't think they believed me when I said very calmly "I'm in labor" It took us almost 20 mins to get into a room! Hellooooo, I'm 40 and 5 here! Pretty sure this is it lol

After I was finally hooked up to the monitor my nurse said "wow, have your contractions always been that strong? 'yep' ohh, let's check you....ok you're 8 cm!" After my wonderful epidural, I only pushed for a few minutes when this little bundle was easily delivered at 326am weighing 8 lbs even and 21 inches long:)



Meeting Aubrey

Jane Ellis meeting Aubrey



We're home!