Today I made Lucy’s appointment for her 6 month pictures.  I can’t believe that next week my 4lb 1oz preemie will be 6 months old!

Two days before she was born I was already hospitalized with the doctors telling me that my body was attacking me and the baby and that it simply wasn’t safe to carry her to term.  With that I was told to finish my sandwich, pack my stuff and get ready because I was headed down to L&D in about 20 minutes to be induced.  Before the extreme fear could even set in I was told by another nurse that a neonatologist would be in to talk to me about what would happen when the baby was born.  I had so many questions… Would she go to the NICU?  Would she get to stay with me?  Would it be a natural birth or a C-section?  Will she be ok?  Will she look funny from not being able to form fully? Will she even be able cry when she is born?  Can she breathe?

I tried to calm myself down telling myself that I was being dramatic, but frankly I wasn’t.  All of these questions I had were actual concerns and sadly they weren’t questions I was going to get answers to.  And wouldn’t get an answer to until more than 48 hours later when she was born.

My amazing baby girl was born crying and breathing at 11:20pm on August 18th.  There is nothing better than that little cry.  A sort of proof of being ok.

She did have a fight though.  Her lungs weren’t fully developed and a breathing tube had to go in, followed by a c-pap, and 15 days of IV’s, blood draws, blown out veins, and several days of a new mommy not being able to hold her daughter.  However in a fashion true to who she is, she fought everything!  Pulled her tubes when she was done and gave the proverbial finger to everything they said should would have difficulty with.

So, here we are about one week shy of her six month birthday.  My 4lb 1 oz baby girl is now pushing around 15lbs (actual weight to come next week after her doc appointment).  She giggles, and smiles uncontrollably at the sight of her daddy, she stands holding onto only fingers, she loves her jungleroo and of course the puppies.  I am so so so proud of my little fighter!

Almost 6 months later!

Just a few hours old.

Today we had our big ultrasound re-do since the last one was a huge epic fail.  This one was wonderful!  She is growing so big so fast!!!  Today she is measuring right on track at 22 weeks and 6 days (tomorrow will be 23 weeks) and weighing in at a wonderful 1 pound 1 ounce.

Every time we see her there are stronger features and she looks more and more like a baby.  We are starting to see little features that we can attribute to one of us.  For instance she showed us her fingers in one of the shots and we are pretty sure they are Josh’s long fingers and not my short stubby ones (yay!!!).

We are just so in love with our baby girl!

So stinkin CUTE!!!

Cute little hand!

Heartbeat

I love love love these.  I used to work in the LA showroom that sold these socks to department stores and boutiques and had not forgotten them over the years.  They are by a company called Trumpette, one of my favs on the market right now.  I mean come on!

As I’m sure you all can imagine this upcoming move to Buffalo, while super exciting, is very scary as well…especially with a new baby on the way.  Happily some of my fears have been eased a bit by meeting one of Josh’s co-workers Sean’s girlfriend Melissa.  She is also moving to Buffalo and they will be living in the same apartment community that we will, which will be fun! We are so excited to have friends already in the area, makes things much easier and happier. Not to mention that Lucy’s new Auntie Melissa has already volunteered to babysit!  She even got us a few new clothes for Lucy that will be nice and warm for the frigid winters of Western New York.

We found the cutest outfit for Lucy!  I think, just maybe that this is going to be her going home from the hospital outfit…at least until I find something else…you never know!

After we found out that we were having a little girl the shopping started…immediately.  On the way home from the ultrasound we stopped in at the local Babies R’ Us for a little shopping.  As soon as we walked in the door Josh noticed that the clothes were buy one get one free.  I turned to look at something and when I looked back I found my adorable husband wading through the racks and racks of pink frilly dresses and floral onesies finding cute things for his little girl.

After about an hour of looking around we picked out 4 dresses and a ton of designer onesies.  All in all a great day.

If you have talked to Josh and I at all in the last few months we would have told you whole-heartedly that this baby was a boy.  Well much to our surprise during the scan there was no twig and berries and the distinct lack there of made it clear that this was our little girl.

Her name will be Lucille Ann Pettit and we will call her Lucy.  The name Lucille was my great-grandmothers name.  I adored her so when Josh mentioned the name Lucy it just all came together.  The name Ann is my moms name and who are we kidding the name Lucy Ann Pettit is just plain cute!

As excited as we were to have a boy we are even more excited at the thought of our little girl!  We are feeling very blessed today.

Josh and I took a babymoon on mothers day weekend to Disneyland.  Now being that I’m uber pregnant I can’t go on most of the rides, but since Disneyland has been such a huge part of our lives it seemed like the perfect place to go on our last vacation together before the baby comes.

We were able to get a good deal on the amazing Grand Californian Hotel and Spa for two nights so we jumped in it.  The hotel was amazing!  It looks like a old timey wood lodge.  Like something you would have stayed at in 1920 Adirondacks.  And when we got into our room and realized it was designed around Snow White wishing well, which is where we got engaged, we could not have been happier.

Our first night there we met out with our amazing friend Mat and his girlfriend Kimberly and her daughter. Had a great date night with them in downtown Disney and then spent some time in the lodge just catching up.

The next day was our big picture tour of the park.  Since most of our trips were always at night we wanted to take advantage of the daylight.  I still feel bad that Josh didn’t go on any rides since I couldn’t, but he wouldn’t leave me…I love love love him for that.  The walking led to lots of pain for me which meant lots of sitting down, but Josh was super understanding and protective about it.  It made for an amazing trip…rides or not.

We also decided to do some shopping for Peewee.  We didn’t know what the sex was yet so we just bought a few things we loved.  Including two hats…one with our girls name and one with our boys name.  Below are a couple of pictures of things we bought.

There is so much to say out this amazing trip and what it meant to us, but words cannot express how amazing this trip was.  I am so lucky to have such an amazing husband and getting to spend those few days with him in a place that we spent so much time falling in love with each other was just a dream come true.

While shopping with my mom the other day I found the most perfect diaper bag!  I had been seing this particular brand pop up over a baby message board I’m on and fell in love with it awhile ago, but when I saw m Petunia Picklebottom bag in Nordstrom, I just new I needed it!

I will be the first one to admit that I don’t really know what it totally necessary in a diaper bag, but at least I will be cute while figuring it out!

We all know that Josh drinks the purple Kool-Aid over at Yahoo, and of course as he was shopping the company store he found baby onesies that say “My Daddy is a Yahoo”.  He fell instantly in love.

So, a few weeks later while I was visiting him at work we decided to go to the store and pick up the beloved onesie.  Ten minutes later we walked out with three.  I love both my Yahoo’s.

Today my mom came in to town for a visit on her spring break.  When I picked her up at the airport she had a huge checked bag and a carry-on bag.  I didn’t think much about this until we went to check her into her hotel and she said “we don’t need to bother taking my bags up”.  I soon realized that she had (in her effort to keep our secret until we were ready tell) shopped her way into Grandma oblivion.

When she got to our apartment she emptied out her bags resulting in a huge pile of wrapped presents for the baby.  That night Josh and I opened all of onesies, socks, and blankets!  It was very exciteing to finally start shopping and getting things for the baby, especially since we hadn’t gotten anything up until this point. Including some amazing Gap Baby’s First Denim that I’m in love with, and of course baby’s first Chucks.

So today we went in for what is called a Nuchal Translucency scan that measures all parts of the baby to make sure there aren’t any chromosomal or major birth defects.  It was very stressful going in just because there are so many “what if’s” going on in your mind.  So, after about a 15 minute ultrasound we went in to a room with a nurse who gave us a paper with our probability of any defects.  She handed us a piece of paper that said “screen negative”.  Josh and I both teared up for a second because for the first time we were actually able to breathe a sigh of relief and actually start appreciating our pregnancy.  Below is one of the pics they gave us you will the the facial profile.  I know I’m biased but that looks like a pretty cute nose to me!!!