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Lilly Elise Garner was born on March 27, 2009 6 lbs. 8 oz 19 inches 100% loved

Thursday evening around 10:45 my water broke. Trent and I headed to the hospital after calling a friend to come stay with the girls. We get to the hospital and I am telling everyone I see that I want an epidural. Once they get me all situated, ie get changed, put in the IV, draw blood, etc, the nurse checks to see how far along I am. I am at 1cm. I was at a 1 at my last 2 doctors appointments. They tell me the doctor has to see me before I can get an epidural, again I tell them that I go quickly. Awhile later, I ask the nurse when I am going to get checked again, I am told about an hour, I convince them to check me in 1/2 an hour. At this point I am at a 5. They call the doctor to come to the hospital. Needless to say, I didn't get my epidural, by the time the doctor arrived, I was pushing. The baby was face up which made her the hardest one to get out, I kept pushing and pushing and wondering why she wasn't coming. At 3:20 am Lilly Elise Garner was born. She weighed 6 pounds 8 oz and was 19 inches long. She is super cute and we are so glad she made it safely here.

Big Stuff

Shea got kicked out of the crib last weekend. We thought it would be best to move her into a big bed before the baby came. Leah was thrilled to share her room with someone too. So far Shea has transitioned well. She takes her naps, bedtime though she likes to giggle with Leah and climbs out of bed. I expected all of this and can't complain, she eventually goes to sleep and likes to sleep in her big girl bed.

30 Days and Counting

My mom keeps asking me how big I am, so I thought it was about time for me to put my pride aside and post a belly shot picture.

What we have been up to

Trent helped the girls dig out a tunnel in our mountain of snow that gets piled up onto the circle from the snowplows. It took them at least 2 hours, but has also provided endless hours of play time. Leah likes to go out and play in it...she pretends she's a mermaid and that is her island. This is a bridge the girls made by themselves. They also have carved out various routes to go down the mountain like slides. Sometimes I wonder how I get anything done. I was helping the older two with homework and Leah and Shea decide that they need to make an extreme slide by placing it on top of the couch. I was happy to see a little forethought on Leah's part by placing a pillow and blanket at the drop off point.

Again, how does anyone get things done around here? There's always a face (and hands) that needs to be washed.

Helping out with our Valentine tradition of making heart shaped sugar cookies. I've decided that making cut out cookies is really not fun for the mom. There's so much work and mess that goes into it that it takes away any pleasure in creating them. It's a shame the kids have so much fun.

Help! We need a name

Trent and I are finally getting around to figuring out a name for the baby. Coming up with another girl name has proven to be difficult. So...If you have a great girl name that you would like to suggest please let us know! We are open to suggestions!

Winter Boredom Busters

So currently we have a weather advisory telling us that it is dangerously cold outside, with winds blowing like crazy and it's been snowing on and off all day. Basically we aren't going anywhere if we don't have to. So with all this at home time, what do you do? If you're Leah, you dress up all day long. Yes it is wonder woman to the rescue from winter blues! She had a friend bring her a bag of dress up clothes yesterday and she' been having fun ever since. I guess it's a good thing it's too cold for her to go outside like this.

We recently got the Wii and Wii Fit, and have found it to be a lot of fun. Brynn is preparing for her ski jump, check out that form. Shea has her own board to stand to participate in the activities.

Abby and Brynn on a mandatory after dinner jog.

Brynn's 7

Brynn turned 7 last week. She is a lot of fun to have in our home. She is always kind and helpful and likes to help others. She is doing great in first grade and chose to bring in chocolate chip cookies for her birthday treat. She also chose to have a chocolate cake for her birthday. We love you Brynn! A birthday phone call while Shea eats her cake.
It doesn't take much to make her happy!