Been awhile!

I haven't Blogged in a while... we have done alot since Easter. I will have to go back and look at all the pics to tell you what all we did. We did go to Michigan and everyone got to meet Lil Sterling Renie. My grandma got to meet her too... Here is a pic from that... Evan celbrated his 8th birthday on the 7/7/07... The lucky day! He wound up with $140.00. I told him he was taking us all out to the fishcamp tonight!! LOL!

Easter

We colored eggs Saturday night. While coloring, Sterling fell asleep in her bumbo seat on the table. We couldn't resist taking her picture with her egg. Sunday morning we got up checked out the Easter Buckets and got ready for Church. The boys managed to find a few eggs before Grandma and Grandpa picked them up for Sunday school. The finished when we returned from eating Easter dinner after church at The Juction restaurant. They are still missing one egg. A green one! They will probably find it some where this summer. Or maybe next Easter. It was a great Easter!! Especially having a new addition to the family. :)

My space

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Beading

My Friend Candice has got me into beading necklaces.

Daddy Slideshow

Slideshow

Sterling's SMILES

Sterling is beginning to smile.......Isn't she sweet?!

The boy's age ticker...

Sterling's age ticker..

More pics of Sterling

Sterling's 1month old

Sterling is 1 month and 4days old in these pics!! She's growing fast! She weighed 9 lbs 4 oz last Friday at the Dr's. I know she is well over 10lbs now. She loves to eat!!!

Had to post more pics....

Sterling Renie Reid

Sterling Renie Reid was born February 9th, 2007 at 1:57 pm. She weighed 7 lbs 12.8 oz and was 20 1/4 inches long. My induction was started at 6am. The Dr broke my water around 8:45 and I started having stong contractions around 9 am. About an hour later I asked for an epidural. Best thing in the world!!! :)I was 8 Cm at 1:00 pm. I felt no pain until it was time to push about 20 mins later. I Pushed a couple good pushes and was told to stop. We had to wait for the Dr. I waited until it was unbearable and Sterling asked the nurse if she was abkle to delivery the baby and she said they all were... that was all I needed to hear...because out she came into the nurses arms. The Dr showed up in time to deliver the placenta. Epidurals are the BEST!!!!

Induction Date set!!

Last night while getting out of the bathtub I thought my water might have broken. I went to L&D (not my favorite place) just to get checked. The nurse first ran the "special" paper on my pad... and it turned dark blue... the color it would be if there was amniotic fluid on it. It would be yellow- green if it were anything eles. So they check me with the paper and it only turned green. Then DR Bridges checked me and said that she could feel part of the sac... so if my water was broken it may just be a small leak. Then I was sent home. But I was able to get a cup of their delicious ice!! :)
We had our last prenatal appointment today. The Dr set us up for an induction on Friday @ 6 am. I am pretty excited to finally actually know when she will be here!! I cannot wait to see what she looks like. I am sure closer to the time I will be nervous. I plan on getting and epidural... so hopefully it will be smooth sailing. I asked the Dr how much he guess she weighed and he said over 8 lbs!!! Eeek! I about flipped when I found out that my darling husband was a 9 lb 8 oz, 21 1/2 inch baby. I guess we will find out Friday how big she actually is.

BABY SHOWER: JANUARY 21ST

We had out baby Shower January 21st. It was given to us by Sterling's Mom, Aunt Ruth and Cousin Julie. There were 56 people invited!! Although the weather was wet and a chance of freezing rain alot of people showed up. It was a great turn out!! We only got a couple doubles, but pretty much eveything we can use!!! Now we are just waiting on baby. :)

35 weeks

We are 35 weeks and 2 days today. We had a Dr's appt on Friday the 12th. We are more thinned out, but still closed. The Dr guessed that Sterling weighs around 6 - 6 1/2 lbs right now. We went to childbirth class Saturday and got to tour Labor and Delivery. We have our hospital bag packed and are pretty much set to go...except for our carseat which we are getting Sunday @ my baby shower. Irene invited 56 people. Should be fun.

We have fish!

We went to the flea Market this morning in North Carolina. Nathan wanted a parakeet that a man was selling. $10 for a parakeet, and $10 for a cage. He had a bunch of them. I told Natey I would think about it. They were cute, But I though about the noise and esp. with the baby going to be here in probably less than a month. I decided No, we shouldn't get one. He was heartbroken. :( So I told him we would go get him a fish instead. We ended up buying everyhting for the fish @ Walmart, then we went to Petco and bought two fish. Nathan got a Black popped eyed fish he named Black eye. Evan got a gold fantailed fish he named goldey.

Happy New Years!!!!!

Happy New Year!!! We celebrated by having our friend's Andy and Candice come over. He sent off fireworks and watched the ball drop on t.v. and played video games with the boys. It was a fun night. Candice made me a Mickey Mouse necklace& earrings to match my bracelet she made for me for Christmas. She also got a Mickey figure. I will try to post pics of it later. They went home around 1:30am and we all went to bed. I woke up about a half hour later having contrations. They were not very strong so I knew I wasn't in labor. They just made me very uncomfortable. They lasted thoughout Monday. I made a Dr's appt Tuesday morning and the Dr said I was thinned out but still closed. He gave me a note to put me on half days at work!! YAY! I am enjoying my half days. :)