Flooding

It has been rainging off and on for a few days now. Last night it just poured down really hard. It was windy and stormy. I left to go home teaching and by the time I returned home the retention pond in our front yard was full. The side yard and part of the backyard was flooded as well. Isaac thought it was fun to play in the water this morning until he fell down because his shoes were being suctioned by the muddy bottom. It was really pretty funny.

Flooding

More Pics of Lydia

Lydia's 1st week home

Diaper babies!

New Pics of Lydia

1 week

These are some pictures that I took of Lydia. I'm glad that I have a nice camera and the experience to pose infants and people so I am able to take these pictures of my children.

More Pictures and a VIDEO

Here are all the pictures we took at the hospital. Some of the first ones are also in the slideshow below, but I added a lot more since then so You might as well look at all of them.

When we brought Lydia home, Isaac was really interested in her. He wanted to be right next to her so he could look at her. Even now, when he is in the cardeat next to her, he just looks at her, wondering what exactly she is. He just beamed when we let him hold her. He loved to give her kisses. Here is a video of him kissing her (sorry it is sideways, we tilted the camera and don't know kow to flip it). He looks up afterward with a look of pure happiness on his face.

Isaac loves to have a blanket with him when he's in the car. we forgot to have one for him the last time but he had no problem stealing it from Lydia. I guess he made up for it when he offered her some of his goldfish though.

Hello From baby Lydia Alice Powell

Yesterday, Heather had a doctor appt. They said that she was dialated to a 3 and the doctor stripped her membrain. He then told her to go to hospital to take a non stress test and to get some other tests done. During the tests at the hospital the nurse was worried about how little the baby was moving. They determined that we were not going to go home.
They started her on antibiotics for the baby and then later started the pit. By the time they started the antibotice she was dialated to a 4. When they started the pit about an hour or so later she was to a 6. They said that even without being enduced that she would have been comming to the hospital in the middle of the night anyway. She proceded from a 6 to a 10 in about 20 min.
Heather had mentioned that she felt like she should push only moments before the nurse came in to check on her. When the nurse saw her she said DON'T PUSH! I NEED TO GET THE DOCTOR! Lydia Alice Powell was born at 11:20 pm on Jan 5, 2010. She weighed 7lb 5 oz and was 19 3/4 inches long.
She has a lot of hair and we are excited to have her as a part of our family. We love her soo much.

D Day has a arrived!!! Little sister has not.

Today is baby's due date. She doesn't seem ready to come out though. We have a doctor's appointment later today so we'll see if my body has made any progress. We'll probably have the doctor strip my membranes, which will sometimes enduce labor. Hopefully it'll get our ball rolling. We'll probably set up an inducment date for sometime next week too.

In the meantime, here's a picture of my 40 week belly!!