2 Week Checkup

We took Brinley for her two week well child exam the other day. She is now 8 pounds 10 ounces and 21 1/4 inches long. Her pediatrician said she is doing wonderful. We are adjusting to life with a newborn and loving every minute of it. She is such a sweet baby, she is sleeping six hours at a time during the night which is great for mom! She seems to know who her mommy and daddy are and it melts my heart. Here are some pictures from the last couple of weeks.

Great Grandma Marx came to see Brinley but she was a little fussy at the time

Aunt Jan and Uncle Steve sent this adorable outfit all the way from Hawaii! It is a little big but I loved it so much I wanted her to wear it right away.

Oops, Mom woke Brinley up from her nap with the camera flash.

Daddy is home today to hang out with us and we are loving it.

Brinley is not so sure about this tummy time thing

Belly Pictures

I have just a few minutes before Brinley wakes up and needs to be fed so I thought I would finally post some of the maternity shots that we did with Kate Moss of Peekaboo photos. She is also doing our newborn shoot in about a week. Here are a few of our favorites. Isn't my husband hot!!!

One week old

Our little milk drunk monkey!

Well it has been one week since brinley was born, and we are happy to report that she is doing great. Mom is doing great too. We have to many pictures to post but I will try to take the best to post. I don't think we could have wished for a better child, I think about her all day at work and can not wait to rush home to see her and mom. There is one thing that she does not like and that's a bath, she throws a fit and screams like crazy! Poor mom has been up for about a week straight taking care and feeding her. She does a great job taking care of her. We also want to thank family and friends again for all the love and support not to mention all the food. Thanks again we are so grateful.

Home at Last

We got to bring our precious little girl home today. She is healthy and doing well. We couldn't be happier. Thanks for all the well wishes and visits and flowers, we appreciate it. Here are some more pictures of her.

Brinley Madeline Preslar is here!

Well I guess I will tell everybody what happened. It started at 2:00 am when Amber's water broke, we came to the hospital and amber started having contractions, but she was still at a 1. At 9:30 she was a 2 and the doctors decided to give potosin and the epidural. I left to go home to feed the dogs and by the time I got back she was at a 9. She just needed me to leave her alone for a bit. She pushed for about one and a half hours. When Brinley was on her way out we realized that she had a bowel movement inside the womb. "Panic" That's when I panicked. The doctor called the people from N.I.C.U to come and get ready. Brinley came and was quickly rushed to a new table were they had to shove tubes into her stomach, 4 different times, she had a lot of meconium in her and they did not want it to get into her lungs .Try to imagine me in between my daughter, who is having tubes shoved down her throat and my wife on the the bed bleeding, I was not prepared, for about 5 minutes i was in hell and heaven at the same time. But everything went ok thanks to the doctors who were incredible the whole time. Now at 9:15 pm she is healthy and has no issues that are critical. Now for the stats, she is 20 1/2 inches and weighs 7 pounds and 11 ounces of pure joy!

Nesting

As most of you know, I am not the greatest housekeeper in the world. I have always been a messy person, pregnancy hasn't changed that. The wives tale goes, once the nesting instinct kicks in then you will go into labor within the next few days. So does it count if your husband's nesting instinct kicks in? Aaron has been a cleaning and organizing machine today. I cleaned out a couple of cupboards the other day but I don't really think that counts...

In other news, my cute friend at work who is due the day before me went into labor last night. She is having her baby today. I am so excited for her but I am super jealous too, I am waiting oh so impatiently for this baby to be born.

Happy New Year

Well Christmas and New Years have come and gone and I am still pregnant! We had a great holiday and just yesterday we were regretting not taking any pictures while family was in town. That is probably our only resolution for 2009, take more pictures! Once this little girl arrives I am sure we will have much more motivation to take pictures!

She is due in about 2 weeks. I am so excited to meet her. I am trying to hang in there but I have been a big grump lately. Thanks for putting up with me Aaron!