It's a Girl!!!

Lauren Elyse Carey

March 27th, 2009 @ 1:06pm

7 pounds 13 ounces and 20 1/4 inches long

I do realize that this is pretty old news, but I wanted to have a post with her stats! Everything went great with delivery, nothing was as bad as I had remembered with the c-section (well a few things were) but the most important thing was that she made it into the world safely. She is so beautiful and we sure are enjoying having a baby girl. Peter loves his little sis and we're just adjusting to life with 2. It is great fun! I love this picture and the little smile she has on her face, I hope it's a sign that she'll be one happy little girl. For those that don't know why we're calling her Elyse, it's for a couple of reasons, #1 it's the name we really love and wanted to name her in the first place, but we couldn't come up with a middle name that we liked and that flowed nicely. So the #2 reason is that Cliff goes by his middle name and why not have a cool connection with her father. So her name is Lauren Elyse, but we just call her Elyse!

2 more days!!

It's hard to believe that in just 2 days from now we get to meet the newest member of our family. Wow, it does feel like it's been 9 months, but at the same time it has gone really fast too! We are really looking forward to see who this little person is, not only boy or girl, but looks, personality all the fun things you get to discover about a new baby.

I'm schedule for a 12:30pm c-section on Friday, March 27th. So we'd love your prayers as this new life makes his or her debut in the world!

We'll keep you posted...

feeling a little sentimental

I've been contemplating that my baby boy isn't going to be my baby much longer. He is growing so much and is so aware of things and interactive, but when he crawls up in my lap and snuggles...well nothing is better than that right? He is such a fun little boy and I kind of feel bad to rock his world with bringing a new baby into his life. I know he will never remember life before this sibling, but I can't help but feel a little sentimental!

Here are a few pictures looking back over the last 20 months!

The hospital...just a few hours old.
3 Months, boy is he cute!About 6 months.
1 year old!
About 15 months!
18 Months!As the end of this pregnancy nears I know that the next several months are going to fly by! I look forward to watching the relationship between Pete and this little one. We pray each day for them to have a special bond and friendship. But, I think there is just something special about the child that made you a mommy for the first time. Someone told me once that her first made her a mom and the second child made them a family, I think that's a great way to look at it.

SD Vacation

We got to get away to San Diego just a couple of weeks ago and here are some of our highlights! It was so nice down there, the weather was perfect. Just to be able to be outside and enjoy the warmth and have so much sunshine was really great.

We went to the zoo and the beach, went for walks by the bay, ate at all our favorite restaurants and just had a really relaxing week. Cliff had to work the first couple of days, but Peter and I enjoyed ourselves until he could join us for the family fun.
This was a really cute playgroud that was just down from our hotel right on the bay. Peter loved playing there! He looks out at the playground by our house right now and points like he wants to go and I tell him it will just be a couple of months to let all that snow melt!! So he was pretty happy to get to go down the slide and swing.

1st Haircut

I took Peter to get his first haircut a few weeks ago, I couldn't get any smiles out of him, but at least he didn't cry!! He looked pretty handsome after he the cut, although I think he already needs another one.

1st Snow

We let Peter enjoy the snow after church last night, he loved it!! It really looked like he was amazed at the snow falling from the sky.

Peter was pretty impressed with the snow! He didn't mind it coming down on him at all, of course it was a nice light snow fall too! He wasn't a big fan of the cold snow on his hands when he fell down and caught himself with his hands!

Family Photo Fun

The whole Carey Family

Peter and his photo shoot with dad.This is Jake, Peter's oldest cousin. Jake will be 18 in January and Cliff and him have had a special relationship for a long time. He was at camp the week Peter was born so he was the first of the Carey family to get to see and hold Pete. We told Jake to take Peter over for the 'boys picture' and he looked at us like we were crazy and said he didn't know how to hold him. I told him if he could hold him when he was 5 days old he could hold him now! So this is how he carried him, just like when he was about a week old! Pretty cute! Peter wasn't sure what to think.

Here are the boy cousins, and Peter and Jakes bonding below. I like this one where they look like they've both got their hands in their pockets looking cool.

Peter was really taken with Jake, I think this one is very sweet!