Look at that hair!

Wow! Reese arrived with so much hair! She is such a beautiful baby and she does have some similar features to Sawyer, but when I look at her with all that dark hair I think "how did I get Joana's baby?"

Welcome baby Reese

Oh boy was I ready for her to come out! After several false starts (I thought I was going into labor at least 4 times in the week prior to October 27th), I finally had real contractions on Sunday, Oct 27th. The contractions weren't regular and varied from 3 minutes apart to 10 minutes apart. It was extremely frustrating because it seemed like I was making no progress. I made pancakes for breakfast, I had Hani take me to Costco to distract me, I took a bath. Nothing made me contractions regular. After a few talks with my midwife I realized I probably wouldn't be delivering that day and would have to go to my scheduled induction on the 28th. Ugh! Around lunch time the contractions became way more intense and I got very nauseated. This scared me. I remembered Joana telling me that she became nauseated when she went through transition late in her labor. I decided to have Hani take me into the hospital to get checked, because I was so frustrated that my contractions weren't progressing and I didn't think I could handle the intensity of the pain much longer. So we went in and the nurses after hearing my story, took me to triage and treated me as if they thought I was going home after being evaluated. The nurse took her time taking my vitals and then finally checked to see how dilated I was. That is when things started moving. She said "oh my, you are 8 cm dilated, and this is your second baby, you could deliver at any minute, we need to get you in a room!" Thank goodness! I was admitted at 4 p.m. and delivered Reese Amelie 3 hours later. It was a much more relaxed and easier experience than with Sawyer. Only 25 minutes of pushing instead of 3.5 hours! It really helped that she had a nice average size head and only weighed 8 lbs instead of 9 lbs 6 oz! I am so happy not to be pregnant anymore.

I'm delivering paaaaaaackages!

Sawyer has really started using his imagination to entertain himself over the last couple of weeks. His fire truck toddler bed has been reimagined into all sorts of other vehicles. Sometimes it's a tractor and he is a farmer. He gets in and out delivering hay to all of the animals on the farm. Some days it's a garbage truck and he gets in and out picking up everyone's "garbage". But the most common, and his favorite is playing "PS delivery truck". He loves to be a UPS man and drive all over delivering "paaaaaaackages" to his stuffed animals. (for some reasons packages is said with and exaggerated Boston accent.) All of the hay, garbage and packages come in the form of books. It is so fun to see his imagination come to life and be part of his make believe scene.