She Has Arrived!!

Hadley Quinn Barney

8-22-08 10:07 am

7 lbs 3 oz

20 in

Daddy with his girls.

Sydney has been the best big sister. She has been so excited to have her sister come home and will sit there for long periods of time just holding her.

This picture was taken the day after we brought her home. She has been a great baby so far. She doesn't really cry, she kind of squeals. She will be really quiet and then let out this squeal and then silence again. Let's hope that it lasts. For the most part we are doing well, we have had a bit of a problem with jaundice and so we have to take her back every 48 hrs to retest, but nothing else. She sleeps great, eats great and poops great. Everything your new born should do right?!?

She has the darkest hair out of my girls, but she also has the least amount.

As for the labor, there really isn't much to tell, I went in Friday morning at 5:30 am, they started me on the pitocin at 6:30 and said that I was to a 3. The doctor came in and broke my water at 8:00 and said that I was at a 3. At this point I was really regretting having them start me a week early. I thought that I was going to be there all day. Anyway, he broke my water and I got my epidural soon after that. It of course only worked on one side (typical for me). As soon as the anesthesiologist came back to fix it, and gave me an extra dose, the nurse checked me and I was complete and ready to push. Was the epidural worth it? Ask the left side and I am sure you will get a resounding "YES" ask the right and you will get something more like "what epidural?". At least it was quick. In the end I was glad that we had done it that day. Weston didn't have to work and I think that if I had gone into labor on my own and it happened to be a day that he worked(he commutes about 1 hr 15 min), he wouldn't have made it in time. We are glad that she is here and healthy(for the most part). It has been really nice living with my mom and she has been a great help to me especially with having to go back to the hospital every other day. Thanks mom!

Electronic Woes

Every so often we seem to have a few problems all at once. Well, a couple of weeks ago, we hit a rough spot with our electronic devices. Our camera kind of just stopped working, our portable DVD player (= lifesavers in the car) quit reading any disc not just the burned ones, and our cell phone will no longer hold a charge longer than a day. I hate it when things like this happen. Fortunately for us, Weston's brother Jeremy worked for Best Buy and was able to get us a great deal on a new camera. Good thing with this baby coming. The other things will be replaced, it is just a matter of time.

Before the camera completely stopped working, I was able to get just a couple of pictures of Macey's first camping/fishing trip. Over the 24th of July Weston's family always goes camping to Ferron Reservoir. We were lucky and were able to go this year (even being 8mths preg). The girls had a blast but especially Macey. The only problem, in true Macey fashion within a couple of hours of getting there she had scratched her nose on a tree, smashed and cut her finger in the window of the truck and had fallen face first off of the bench in the trailer receiving a nasty goose bump on her cute little forehead. Not to mention the countless times that she landed face first in the dirt. She still wants to go back and asks me daily "when we go fishing again with Keegan?"

On the prego front, for those of you who have patiently been waiting for some kind of a photo posted of me and my big belly, here is the one and only photo that has been taken during this pregnancy. I have not felt well and have felt much, much larger with this one and so have avoided cameras whenever possible. The other night (almost midnight) Weston called my name a when I turned around he had the camera ready (the old one, trying to figure out what was wrong with it) and low and behold, it worked. Not the best picture, but with only 2 1/2 weeks to go, I don't know if there is such a thing. We still don't have a name picked out for this little one, so any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!!!!