First Christmas excitement

Here is Ansley on her first Christmas. All in all...I think she was unimpressed with all the hoopla. Maybe next year.

MC Snow

Hamish loves it when Ansley wears her rapper outfit. We think her name should be MC Snow. What do you think? Here she is showing off some of her latest dance moves

Bath time!

Ansley's first bath was a total blast...well, not really. She actually screamed her head off. Apparently she isnt a big fan of being clean.

Dirty baby
Clean baby

First Thanksgiving

This year our friends Al, Beth and baby Patrick came over for Thanksgiving. Since we weren't traveling to see our families it was great having our friends around.

Plus, since Ansley and Patrick will eventually be dating we figured it was a good idea to introduce them early on :) Beth loved Ansley a little to much. We were worried she might smuggle her out of our house in her purse. Al is a great cook and made all of the side dishes. We definitely had quite the spread.

I picked up some tasty desserts from the company I work for (Thanks La Boulange!). Who doesn't love gourmet sweets. All in all I think Ansley had a great first Thanksgiving. Next up, Christmas with the Eislers!

Grandma Kates first visit

My Mom came to visit for the weekend and had a great time with little Ansley. I have to say, Mom is the baby whisperer. She got Ansley to sleep in the bassinet in about 2.5 seconds. Something we had been trying to do but the little one wasn't having it. Good job Grandma!

Ansley and friends

Ansley had tons of visitors at the hospital. Here are a few shots

Auntie Kerry

Auntie Sandy

Auntie Nicole

Uncle Tim

Uncle Al Auntie Beth

Marion Sara Marianne & Scott

How it all went down...

Since both of our families live out of town I though it would be fun to do a little photo montage of how Ansley's birthday went.
11/13- 6:30am
Water breaks as soon as I wake up. Time to call the Doctor. She tells us to head down to L&D. It's go time! At the Hospital. Getting checked in. Sweet gown! Dr says I'm 2cm dilated. Now we are just waiting for something to happen. If my contractions don't get started in next 12 hours they will start me on pitocin. The nurse checking in on us. Even though my water broke, contractions weren't really starting so we had a lot of waiting to do. Hamish worked. I relaxed Did a little Internet browsing (thank God for free WiFi) We hung out and went on lots of walks to try speeding things along (which didn't work..boo) Hamish had a craving for a root beer float later in the night so went across the street in search of RB and ice cream. YUM! I got put on pitocin at about 8pm and within a few hours I was 5cm. Here I am giving the hi-5! Even though I don't look excited I was because I knew it was epidural time!

Got some drugs = got some sleep. Finally. The nurses said that when I was fully dilated you would be able to see it on my face. I think this pic says it all...10cm and time to push! After 1.5 hours of pushing...shes here!

11/14/09 - 9:50am

Sweet Ansley