Pics from the past couple of days

Luke bought some boy nuks...oh well! :)

This last picture was from Thanksgiving......that is the last newborn outfit she wore....a growing baby girl!

Happy Thanksgiving

We hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving!

We spent Thursday at Luke's parents house and had a nice time. Aubrie was able to see her Great Grandma Joyce and Gerry. Then on Friday she got to meet her Cousin's Charlie and Willy and Abby who is in Ireland....Aubrie Skyped for the first time :)

We headed to the lake with my family on Friday and had a great time. A nice big dinner on Friday and then games of course. Then on Saturday Luke, Sari, Ryan and my Dad went to a game farm Pheasant hunting and Aubrie and her Grammy and I stayed back and hung out. Everyone came back and Aubrie got to take a nice long nap withe her Uncle Ryan.

We had a great weekend.

The pictures above were taken by Kaleigh from Paisley Ann Photography, http://www.paisleyannphoto.blogspot.com/

Sari found her online and she was looking for baby models. We can't wait to see the rest of the pics, but the couple above are a sneak peak for you.

Have a great weekend everyone. I am hoping to get Christmas up in our house this week! :)

Pics from this week.

My baby girl is going to be 5 weeks old on Thanksgiving.

She loves her nuk!!

Some of my favorite pictures

I am at my parents and their computer will let me upload pictures! Hooray, however I don't have any current ones really.

Here are a couple of my favorites from her first couple days of life :)

My Papa and Aubrie

Aubrie's cute room decorated for her arrival and of course her doggies waiting for her.

I have been HORRIBLE at blogging....I know....

Aubrie is doing great! She is a good eater and sleeping 7 hours at night! She eats about every 2-3 hours during the day so I think that helps her for the nighttime. She has started to really focus in on faces and will even smile here and there.it is so fun!

Luke is busy with hockey. He is coaching again the Wayzata Squirt A team. He is really excited about this year and the new team they have. It has been a little chaotic for him with going back to work, having a new baby at home and hockey, but he seems to be managing pretty well.

I am doing well too. The highlight of my weeks have been the ECFE class we are taking through the Osseo district. Class is on Tues. afternoons for just over an hour. Last week Aubrie was awake the whole time. We sang songs with our babies and just talked about life as a new mom.

This week we are going to Luke's parents on Thursday for Thanksgiving and then up to the lake Friday for the weekend with my parents, Ryan and Sari. They will go hunting Saturday and my mom, Aubrie and I will hang out at the lake. I love being at the lake in the fall, it is so fun.

Hopefully my computer will let my post some pics soon.

Happy Thanksgiving to all!!! This year we are so Thankful for our healthy baby girl!!!

10 days old on 10/31

Almost 3 Weeks

Aubrie will be 3 weeks tomorrow. I can't believe it has already been that long. We are doing great and learning how to take care of a baby :) Luke went back to work on Monday. Yesterday we startd our ECFE class and of course Aubrie slept through the whole thing :) Hopefully next week she will be awake. Today I gave Aubrie a bath all by myself! She LOVES the warm water and being nakey...she is so cute.

I will try and post more pictures, but my computer is not being nice to me for some reason.

I am excited to have these next few months to be a stay at home mom!

Finally, THE STORY

So....Adjusting to a new baby takes time is what I am learning :)

Finally as I sit at my parents and my mom holds Aubrie I am able to update my blog...I see how it is gonna be :)

So....Finally, The Story....

It all started Tuesday, October 19, 2010. I headed over to my parents house after work and my dad did Acupunture on me at about 4:45PM. This is a natural way to induce labor. By 7pm I was starting to cramp. I went to bed telling Luke that something just felt different. Well, I woke up at 1AM having contractions. At first contractions were not to bad, but every 5 mins. I called the doctor and she said we could head in to the hospital, but I felt like these couldn't be real contractions as I could deal w/ them pretty fine, however I couldn't sleep. So I tried to lay back down and at about 4AM my contractions were every 10 minutes and hurt so bad that I was squeezing Luke's hand and craying. I told myself that if they were still happening at 8AM I would call my clinic and make them take me in right away to be checked. Well at 7AM my contractions ceased and I fell asleep. Woke up at 9AM on Wed. Oct. 20th and decided not to head into work. Instead I went to buy Luke a birthday present and then went to my dad's work. Their wonderful massage therapist gave me a 30 min. massage where he did accupressure to help induce labor. After that my dad did another round of accupuncture. (That was at 11AM-12:30PM) Then at 1PM my dad and I had lunch at Leaan Chin's. I then talked to my co-worker and it sounded like she needed some help at work so I headed in. I lasted 1 hour at work and then was starting to feel a little crampy. I left and went home to take a nap. I was lying down by 3:30pm and fell asleep I woke up at about 4:30PM to cramping AKA contractions. At about 5PM I had let the dogs out. I walked out on the deck to let them in and GUSH!!!!!!!! HOOOORAY!!!! MY WATER BROKE!!!

I wanted SO badly to experience my water breaking and I was able to!!! So I called Luke. He had been meeting w/ a client and the person said, "You should probably answer that, I better your wife's water broke." Sure enough it had! Then I called my mom telling her and then I had to figure out how the heck I was getting to MG to my parents house to meet Luke and my Mom to head to the hospital.

My lovely neighbor Erica drove me to my parents at 5pm, meaning she had to once again drive home in rush hour traffic. THANKS ERICA! You're the best!!!

We were on the road by 5:45PM on our way to the hospital. Funny thing, we were SO stuck in traffic. My contractions at that point were 5 mins. apart and did NOT FEEL GOOD!!!

As I was checking in at the hospital my sister arrived with gifts already in hand shouting, "We're gonna have a BABY!!!!" :) She was a great cheerleader!

I got checked in I was dilated to a 3 1/2 and 70 percent effaced. The sent me right into a Labor and Delivery room.

Next thing I knew the whole family was there, Luke, My Mom, Sari and Ryan, Debbie and John and Rebecca. Both our Dad's came that evening after work but we sent them home to get some sleep as it turned out to be a LONG night.

(OK, I know this is a long story)

So....Basically I started dilating and at about 4AM I had stopped at a 6 1/2. The doctor came in and said they had to put an internal monitor on and that I possibly was looking at having a C section if things didn't start to progress. Tears filled my eyes immediately when I heard that and I started praying that she would hurry up and come so I wouldn't have to have a C section. I know some people just LOVE them and that is the way they would always choose to have their baby, but I wanted to experience delivering vaginally.

So finally on October 21, 2010 at about 9:30AM they told me I was ready to start pushing. By this point I had barely slept in 48 hours and was exhausted. My mom left the room and it was just Luke and I and the nurse and doctor. I pushed for 1 1/2 hours and at about 11:09AM baby Aubrie Ruth Peterson came into this world on her Daddy's 29th birthday!

My dear friend Bethany said it best, "The fact that she was born ON Luke's birthday is so beautiful to me. It's like God is saying " I have seen everything that you have been through. And I am giving you both this gift. And just in case you're not sure if she is a gift from me, I am going to give her to you on Luke's birthday."

She is our precious gift!! More pics to come.