miss chubby cheeks scrapbook page

I haven't scrapbooked in forever. Well if you don't count my art journal...which I guess is kinda like a scrapbook. Yesterday I was really needing to do something for myself and have been wanting to do a page about Charlotte before she was born. I couldn't believe I actually got to finish a whole page. I used this sketch from this website which cut some time out. I had to put Charlotte in my maya sling when she got fussy but was still able to play. I don't have very many letter stickers and had gotten these at the dollar store awhile back but they don't like to stick so I ended up having to glue them. I also didn't have anything to use for my journaling so I found a Christmas sticker in a shape I liked and using my light table I traced the shape on a piece of computer paper. I then tacked the computer paper to a piece of cardstock and cut it out. It worked pretty good and didn't really cost me anything.

last night launch

This was the launch of the space shuttle Endeavor. It was the last night launch ever. We had to watch it even though we have seen a ton of them. You can't tell much from the photos.

Update: At the time they were saying that this would be the last night launch but since then they had approved more launches.

Cards and Charlotte

I made these before Charlotte was born but never had time to post them. Also here are some cute photos I took of Charlotte on the 6th.

Last night Richie took the night shift and only woke me up when she was ready to eat. It was nice finally getting close to a full night of sleep. She is getting better the last 2 nights about not being so fussy. Today we both tried to keep her up as much as possible in hopes of her sleeping tonight. Wish us luck :)

Meet Charlotte Amelia

She is finally here! On Monday the 27th they induced me at 8am, at 4pm the harder contractions started and so did severe back labor. We tried every possible position to get her to turn. It got so bad that the back labor wasn't letting up between contractions. I finally let my doctor talk me into an epidural around 4am because my doula and Richie encouraged it since I had lost of my sense of humor and was really having a hard time not breaking down. I got a few hours of sleep and then woke up and pushed for an hour. She had turned half way out of the bad position and there was a chance I could birth her without a cesarean. I had them back off the epidural and pushed again for another hour but she turned and the back labor came back. They had to do a cesarean after all. I was so disappointed and scared but in the end it all didn't matter when I finally got to hold and feed her. I was in the hospital for 5 days which sucked. Over the last two days I can finally move around without much pain. She is eating good and gaining weight rapidly so at least I'm able to breastfeed. She keeps me up all night. She just wants to be held and screams when you try to put her down. I'm functioning on 3 hours of very broken sleep each night. Even in the hospital I couldn't get any sleep unless I would feed her and send her to the nursery until she was hungry again. I ended up doing that just about every night around 4am or 5am so I could get a 2 hour nap. I'm trying to train myself to sleep during the day but find I get restless. I would trade sleep any day for this little one...we love her so very much.