5 Month pics

Helping Dad work is fun!
My first dress!
I'm a tummy time champ now!
Hanging with Mom...aren't we cute?

4 month snapshots

Big smiles
Tummy time is hard work!
Sophie the Giraffe is my favorite!

3 month update

Hanging with Ethan.
My favorite sleep spot: Dad!
I love my swing.
My first tooth, yes at 3 months!!

Wow...babies take a lot of time!!!

Whew! How embarrassing! I was so intent on blogging every few weeks or at least each month and updating everyone on how Pippa is growing and changing. HA! How little I understood about motherhood, right???

Well, PJ is three months old, I am just starting to work part time again (from home thankfully), and it is finally time to sort through what seems like a thousand pictures on my camera and get to updating!!

The next few posts will be a bit out of order...but I'll put highlights from month one, month two and month three...then try to keep up from there!

We are all happy and healthy, and I can't wait to start sharing photos and milestones with you all once again.

Pippa Jane Arrives!!

Well, November 29 was my due date...and the day our baby girl decided to make her appearance! Patrick and I decided to take a long walk on the beach that morning, then still feeling antsy we decided to go downtown to do a bit of shopping and have lunch. During lunch I sort of realized I didn't feel all that great..and that maybe the contractions I was having were no longer the braxton-hicks kind. We decided it was prudent to be a bit closer to home if this was "it". This photo is me right when we got home from lunch, about 2:45 in the afternoon...and only about 5 hours from when our daughter was born!!!

Everything happened so fast; once the contractions started they came on strong and close together. Patrick waited about an hour to call our midwives thinking we'd be in for a long day and probably night, but when the first midwife, Alice, arrived around 4:30 I was so far along that instead of all the stuff to help me through labor she got busy setting up for the baby's arrival!

A few short, but intense hours later our baby girl was here!

Pippa Jane Redman

born 11/29/2008 at 7:50pm

7 lbs 1 oz

20.5 inches

Now the waiting game!

Well, I am in week 40...and just waiting, waiting, waiting! I am completely off work, and the house is reorganized and ready again after the craziness of the fire. Now what? My company gave Patrick and I the jogging stroller we wanted (which was a GREAT surprise!), so we put that together last night. This week I have also cleaned all the floors in the house, vacuumed all the furniture, organized a few dresser drawers...and this moring I baked banana bread!

Doesn't this baby know she is supposed to arrive this week???

New slide show through week 38.