And to all a good night...

We had a nice, quiet Christmas.  Olivia ended up getting to open gifts 4 times, so she was pretty pleased, ha!  She especially liked getting to open Paige's gifts, too.  Some pictures:

 

Paige was especially excited about gifts:

 

 





Olivia really wanted to make a gingerbread house.  We ventured to Wal-Mart one night and grabbed the first box we saw that looked like a gingerbread house.  It turned out to be a chocolate house- one that you melt the chocolate, pour it in a mold, then let it harden.  It actually turned out much better than the gingerbread houses we've made in the past!

 

Paige was really excited about the chocolate house:

 

 

We got Olivia a Cinderella dress with "glass" slippers.  She was pretty excited:

 

 

She was even more excited when her cousins Maggie and Aubrey passed down more princess dresses they had outgrown! 

 

Daddy once again enjoyed putting together all the plastic toys:

 

 

We are so blessed to be close to family!  Thank you to everyone that has visited and sent gifts to our sweet girls!

 



One last Olivia funny.  We had an empty picture frame.  She asked me if she could pick out 2 pictures from the ones we developed when Paige was born.  She wanted to put them in her room.  Here are the 2 pictures she picked out:

 

 

The first one is of her and mom the first time she met Paige.  The second one is of Michael in his scrubs right before the c-section!  Silly girl.

 

Paige's 2 week picture:

 

 

 

Hope you all had a wonderful Christmas!

 



 





 



 

 

Adjusting

I will probably regret this, but Paige is a really good baby!  She only cries if she's hungry and I can usually hear her stirring around to eat before she actually cries.  She's sleeping well at night- I had to wake her up to eat the past 2 nights.  She is jaundiced, but not enough for treatment.  She weighed 5 lbs, 12 oz. when we left the hospital (Sunday), was up to 5 lbs, 14 oz. at her appointment Tuesday and was 6 pounds even Thursday.  I am so relieved to have a baby that is gaining weight appropriately! 
Olivia is in love with her new sister.  However, we have had family visiting since we got home from the hospital.  Michael's mom is leaving today and we have a few days by ourselves before the next shift of family arrives.  She has been getting loads of attention, so not sure how she's going to handle a "normal" day.

Some pictures:

Does this look familiar?

And for fun, here's Olivia at 1 week (tiny little thing!):

 

 

Introducing...

Paige Marie Wexler
12/14/12 at 6:36 a.m.
6 pounds, 2 ounces
18 1/2 inches long
She has lots of dark brown hair and a dimple in her left cheek!  Olivia is in love with her new little sister.  We are both doing great!  More later...

 

We made it!

We will officially have a full term baby!  C-section is scheduled for Friday- hard to believe!  Here is the 9 month picture:

 

Funny fact- I gained much more with Olivia, but I look bigger with this baby.  Oh well, we'll see how much she weighs in FIVE days (can you tell I'm a little nervous- her arrival always seemed so far away and now BAM it's here!).  Dr. Brody guessed her weight at 5 1/2 pounds 2 weeks ago.  I go back tomorrow for my last appointment, hopefully we'll get another guess.

 

Here's the progression pictures:

 





 





Crazy how much your body changes! 

As for Olivia- she is more excited about Christmas than her baby sister.  Well, Christmas and all the family that are coming to visit!  "Elfis" (our elf on a shelf) reappeared last week and she loves looking for him in the morning.  I am not one of these overly creative Elf on a Shelf people.   Our elf usually goes from sitting in the Christmas tree to sitting on the t.v.  I did put him in a bag of sugar one day and she thought that was the funniest thing ever.  She's pretty easy to please right now!

 

We did manage to get our tree up AND outside lights hung. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We rag curled her hair again last week and she insisted on a picture before school:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

She is currently on her second round of antibiotics for bronchitis.  Her cough sounds awful!  She's acting fine, but her doctor decided to try one more round with the baby coming.  Michael and I have been sick, too!  Hopefully everyone is back to normal by Friday.  C-section is scheduled for 5:45 a.m. (I know, how crazy is that?  I tried to get it changed, but no luck).  Next time I post we'll have a new baby!