2 week appointment

Adler had her two week follow appointment with the doctor today. she weighed 9lbs 4oz and measured 21 1/2 inches long. so gained almost a pound and grew an inch. doctor said she looks good and that we don't have to return till her two month appointment, we can skip the one month appointment unless we need something. so thumbs up all around Adler is growing and developing the way she needs too.

monkey toes

Adler's feet are something else. from about the minute she came out she has had what daddy and i have dubbed "monkey toes." they are extremely long toes that she can spread very far apart. since she can spread them so far apart this trait is obviously not from her daddy since daddy can barley get a credit card between his toes when he tries to spread his toes. the toes must come from mommies side of the family, i am thinking uncle Cole might be the closest comparison. we will just have to wait and see if she grows into these toes?!?!?!

coincidence?

coincidence? i think not. the first week alone on tv we heard or saw the name Adler in many of our programs. it has been two characters last names and the name of a hotel in a show. before this i have never noticed the name so prevalently used, although i knew it was on our "list." Now that she is out and we have announced to the world our wonderful baby girls name now it is the cool name and everyone is using it. :)

proactive

well i think that Adler and mommy can pose for the BEFORE picture in a Proactive commercial. unfortunately Adler has dozens of white heads all over her cheeks and chin. mommy has the deep cysts that are red, inflamed, and painful. both types are hormone induced and there is nothing either of us can do about it. i just hope this is not a precursor for Adler in her teen years. I know how bad acne sucks.

colon-blow

oh my word!! when Adler has a fart or a poop it sounds just like they exaggerate in tv and the movies when someone is accidentally overdosed with colon-blow. it is loud and totally discussing sounding. it makes me giggle every-single-time. when it comes to cleaning it up it is normally not that bad it is just the noise of the event that is so gross.

missing wedding ring

i miss my wedding ring. i miss wearing it, and feeling its heft on my hand. at about 7 months my feet started to swell up and i took the precautions of removing my wedding ring/band so just in case my hands did swell up that we did not have to have my ring cut off. unfortunately my hands are still slightly swollen and i cant put the ring back on. so it sits in the safe until i am able to slide it back on a (non-chubby) finger.

coloring

Adler has mommy's coloring. she is fair skinned and gets red very easily. she has light brown hair with golden highlights more like mommy's was when she was little. just like her older sister she has blue eyes. the jury is still out on who she looks like. i think is must be a total mash-up because i don't see defiantly me or definitely daddy.

Happy Turkey Day

This Scott family is so very blessed to have welcomed Adler into our family this month. We are also so very thankful for our ever growing little girl Rigby. we are so very thankful everyday for the blessings God has bestowed on our family.

stump-be-gone

yesterday on Adler's 1 week birthday she lost her stump. the purple end of her emblicord fell off sometime in the afternoon. since she was wearing a dress/nightgown and held by almost everyone we are not sure when or where it happend. one panty change it was there, and the next it was gone. we have looked all around to see if we can find it but no avail. daddy and i both blamed Harley, and that we think he ate it. **gross**

Adler's birth story

Alder is now a week old so it is about time i created her own site and told her full story. In the early morning hours of the 13th Harley was extremely annoying and Rigby very fussy so i was awake more than i was asleep from midnight to about 6am. I was extremely annoyed and tired. so when Rigby wanted to get up i let her. put her in the living room with cartoons on, and i crawled back into bed. i left the doors open so i could hear her, in case she needed me. after about an hour or so she did come looking for me and was asking for juice so i set her up with breakfast and again crawled back into bed. sometime in here daddy came home and continued to care for Miss Rigby and let mommy sleep. at about 8:30a there was nothing i could do about it i had to potty so i had to get up. while on the toilet i had a weird sensation, i assumed it was my water breaking but as i was already peeing it was hard to tell. it felt nothing like when my water broke for Rigby so i was unsure. again unlike Rigby i had no contractions yet. so i went ahead and made some toast and sat on the couch to eat. after about 10 mins i had my 1st contraction and told daddy it was time to go. daddy started calling auntie Avril to watch Rigby and mommy started to slowly move towards getting dressed to get out of the house. the hospital bag was already in the car. so as soon as auntie Avril showed up we were on the road. it was a Tuesday morning so we had to contend with everyday rush hour. the drive was getting hairy as the contractions were very consistent and every 5-7 mins. we did arrive at the hospital and mommy had per-registered but that did not matter we still had to wait almost 10 min in admitting as mommy screamed in pain. finally a nurse wheeled mommy up to labor and delivery. after slipping into a lovely hospital gown mommy had a check and found out that she was already 9cm dilated and past the time to receive pain killing drugs. this was the most upsetting thing i think i have EVER heard. i was so very upset i kept whining, bitching, and moaning that there had to be something to give me. no luck. my doc showed up and about 10 mins later i started pushing. i was not very good at this. the pain was so overwhelming that i could not concentrate on anything else. eventually to help relieve pain mommy got a cather and eventually got cut to help get Adler out. at 10:55a Adler Nicole Scott arrived and mommy could breath a little easier as the extreme pain was over. daddy did the honors and cut the cord and mommy got to snuggle with the new arrival as the doc did her job and sewed mommy up.