Leaving the hospital

Colt is ready to go home! His daddy has strapped him in nice and tight.

Mom looks a bit tired but dad looks good and that is Colt in the carseat!

We left the hospital today just a little before 10 this morning. We have not slept much in the last two nights so I know we are going to be really tired tonight but at least we will have our own bed to sleep in.

Colt Mires Pemberton

Colt Mires Pemberton arrived June 25th at 7:37 pm weighing 8lbs 9oz and 22.5 inches long.

Dad and Colt have already bonded.

This was taken about 3 hours after he was born.


Mom and Colt, he is about 1hour old here.

I went into the hospital Monday morning at 6 and by 10 I was in full blown labor. At about 4:00 I finally gave in and got an epidural at that point I was 4cm dialated. My dr. came in at 6:00 and checked me and I was ready to push! I pushed for about an hour and a half and we had our little boy. This entire experience has been such a rush of emotions for me and Dave but it has been so wonderful. I can not imagine loving anything (except my husband) as much as I love this little guy. So far he is doing great, he has taken to breastfeeding very well and we are at home and trying to figure out a routine. Thanks so much to all of you for your many calls and messages, I will try and return all of them as we get settled. In the mean time keep checking back here and I will continue to update photos.

Colt Mires Pemberton

Colt Mires Pemberton

June 25, 2007 at 7:37 pm
8lbs 9oz 22.5 inches

40 weeks and counting

Hopefully these are the last pictures of my pregnant belly that I will have to post. If this baby does not come by the end of this week I will be posting pictures of me crying! Dave took these before we left for church this morning, since we are both assuming he will be here this week we have spent the entire sunday in "date" mode. We started the day by going out to breakfast followed by church, after that we went to the movie "Knocked Up" which seemed somewhat appropriate considering I will probably be going through that same thing in the next couple days. Of course after the movie I wanted an ice cream cone so we went and got some ice cream. Dave does not know it yet but I am taking him on a nice long walk tonight, I am sure he will be thrilled when I tell him:) My plan is not to post again until I have a baby to show everyone, please pray that it will happen soon and that everything will go smoothly and we will be healthy.!

My nieces at 10 weeks

Perry now weighs 9lbs 14 oz

My sister Ann, Reese, Me and Perry

Reese now weighs 8 lbs 13 oz. I love her red hair and big blue eyes!

Ann and her mini-me Reese.

My sister came to Walla Walla this past week for a visit with the twins. They are now 10 weeks old and are starting to smile. They are both so sweet and precious. It was the first time they had left Spokane since they were born and they both did really well. They are anxiously awaiting their cousins arrival which should be any day now.

One week to go!

This picture was taken when I was 36 weeks pregnant.

I have had this hope all along that maybe this little guy would come early but here I am at 39 weeks and still no baby! I went to the doctor today, I am 2cm and 50% effaced a big progression from last week where I was barely 1cm. She tried to schedule an induction for this week but the hospital was full tomorrow and wednesday and she already had a scheduled c-section for Thursday so we were out of luck! I will see her again next Monday and if I still have not had him then she will most likely induce me sometime next week. At any rate I feel pretty confident that in the next two weeks I will be holding my new son. I can not believe that its almost here, I feel like I have waited for so long and now its finally going to happen! In the meantime I am going to continue trying all the "labor tricks" and see if I can get something to happen this week.

A couple of pics and an update

Nope that's not my baby! We had a baby shower for my friend Jill Meliah who is due at the end of July last weekend and this is my friend Jill Carter's little girl Peyton who was born in April and my good friend Audra.

Jeni, Me and Audra. We have been friends since 8th grade. This was taken at Jill's shower as well and Jeni is Jill's sister.

UPDATE
I have not posted in awhile but though I would give everyone an update on what is going on. We had an ultrasound when I was 37 weeks pregnant to get a look at his size, they estimated him to be about 6lbs 14oz and my doctor said they gain about an ounce a week after 36 weeks. That means if I carry him to my due date he will be 8.5-9lbs depending how accurate the ultrasound was. I knew all along he was not going to be small I just hope the ultrasound was pretty close to accurate because I do not want to be delivering a 10lb baby!! I go back to the doctor on Monday and she is going to talk to us about if we should go ahead and induce within the next week and a half or if I just want to wait a little bit longer to see if it will happen naturally. I have been doing everything I can think of to try and start labor but nothing works. My good friend Audra has been waking up at the crack of dawn with me to walk for 2 hours before work starts everyday, I have been mowing our lawn weekly with our push mower, doing some yardwork, helping Dave work on the buildout at our building, squats, jumping jacks, last week I even went over to Audra's dad's house and I jumped on his trampoline! All of this has resulted in maybe a total of 3 braxton hicks contractions a day. The last day of school was this past Thursday and now I am even more anxious to have him so I do not have to waste a minute of my summer break without spending time with him. I will try and update with a better pregnancy picture soon.

35 weeks

How much bigger can I get? I am hoping he comes early but not holding my breath!

Dave's Man-Bag

Dave has been telling me that there is no way he will ever carry a diaper bag because they look like a purse. About a month ago he sent me a picture of a camo diaper bag, but I told him it was too expensive. I finally decided that since I have been getting all these cute baby gifts that I should buy him a father's day gift. So I ordered it and figured I would hide it for him until Father's Day. Go figure the delivery truck brings the package at 7:00 on a Friday night while I am upstairs so of course Dave opens up the box and the next thing I know he is going through the baby room looking for stuff to load into "his" diaper bag. At least something got him excited about this baby:)

Family "Surprise" Shower

Well I got a huge surprise last weekend, my mom had arranged a surprise baby shower for me with all of my family. It was such a wonderful and fun time, everyone left there husbands at home and my mom, grandma, aunts, sister, cousins and cousins-in-law came from Oregon, Montana, Idaho and Western Washington to Walla Walla to surprise me.

My family from left to right: Marni, Aunt Donna, Samantha, Mo, Aunt Debbie, Jodi and Jenn. My mom, cousin Jaime and grandma are missing from the photo. We had a onesie decorating party, my mom had bought a bunch of blank onesies and everyone decorated them. I must have about 30 onesies and most of them are pretty cute. I did not get any pictures of the ones that Marni made but Dave voted on the 3 best and 3 worst and all 3 of hers were voted the worst. They were the joke of the party!

Jenn and her homeade bug onesie. All of Jenn's onesies turned out really cute!

Samantha, Marni and Jaime.
In the background is the carseat that my Aunt Donna and her family got us. This carseat is for when he outgrows his infant one.

Marni and Me. I love my little sister, she has been so generous to us with this baby. Everytime I come home I have a new box waiting for me and the majority of them have been from her. I can't wait for this little guy to meet his Aunt Marni or as Dave puts it "Crazy" Aunt Marni.

This is the painting that my cousin Samantha made for us to put in his bedroom. It goes perfect with all the colors and of course Dave loved the idea of it being a fish.

Long weekend! I wish I could do more of this right now, my cousin Jodi snapped this when Byson and I were sleeping. Everyone keeps telling me I should enjoy my sleep right now because I will not get any once the baby gets here however I am having a hard time finding the time to sleep with work, coaching track and all these baby celebrations.