Three things Elianna's great at: Yawning...
...flexing...
...and pooping!

Life with Elianna...she's asleep when we're awake, and she's awake when we're trying to sleep. We have a bit of day/night confusion going on. :) Thankfully, she sleep awesome during the day, which apparently means eventually she'll be a good sleeper at night, once she gets things figured out.

Ellie trying to eat her frog towel during her first 'photo shoot'. My cousin Alison came over to take a bunch of pictures outside. Unfortunately it was rather chilly so we had to wrap Elianna up.

Ellie at bathtime - where in the world did those curls come from?? (not us!)

Here she is!

ELIANNA JOY has made her appearance!!!

On March 16th, 2006 after a brief 8 hours of labor (wahoo! and no tearing, either!) Elianna came and stole our hearts away. She weighed 7 pounds 0 oz, is 20 and 3/4 inches long, and has a head full of dark hair. We can't get enough of her, and have fallen into the deep deep love trap of first-time parents. I will try to upload pictures as soon as I have some time (HA! That might be a while, though i'm becoming okay in my skills as a one-handed nurser) but in the meantime, please visit my family's sight (the hildebrandt family ties link) for some of Elianna's first pictures.

Thanks for all your prayers! We have a healthy beautiful girl! YEAHOO!

Hi folks. Here's the latest: I'm officially on 'the list' of people waiting to be induced at Women's Hospital now. So that'll happen either tomorrow or Friday. We hope. We had a non-stress test and ultrasound done on Monday and unfortunately everything looked perfect so they couldn't rush me into ER and pump me full of oxytocin to start contractions. :) We even tried bribing the nurse. Didn't work. No, I'm thankful everything is fine!! Tomorrow we go back for another non-stress test and ultrasound, and Friday I have another doctor's appointment, so really i'm keeping quite busy! So there you have it. The latest. Hope your lives are all progressing a little faster than my cervix. hehe.

Nope. Sorry. Nothing. *sigh*

I had a doctor's appointment yesterday and here's the un-news: I am now TWO tiny centimetres dialated (as my sister Karla encouraged me, only 6 more weeks to go, at 1 cm per week!), my stomach has shrunk from 40 cm to 37 which is GREAT because it means the baby has lowered (not like I couldn't tell by the head stuck in my pelvis) and my right leg is 1 cm thicker than my left, because of the beauties of water retention. It'll be nice to pee that all out. It's pouring rain outside and I've resorted to listening to books on tape to pass the time. Actually, when I'm not hit by waves of impatience or discomfort (like you may have picked up on in my last couple entries), it's been a blessing to have a time of quietness and rest, and time to put everything - my house, my heart, my friendship with God - in order. There's so much peace in deciding to trust Him to bring the baby at the right time - He knows when the three of us are as ready as we'll ever be to have our lives radically changed forever. :) Thank you God!

I thought I had a contraction this morning, but it was just gas. :)

Sorry folks!! No news to report yet. I have officially had one week off of work, and well, I'M READY! I'm bored!! My (very long) "to do" list is DONE! I've thrown out BAGS of stuff (hopefully nothing too valuable) scrubbed the floors, the cupboards, the fridge, baked, cooked, read books, watched a DVD of Trading Spaces, applied for EI...

Get me to the hospital!!

Sanity wavering a bit? Perhaps. :) At least Rob's had reading break all week and he manages to keep me relatively entertained. Anyhow, here's a picture of my suitcase, packed and waiting...