1 Week Old!

It's hard to believe that 1 week ago already I gave birth to the most beautiful little girl! Brian and I seriously couldn't have asked for a better baby. She generally eats around 9 then 1 am then around 5am so she lets mommy get alot of sleep for a first timer. She isn't a cry baby either she will just fuss a second to let you know ok I need something and then she's done.

In this past week she has already hung outside in the warm sun and took her first trip to Target (it will be her and mommy's hangout) and to dinner at applebees. She did great, mommy not so much. It's a good thing we have daddy that's for sure!

We're Home

So last night was a much better night than our first. She ate around 11:30 and then went to the nursery for a all of her Minnesota tests and what nots and came back around 3:30 so mom and dad got some good quality sleep. She at again and then back to sleep for about 2 more hours again letting her parents sleep nice and sound. She curled up with daddy for a mid morning nap while mommy got a shower too. We are home now and the dogs are very interested in her but after about 3 minutes she is old news. We are up for visitors if people are wanting to come by, just send me a text when you think you wanna come by!

Day One Complete!

Sleep deprivation here we come! Quinn decided to cluster feed most of the evening and therefor keep her parents up as well. Daddy got a few hours of "sleep" and mommy got a little less but over all we are powering through and trying to keep our energy levels up by eating regularly and walking around. I am so proud of Blair for being a trooper and it is frustrating that I can't do anything when she is crying and wants to eat or when Blair is falling asleep will feeding her from exhaustion. My girls are beautiful!

Quinn Nykkole Becker

SHE IS HERE!!! After 15 minutes of pushing she came out at 5:09 AM 7 lbs. 10 oz. 20 inches long. Mom and Quinn are doing awesome....Blair is finally able to eat so she is much happier and baby is also eating very successfully. We will be up for visitors later in the day just call or text me before u come.

Update......2:10 AM

So Blair and I got a power nap in for about half an hour. We are just taking it easy and watching some movies, doctor just came in and checked her. She is 5 cm, 90% and -1. So she is making good progress but upped the pitocin to try and move things along a little faster. The long and hardest dilating is over now just needing to make some progress! Me blogging and Blair trooping through it!

Update....9:25 PM

Epidural is in and Blair is feeling much much better, they also turned the pitosin down b/c the contractions were intense and right on top of each other. Moving along good on her own and having contractions about 1 1/2 to 2 minutes apart and she can't feel a thing, she is 3 cm, 50% effaced and -1.....this is what her epidural happy face is.....too bad I didn't get the before shot but I had the mask and head drape on and keeping her focused by being in front of her.

Update.....7:00 PM

Pitosin has been running for a while now and contractions are getting stronger and more frequent....doctor will be coming in soon to check how far along she is and see the progress. Keep checking the blog for updates....

Update......5:27 PM

Minimal progress so We are starting the pitosin drip to progress her labor....baby is still doing just fine and Blair is being a champ. Depressing to watch ANOTHER Viking loss in the hospital but I'm more excited to see her!

Update.....2:36 PM

Blair tested positive for strep B so she is getting anti-biotic for that....had a little trouble with the first IV but the second one is doing good. Just waiting for the Mede to be done running in and then we are going to get up and walkabout to see if we can get this labor progressing a little more. If she isn't progressing then we will be looking at petosin.....we will update again when something changes!

We're in Labor!!!

Early this morning Blair's water broke and it has continued to leak throughout the morning. The doctor has verified that she is ruptured and we have been walking to try and progress some labor, we will be keeping this blog updated as much as possible......wish us luck!

Dr. Appt. Update

So we went in to our Dr. today for a routine checkup and everything looks good so far. We have to wait on the results of our Strep B test but the Stress Test and Fluid pockets around baby were all given a thumbs up. I'm progressing on dilation, only 2 cm but at least it's progressing. She said baby girl is fully dropped and facing toward my spine, so we are just waiting on her big debut. The Dr. says another 2 weeks of cooking. :( 2 longest weeks of my life. But I'm super busy getting everyone's hair done and getting my checklist and house in line that it should hopefully go by fast. I'm booked out tell next Tuesday with haircuts and colors, and then to prep my house again for our baby to come and then to take my last week of relaxing and catching up on as much sleep as possible.

Water Fun!

Since we have a rather small house and small yard it's nice to get the pups out on an adventure once in awhile and boy do they LOVE the water and of course fetch! So here are some photos from our day out to the green bridge!

Lucy "let me grab on so it looks like I got it too."

Lucy doesn't quit have the shape that Sadie does when it comes to swimming and fetching a distance. She started spoiled and Sadie started trained.haha But she loves to be right along Sadies side taken credit for the catch and when she gets alittle tired she just grabs hold of Sadie's collar and Sadie helps her ashore. It's pretty cute!
Shake, Shake, Shake

"Wait up Sadie!"

36 Weeks

Yep this is late yet again..but I just can't find the time to blog when I have a million other things to do to prepare for the new little bundle of joy that's about to enter into our crazy lives. When I say a million things btw that really means I have nothing but I feel as if I should wash walls one more time or organize the cupboards again or maybe start one more project...If you've been preggers you know what I mean! I have a dr. appt on Tuesday and hopefully we will hear some good news that it won't be much longer!! Fingers crossed folks! But it has to be after the 23rd I need a hair cut REALLY bad! haha. Oh and yes I had botox injections before Brian took this picture and that's why my face is so shocked looking! jk. My eyes can barely stay open these days!

34 Weeks

34 Weeks!

Only 5 weeks to go..I'm ready and so is Brian!

Photos by Robin..has a nice ring to it!

Here are some fun photos that robin took of brian, me and baby-2-be

This is one of my favs!

This is my one of my favs!

Thanks Robin we LOVE them all!

Baby Callan sitting on his cousin. Perfect place to set a baby and give your arms a rest when you have no upper arm strength! He seemed to enjoy it.

32 week update

Well we had another dr. appointment on Tuesday evening and "everything is beautiful" says Dr. Johannson actually so good that he doesn't need to see me weekly like they ask of most expecting mothers. So I've got about 2 appointments left, 1 if she waits tell October! She is dropped and her head is down in my pelvis and I'm feeling great! And I'm feeling the pressure! Brian and I are still sticking with our Oct. 9th original due date but thinking we are gonna see her sooner! If we are gonna meet her sooner I'm rooting for Oct. 3rd at the earliest please! As ready as I am to be done being pregnant I'm not quite ready for her to come out! haha.

I have kept track of my inches around the belly and actually instead of getting bigger it's getting smaller but Dr. says its nothing to worry about. I went from about 42 1/2 to about 40 3/4. So I'm guessing it has to do with her head being down now. Which makes me a little nervous that our baby girl is going to have a giant head just like Daddy! :( As you all know Brian's head is full of knowledge..not.

Well that's all for now!

32 Weeks

So I'm 32 weeks now according to our very first Dr. appointment. But as everyone knows Dr. Johannson says we will see her in Sept. Part of me is glad cause I'm ready to be done. I'm not uncomfortable I'm just ready to meet baby girl Becker and move about freely.haha. But another part of me would love for her to wait tell October because Brian and I have so many life milestones in October it would be fun to have our first child also in October to add to those milestones. She just going to make her debut whenever she's ready..and I'm just fine with that. I'm not posting a photo this time because Robin, Brian and I ventured out yesterday and took baby bump photos and as soon as Robin hides all the flaws...jk..I will post them! We had fun, we went to the plummer house of course and took a few in their flower garden and then headed off to Oxbow Park to take the rest. We did them all with in an hour and a half including traveling. Thats good time folks.

Camping Adventure

So Brian and I need a vacation really bad but it's way to expensive to take one of those glorious trips to the tropics or even to stay the night in the cities anymore. So we chose camping that way Sadie and Lucy can have a vacation as well and we don't have to pay for a baby/dogsitter! So off to Beaver Creek State Park we go! It was actaully a nice weekend to it wasn't super hot and we were on a shaded campsite and we had ac in the camper..bonus! The girls liked the vacation but they really liked lounging in the camper taking their daily naps in the ac. The park has little trout streams that run through out it so we thought it would be the perfect swim area for the pups and we were right they LOVED it! Sadie was like a pup again, running back and forth and fast as possible through the water and Lucy just had no idea what to do so she just followed Sadie as usual and had a blast. I was scared to let Lucy off the leash cause this was her first offical lake swim and I didn't want her to go were I couldn't help her if needed. But after seeing she was only going and doing whatever Sadie did we let her off to enjoy her freedom.

Lucy had to be rinsed off cause she was full of little green weedy things.

Sadie May

Lucy Marie

Shake, Shake, Shake..btw the water was freezing!

Lucy thinks camping is just to much hard work. Because she has to check everyone and everything out and that is alot of work for a puppy I guess.

Great shot of me making some eggs and sausage for breakfast! Yummy!

Camping trip wouldn't be complete for Brian without some sort of TV/IPad movie rig-up!

Again Ipad addict..but don't worry folks we were only in the camper briefly we actually did go sit outside and make hotdogs and smores and enjoy the nature of camping!

30 Weeks

30 Weeks

So this is only like 2 weeks late but better late then never. My bump is still measuring very close to what it was at previous weeks. My hips however are spreading and I can totally tell. Been feeling pretty good except when we have our unexpected lucky days where stress over comes me. Like AC breaking, basement flooding and a few other events. That's just say I'll be so happy when baby Becker arrives and takes up all my thoughts and time and just makes everything so exciting. We had our first prenatal class on Monday night and it was interesting to see all the different pregos. We are all so close in due dates. Brian and I are the first and the latest was Oct. 16th I believe. So we are going through about the same things.

So now that I have a break and time to blog I will update with out camping adventure and 32 week update so check it out!