Abigail and Adrianna

Abigail 2004



Adrianna 2007

We're home!

We got to come home today. We could have stayed another day but you can't get any rest in the hospital. Plus, the bed was self adjusting so anytime you moved it would compensate for the shift in pressure and it was really loud and annoying. We are all happy to be home.....a little tired, but very happy. Quintin and Abigail decorated the car. It is really cute. They wrote on the windows where each person sits: Big sister, Little sister, Super Mom and Lucky Man with Fantastic Four written on the back window. There are streamers, bows and signs all courtesy of Abigail, who picked out everything!!

More photos of Adrianna........

Adrianna has arrived!!

We would like to officially welcome Adrianna Elaine Pollard into the world and announce that Abigail is the newest member to the "Big Sister Club." Adrianna was born at 4:09 am today weighing in at 6 lbs 8 oz and 18.8 inches long! She didn't give us anytime for anesthesia so we had her all natural........no medication at all! It is funny because she looks just like Abigail but a smaller version.

Abigail, Adrianna and Mother are doing well. We have now completed our perfect little family!

Our Christmas

Now that things are much calmer, and no more contractions, I can finally put all of our Christmas stuff on the blog. We made cookies for Santa on Christmas Eve and I think Abby had more fun playing with the flour than anything else. Thankfully, even though it gets everywhere it isn't that hard to clean up.

As most little ones do, ours woke up early (5:45) and was ready to see what Santa brought. This year she asked for a scooter and a jack-in-the-box. Not sure where she got the idea for a jack in the box, but because it was kind of a last minute addition, "Santa" had a hard time finding it, but finally came through in the end. We also found this really neat toy that is called the eyeclops. You plug it in to the tv and it has this handheld "eye" that magnifies things 200 times and then projects the image onto the tv. We have been having a great time looking at everything with that. Her favorite is her belly button.

It was a great morning. Pretty much right after we finished opening presents, she asked if the baby was coming. We have been telling her the whole time that the baby would be here after Christmas, so to her that meant right after we opened presents, I guess. That was when the braxton hicks started to get much stronger and we really thought the baby was going to abide by her big sister's schedule. But, we all know she chose to wait a little longer.

I didn't get to make the ham and other yummy food I had planned, so we had a fun time trying to find something to eat for dinner that night. Needless to say, it was the first Christmas that we ever had chinese food for dinner!! Wonder if we will get to have the ham on New Year's? I think I should probably make it sooner, just in case. It doesn't have to be a holiday to have wonderful food...maybe tomorrow.

False Alarm

Well, no baby yet. Just Braxton Hicks that were getting stronger, but didn't amount to much. Abigail was able to get in some practice with her green stopwatch. She was helping me time the contractions.... such a big helper.

Merry Christmas...........

We hope everyone is having a great Christmas. Janice started having pretty regular contractions this morning, so we might have an extra special Christmas present!! We will keep you posted.

Getting Ready

I can't believe it is almost Christmas!! December has really flown by. We did something new this year and went to a tree farm to get our tree. It was a lot of fun. The baby trees were so cute, and Abby kept trying to get us to pick one of those. After looking for a while we finally found the perfect one for us. We had to let it dry out in the garage for the day because it was kind of drizzly outside when we brought it home. I love the smell of a fresh tree! One of our friends had us and two other couples over last weekend for a little baby celebration as all three of us are expecting babies very soon. It was a lot of fun. The older sibling had a great time playing together and the food was wonderful. The one other couple's baby (whose Father is my officemate)actually had the same due date as mine, and I just heard she had the baby this morning. A very healthy 7lb little boy! I wonder if our little Adrianna will come in 2007 or 2008? I am going to the doctor weekly now and although she is very low, there has been no other progress. I wonder if she is going to be like her big sister and like it so much she decides to stay in a little longer.....guess we'll have to wait and see.
Quintin's birthday was Monday. He is 29 years young! Abby and I got him a little cake decorated with the logo of his favorite football team. No fair weather fans here...we like the Texans win or lose.

Saying Thank You to our Troops

I received this email at work and thought I would share:

If you go to this web site, www.letssaythanks.com , you can pick out a thank you card and Xerox will print it and it will be sent to a soldier that is currently serving in Iraq. You can' t pick out who gets it, but it will go to some member of the armed services.

What we've been up to

We've been a pretty busy family these last couple of weeks. We had a great time participating in the 5K Turkey Trot the weekend after Thanksgiving. Abigail won for her age group even though she rode in her stroller the whole time. The good news is that we didn't come in last place- that was our only goal, aside from finishing of course.

Making a gingerbread house has become one of our family traditions. Abby did a great job decorating her house this year! She is so proud of it.

The hospital where we will have the baby offers sibling preparation classes that we took advantage of. She got to practice changing diapers, swaddling a baby, learning about the umbilical cord (which she wants to help Daddy cut), and how to gently touch the baby. I think she is ready to be a big sister. She keeps asking if the baby is ever coming! Good thing we are down to the last month.

We also made our belly cast. Abby's job was to be the "smoother" and she did a great job. We did the same thing with Abby and I am so glad we did. I painted it and she still has it hanging in her room. For this one I was only a week further along than I was for Abby's. Her favorite color is green now, so I think we are going to paint it pink and green for her little sister. I'll definitely post some pictures of that process.

Snowy Wednesday

Yesterday we had our first official snowfall of the season. It was supposed to only be 1-2 inches, but in the end it was about 4. After school and work we went outside to play and had so much fun. Abby even went down the hill in the sled all by herself. The first time it was kind of on accident because she was getting situated and was turning her head to tell Quintin she wanted him to ride with her and then off she went. She liked it so much that she went down about 3 more times by herself. Such a big girl!