What a full house we have...

So we are all back at home now and trying to get settled into some sort of routine. Thankfully, we have wonderful parents and family that are always willing to lend a hand. Laura is doing a great job getting adjusted to the late night feedings and I am just trying to help where I can. Delainey absolutely loves her little sister and is being very over-protective of her. Tiger is very weary of the new addition is not to sure about us getting us in the middle of the night.

Jacqueline is being the perfect baby (knock on wood)! Not to much fussing and is very laid back. We are very thankful the Lord has given us two gorgeous little girls!

Man, are we tired!

I think we forgot how to function on lack of sleep. Tonight is our last night in the hospital and I think our sleeps is more interrupted by the nurses checking on everyone than it is by Jacqueline waking up. Our hospital stay has been very uneventful, but we are ready to go home now. Delainey is ready to show her little sister her new pink room and all of her toys.

We have discovered that Delainey is going to be a very over-protective big sister, so that will be interesting to watch that unfold. Jacqueline has been wonderful and we are very excited to be heading home tomorrow!

She is here!

Jacqueline Marie was born a 1:33pm today. She weighs 7lbs 2 oz and is 19.75 inches long. She has brown hair and blue eyes. Momma and baby are doing just great. Laura did great with the pushing and Jacqueline was out in no time! Delainey loves her baby sister and wants to be the only one that holds her. We will let you know when we are headed home.

Today is the day!

So here it is 9:30am and we have already been in the hospital for 4 hours. I guess there were a few emergencies last night and they were short on nurses, so there was no one to check us into the room. They finally took Laura back at 7am and got her settled in. Dr. Keeton just left and Laura's water is now broken. So now we just wait as the contractions do their thing. We will keep you posted!

Here she comes!

So it is now official. Unless, she shows up before then, Laura and I are headed to the hospital on Tuesday to be welcome our new daughter into this world. Everyone is very excited and nervous at the same time.

We had a great Easter and hope everyone else did too. Laura had some family down from Ohio, so Delainey spent the entire weekend playing with three of her cousins and she had a blast. Saturday night and Sunday morning she slept for almost 12 hours and would have slept more if we would have let her. On Easter morning, Delainey looked all around the house until she found her Easter Basket and then it was off to church. After church Delainey participated in an Easter Egg Hunt with 70 other kids! We spent Easter afternoon entertaining our family and friends at our house. We had a great meal and shared some great laughs. The kids did another Easter Egg hunt at the house and played the afternoon away. We are lucky to be able to share holidays like this with such great family and friends. Unfortunately, Uncle Jack and Aunt Niki could not join us because they were under the weather today. We did send some food over to them though.

We hope everyone had a great Easter and remembered the reason for such a special day. We will try to get pictures of Jacqueline up as soon as possible!

Still no baby!

Another week passes and still no baby Jacqueline and that is okay. We know the longer she is in there, the better off she will be. Laura had another appt. with her doctor today and other than some more discomfort there has been no change in the dilation. We are hoping around March 24th or so Jacqueline will be here. The only other news is that the rest of the house is getting painted so at least all of that will be done once the baby gets here.

Delainey is now an official Super Sibling! The hospital puts on a little class to show siblings what it is going be like to be a big sister or brother. One of the cool things she got to do was dress up like a nurse or doctor and go up to the new baby nursery. We were lucky enough that there was a two hour old baby in there for everyone to see. In addition to that, she was able to learn how to wrap up baby sister in a blanket and how to correctly hold her. She even got a cool certificate when she was done!

Hope everyone has a great St. Patricks Day and we will keep you posted!

A little closer to baby time....

Laura had her weekly check-up on Friday morning and she is already dilated (2cm)! We are still 4 weeks away from her due date, but I think Jacqueline is ready to join us at any time. Laura's next appt. is on Thursday and the doctor told her if she is 4cm on Thursday, she considers that active labor and she will be admitted to the hospital.

It has been a pretty quiet week here in Columbia. Lots of rain and wind, but we have kept busy. Delainey got her haircut Thursday and Laura said it made her look like she was 5 years old.

We will keep you posted on the baby front, but right now it is time for Delainey's soccer game!

Another busy weekend...

The weekend started off with a bang. We were able to have dinner with the Hogue family at Mellow Mushroom Friday evening and then Delainey became a part of their family for a few hours. She was lucky enough to go to the PlayhouseDisney show with the Hogue's and she had a blast. We heard all about the Little Einstein's, Handy Manny, Pooh and Tigger, and Mickey of course.

Saturday was a VERY busy day for everyone, except Laura who still has a bad cold and needed the downtime to rest. Stephen helped with the first annual Jack D. Oliver, Sr. Memorial Blood Drive and it was a great success. The goal was to have 35 pints of blood collected and we surpassed that and collected 39 pints. Dad would have been so proud and honored that so many people turned out. Jack, Jr. even donated for the first time! Delainey had a busy morning of getting her soccer pictures taken and then playing in her second game. She said she didn't have as much fun this time because the other kids wouldn't share the ball with her during the game. I guess we need to have a little talk about competition.

Sunday morning we had a little downtime and got a little rest. Then, we did some cleaning of the house and all went about enjoying the afternoon in different ways. Laura had to do the real estate thing and had some good success. Stephen and Delainey went out to the lake to ride in Niki and Jack's new boat. Delainey was so excited because Uncle Bubba let her drive the boat and honk the horn. One of the highlights of the trip was watching a Bald Eagle fly low across the lake and grab a fish or snake and soar over top of the boat. What a thrill!

We are getting closer and closer to April 7th and the big day. Laura feels like she could burst at any moment!