Daddy and baby

Here are a few picture of Daddy and baby. He's so cute with her. I love catching pictures of them taking naps together. He's so good with her. I wonder how hard it is for daddy being a new daddy because i know how hard it is for me learning to be a mommy. I think he does get more sleep though.

Time out for women weekend

Mom's birthday weekend...we went to Time Out For Women in Kansas City. It was fun to get a motel room for a night and play games and enjoy the music and speakers at the meeting. We were all so exausted that we didn't last long that night playing games. Adi kept me and Ashlee up all night and mom too. Well, Ashlee helped me all night but we let mom sleep as much as she could. We were all so tired the next day but it was still a fun day. happy birthday to mom. We went out to dinner with Jared and Gideon afterwards at a Chinese food place. Ashlee made a cake...cupcakes with different colors representing different hexes from Moms favorite game Settlers of Catan. It was so neat. Great idea!

We also got a couple picture of the cousins' first meeting. Gideon, Ella and Adison. What cute kids!

Also, Ashlee won a drawing for publishing her own free book - up to 80 pages or so. Pretty awesome. Several of us were rooting for her to win that so it was pretty special.

I think mom enjoyed the day too...even if she was way tired through the whole thing. It was a fun trip.

Dustin's yearly Halloween parade was so fun. I was able to go down and follow the parade around. There were so many fun costumes and a classroom party afterwords. There were all kinds of goodies and games. The kids had to reach their hands into a bowl of slimy noodles to find an army man. Dustin went in and out. It took him about one and a half seconds to find that thing. His teacher was telling me what a great kid he is and what a joy it is to have him in class. He is a great kid. I agree. It was an absolutely beautiful day for a parade. The kids got lucky. All 400 kids.

Trees be gone

The big, rotten, nasty trees in our front yard are gone as of October 23, 2009. That's kind of a significant day I guess. Dad calls it a happy birthday present to mom. Lol. It's weird to have them gone. I still need to take a picture of after the trees were removed. Maybe when the stumps are gone gone we can have a nice yard to play football and stuff. Mom wants to plant a nice pretty maple in the yard. Great idea!

How much can I say about her?! I love my baby....we love our Adi! These pictures are kind of in order from leaving the hospital until today. She's three weeks old today. There's her first little bath...she almost slept through it....her first trunk or treat this past Monday- she was a giraffe. She also had the cutest pumpkin outfit on. She came out looking like me and looks so much like Tj now it's crazy cute! She has my ears though...totally. She's not a newborn any more but a baby. I'm feeling better than I was of course but still not perfect. I'm almost out of pain killers so I hope the pain ends soon.

Adi is starting to sleep longer. She sleeps about three hours at a time...at night. Then again it depends on the night. One night I got almost four hours straight and then she woke up and ate for fifteen minutes and slept another three hours. That was a good night. I'm starting to really get the hang of this now though...slowly but it's coming. I'm so glad we're here at mom and dad's right now. It sure is a blessing for us and for me right now with learning to be a mommy. It's hard work!

I finally lost the water weight after two weeks of being not pregnant. I automaticallhy felt 90 percent better after that. My hormones started to equal out too. I actually enjoy going out and being with my husband...well, i always do enjoy those things don't get me wrong...but my whole outlook on things is so much brighter now and...well, that might be because I'm starting to get a little more sleep too. It's hard being cooped up in the house all day too. I try to find things around the house to do and I'm still figuring out the baby feeding thing. I guess I'm "very" fortunate to be producing milk ...a lot...but I'm still not sure what's fortunate about the mass amount that's producing. It's been making me pretty miserable but I think I'm starting to figure that out too. Wow! There's a lot that comes with being a new mommy. My mom has been such a great help and Ashlee gave me some good advice and stayed up with me all night when we went to Kansas City together. Of course everyone has great advice to give all the time.

I haven't taken Adi out much but we spent the day out today. Mom and Dustin have no school and work since Tuesday and we all went to run errands today and it was really nice to be out of the house. Now I'm sitting here blogging when I should be getting everything done that I didn't do today when we were out. it's been a good day.

Baby Adison

Adison Irene Hunter

6 lb 15.8oz - just under seven pounds

18 inches long

lots of dark hair!

Beautiful complexion

long legs, toes and fingers

Baby Adison is finally here. Glad there was no big surprise at delivery. We teased about her coming out a him...I would have cried even more if that happened.

So glad she is here. It's just starting to set in that I am a mommy now. She's so good and cute and so pretty! It's amazing how much hair she has...so beautiful. I get all emotional every time I see her. She's just so....beautiful!

The hospital people spoiled us and were so wonderful at helping me learn...a lot. I know there is still a lot to learn about being a mom and it sure is hard but it's worth it. Being a mommy is hard work and I'm only in the first stages.

Now I'm looking forward to being not sore and losing some of this weight. The doctor said the medicine I've been on makes the body retain water but there's a lot more retaining besides the water.

As far as the whole delivering the baby... what a memory. I sure don't want do that again any time soon. I definitely could not have done that without TJ and mom by my side.