It's snowing! It's snowing!!!!

It started snowing at our house around 1:15 p.m. today.

This is 2:00 p.m.

This is at 3:00 p.m.

4:00 p.m.

5:00 p.m.

6:00 p.m.

And according to my Snoopy Ruler, at 5:00 p.m. we got just a little under 2 inches:

Veronica got bundled up and we took her outside to be in her first snow (although we had snow in January, we didn't take her outside, so this is her first snow outing):

Baby Einstein, Mirror, Cold

So, V caught Matt's cold but thankfully she's a trooper and other than the cough and little runny nose, you wouldn't be able to tell!!  I was going to make an appointment for her at the pediatrician this morning, but while I was on the phone waiting for them to answer, I was looking at their website and found this: http://www.dekalbpeds.com/index_files/Page1488.htm  So, after reading it, I decided to wait and see how she is tomorrow.  Thankfully Matt is feeling better and so far (knock on wood) I have been feeling normal (well normal for me at least...).  Let's just hope that V doesn't get worse over the weekend! So far we love our Pediatrician, but the bad part is they are only open Monday - Friday.  Which is great for the staff, but bad if baby gets sick on Saturday or Sunday. 

 

Because Veronica is getting more aware of her surroundings, Matt got her a cute mirror last night for her crib!  I put it in her crib this morning and she just stared at it.  Then she started crying, but that was only because she was hungry.  The awesome part about the mirror is that it can be used on the floor as well!  Multi-use gadgets are awesome!

 

(Have I told you that she only cries when she's hungry or is gassy?  We really do have a great baby!! And we're very blessed and lucky.  And she sleeps through the night too!  Very lucky for sure.)

 

Now on to Baby Einstein.  The Cunnington's gave Veronica her first Baby Einstein for Christmas and she loves watching it!  When Matt was at Target yesterday getting V a mirror and more bottles (thanks Lash for eating more bottles!) he got her another Baby Einstein Movie: "Baby's First Moves, Get up and Go!"  She and I are watching it now and it's hard to believe that she'll be able to do some of the things on the video very soon!!!!!  During my pregnancy, the first couple of months went by very fast, the middle months went by relatively slow, and the last couple of months went by very fast.  I'm wondering if this is how it's going to be with Veronica now.  The first month and a half went by very fast, after that it's gone by very slow - which I'm VERY thankful for!!!  It's still hard to believe that Matt and I are parents, and it's even harder to believe that Veronica is 3 months and will be doing SO much more!!!!

 

She can almost sit up on her own, it's sort of like the video of her trying to roll over - she almost has it!!!

 

Yeah, posting through email is much easier, so I should be updating more often now!!!

 

Much Love!

Katie

 

Blogging through email?

Let's see if this works. If it does then hopefully I'll update more!

V meets Elmo

again, sorry it's sideways!

Sweet V's already 3 months!!!!

(Sorry for taking forever to update our Blog. Hopefully I'll do a better job at updating on here)



It's hard to believe that Veronica is 3 months old!! Over the last 2 months, Veronica has:
- grown out of all of her 0-3 months clothes
- grown out of the majority of her 3-6 months clothes
- fits perfectly into the few 9 months clothes we have for her
- has moved into Size 3 diapers
- gotten her first round of vaccines
- smiled a lot
- focusing on us and objects
- started grabbing things
- tries to roll over
- loves to watch Food Network
- started talking some
- gained about 5 pounds since birth, from 9 lbs 3 ounces to around 16 pounds
- grown about 4 inches since birth, from 22 inches to 26 inches


I know I'm forgetting things that she has done, so hopefully I'll remember them.


Things are going well in the Monroe household. Matt is doing awesome in school. Word around town is that he got the Hope Scholarship!!!! Couldn't be more proud of him!!! He's still enjoying it, but can't wait to be finished.


We're very lucky that both our schedules are letting us not have to put Veronica in daycare. I'm working from home 2 days a week and Matt is home 2 days a week. Matt's mom, Pat, watches her for a couple hours on Thursdays when we're both at work.


I was going to add more pictures, but my computer is acting up so at least you've got some recent photos of Sweet V!
Her Christmas outfit

January 1, 2010

January 25, 2010

NOW FOR SOME VIDEOS!!!! (sorry some are sideways! I'm still trying to get used to the camcorder on my phone)

February 1, 2010: Veronica can almost turn over!

February 3, 2010: look who's talking now!!!

Veronica is HERE!!!

Sorry it's taking me so long to update on here, BUT VERONICA IS HERE!!!!!!

After 16 hours of labor, 4 doses of epidural, lots and lots of ice, and 20 minutes of pushing, Veronica arrived on November 2, 2009 at 3:19 p.m., 9 pounds 3 ounces and 22 inches long!

We arrived home Wednesday Nov. 5th and we're all doing well! Veronica goes to her first check up this coming Monday. It is hard to believe she is almost 2 weeks old!!!

Matt and I couldn't be happier!!!

A Very Quick Update - Sunday's the day!!!!

We went to the doctor yesterday and I'm still 1 cm dilated. The doctor said that they wanted to induce labor that night because of my high blood pressure. It wasn't terrible yesterday, but it wasn't low either. It's been up and down each week. They are concerned that it might turn into preeclampsia. I believe another reason they wanted to induce last night was because they know that Veronica is developed enough to not be underweight. They also gave us the option if we didn't want to induce that night to wait until Sunday (they don't induce on the weekends) and see if she decides to come on her own. This is obviously what Matt and I decided since we didn't go to the hospital last night. You wanna to know how we decided? We played Rock, Paper, Scissor. No lie frog eye. Thankfully I won and I was Sunday. Even though I won, I'm 99.99% sure that we would have gone with Sunday anyways. So, here's our time schedule for Sunday:

Lunch: Last big meal of the day
3:00 p.m. light food after (i.e. soup) but continue drinking fluids
7:00 p.m. call the hospital to make sure they still have room for us
8:00 p.m. Get to the hospital to start the process!
Sometime after 8:00 p.m. HAVE OUR DAUGHTER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

We'll try to keep you as updated as possible though here. If you're on Facebook or gmail, you'll probably know before you know just from here, so check there. Most likely I won't feel like updating on here till after I've slept and rested.

I'll also try to come up with an email "tree" tomorrow, so if you want to for sure be added to that list, send me an email at kathryncmonroe@gmail.com or post your email here.

VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY EXCITING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

LOVE YOU ALL!!!!