Sydney's First Week

Here is Sydney all ready to leave the hospital.

Nicole LOVES being a big sister. She talks very sweetly to Sydney and loves to hold her. Nolan loves her, too. He calls himself a "Super Duper Big Brother" now that he has two little sisters. I haven't been able to capture a good picture of the two of them together yet, but we'll work on it. Here is the happy big sister:
This is Sydney at 5 days old:

Sydney is one week old today. We gave her her first official bath (she's had sponge baths throughout the week...don't worry, I'm a good mommy). She LOVED her bath.

She got into this trance while she so cutely gripped the washcloth close to her face. It was so funny! She didn't love the getting out and being cold part of bathtime, though. She gave her lungs a good workout while we got her dressed and warmed up again.

Here is our little angel sleeping this morning. So far she is the best-behaved baby we've ever met. She's giving me grief with nursing, though, but hopefully we'll get the issues resolved soon. It's been a really fun week having a new baby in our family. My mom is here helping me, and I'm so glad. It's enabled me to rest and focus on getting the nursing on track.

Nolan's Field Day and 7th Birthday

A couple weeks ago, Nolan had his first school Field Day. Check out his long jump:

This is Nolan's 1st Grade Class:
On October 3rd, Nolan turned 7! We celebrated by going to Mr. Bigg's that afternoon. He chose to play laser tag with his cousins and had a blast. They also got to play a few video games at the arcade.

The next day Nolan had a sports party with some of his friends from school at our rec center.

While Grandma and Grandpa Miller were on their mission, Nolan discovered his love for carrot cake. I told him that Grandma Dorothy makes the best carrot cake in the world, and he decided that was what he wanted for his birthday cake (which was 8 months away at the time). Grandma decided to play a joke on him and made him a Bugs Bunny cake with a carrot on it, and when he saw it she said, "Here's your cake with a carrot on it...isn't that what you wanted?" He was very polite and didn't want to hurt her feelings, so he slowly nodded his head, but we could see the disappointment in his eyes. She told him she was just teasing, that it was a real carrot cake, and he thought it was pretty funny. He agreed that it was delicious. And I owe Dorothy a huge thanks for making Nolan's cake this year (she took pity on me after seeing the dowels holding up Nicole's cake...and because I was 8 1/2 months pregnant).

We can't believe our little boy is growing up so fast! He's such a great kid and we're proud of him every day.

New Arrival!

Introducing Sydney Jane Miller, born Sunday, Oct 12, 2008 at 6:30 a.m., weighing 7 lbs 12 oz and 19.5 inches long.
Nolan and Nicole have been SO excited to get a new baby sister. They came to meet her a few hours after her birth and they loved her. Nolan said he thought it was going to be weird, "but it wasn't weird at all!" Nicole couldn't stop kissing her forehead and talking very sweetly to her. Both kids freaked out whenever she would move..."MOM! I saw her move her hand!" We tried in vain to get her to wake up while they were here. Grandma and Grandpa will bring them back this afternoon and we'll try again.

Everything went well with the delivery, and we're all doing fine. Tammy is absolutely thrilled to not be pregnant anymore. Sydney came on her own 10 days early! We'll post more pics within the next few days.

36 Weeks

I had a high resolution ultrasound last week to check for early signs of eye tumors...just a precaution...our chances of having another child with retinoblastoma is very tiny. Thankfully, everything looked great. Here is a 3D face shot of our growing little girl. Check out the chubby cheeks!

I had my 37 week appt. today and nothing is happening yet...which is a good thing because we're not quite ready!