Lyla Verona Bailey

I'm not sure how i've neglected the blog for so long, but here's the latest...

Lyla Verona was born on April 7, 2011 @ 12:48 pm.  She was 7 lbs 15 and 20 inches long.  She was healthy and happy!

I went in on April 6 to be induced and things were going fine until the next day.  When they started giving me pitocin to induce the labor, Lyla's heart rate went down.  They took me off the pitocin and tried again.  Same thing happened, so they decided on a C-Section.  The operation went fine and Tim even got to watch  her be born!  Then, I saw her for a few seconds before they took her away with Tim.  He got to carry her to the waiting room where my mom and Sydney were waiting, while I got stitched up.  It seemed like an eternity on the operating table when all I wanted to do was see my girl!!

Here are a few pictures from the hospital...

Lyla is doing well, now.  The first couple weeks were rough and she lost a lot of weight because she was too impatient to breastfeed.  Now, she eats both breast milk and formula and she's doing great! At her last appointment, she was over 10 lbs and 24 inches long.  She was in the 95 percentile on height!  Tall girl!  She has already changed so much.  She is very alert and follows you with her eyes now.  She loves her hands and sucks on them constantly, especially if she's hungry!  She sticks her tongue out a lot and will sometimes copy you if you do it.  She makes some babbling noises but usually gets frustrated because she can't figure out how to talk back.  She smiles a lot more than before, especially for Mommy and Daddy.  Overall, she's doing great!!

Here are some pictures from the past 2 months...

                                                 ...That's all for now!  I'll update again later!

Not that I've changed too much, but here is one last picture of the giant belly!  

We will be heading to the hospital at 7:15 pm tomorrow (Wednesday) so they can induce me and Lyla should arrive sometime on Thursday, the 7th!  

The doctor thinks she is 8-8.5 lbs maybe bigger, doubtfully smaller.  Hopefully being induced will prevent us from having to do a C-Section, but we will see!  

Hopefully my next post will be pictures of Lyla!  Wish me luck!

So, Lyla is officially "term" now, so she can be born whenever she feels like it!!

Spring Break was last week and we went to my parents, which was nice because I could lay in the pool all week, feeling weightless!  Here are a couple pics... Scary, I know!

Anyways, we have a doctors appointment today.  Hopefully we'll have a better timeline of when she might make her appearance!

It's a girl!

Well, I haven't updated in a LONG time, but here's a quick update! So, our trip to Europe this summer was great and we came back with a surprise...a baby girl!

School was starting and I just was not feeling great and felt a little off, so I took a pregnancy test and sure enough, it was positive!  So, our little girl is due April 15, but we think she'll be early!  Here is the evolution of the belly so far!

The day we found out it's a girl!  (We wore pink shirts to school.)

Well, I have about 4 more weeks of school until Spring Break and I plan on working the week after Spring Break with my long-term sub to help her get situated and then taking my leave.  Doctor says she could come as early as last week of March but she'll more likely arrive the first week of April.  We can't wait!  Once we have her room set up, i'll post those pictures!

UStream

So, I am going to try out this thing called UStream.  Basically, I can stream live video from my iPhone, computer, etc.

Here is the link to old videos:

Bailey's UStream

Here is the link to the live feed! If I am currently videoing, you can see it here!:

Video clips at Ustream

Last Thursday, Tim and I went to Travis and Calvin's baseball games.  It was a lot of fun to watch and they played great!

Then, over the weekend, Sydney and Natalie came to stay with us.  Friday night I met them at the Houston Premium Outlet mall and we shopped around for awhile, then headed back to College Station.  Saturday, we woke up and went to breakfast at iHop. Then, went over to Bryan High to take pictures.  After that, we went to A&M to see the Century Tree and got snowcones at JJ's. Afterwards, we went to Hobby Lobby and Walmart to get tye-dye stuff and went home to tye-dye shirts.  That night, we ate at Potato Shack and hung out at the mall for awhile.

Then, Sunday morning we had Shipley's.  We went to Target to get hair dye and we dyed Syd and Natalie's hair black... Well, the underneath black!  Then, we got JJ's snowcones again and hit the road to meet dad at the outlet mall at about 5 and then we went back home for a good night's sleep!

By the way, HAPPY (belated) MOTHER'S DAY!!

AND... I wasn't there, but Austin and Shan had their senior prom on Saturday!  Here's a picture!

I've been a horrible blogger lately.  Tim and I have been so busy during the week and on the weekends we've been spending our time cleaning up the yards.  The people who lived in the house before us never did any landscaping or upkeep for the yards, so we have spent the last few weekends removing leaves, pulling weeds, trimming trees/bushes, planting flowers, etc.   It is very slowly but surely getting done.  I will post pics when it is finished!

Tim has also been a little under the weather lately.  It's either a cold or allergies, but he's had a sore throat for about a week now.  I think I had it first and gave it to him, but luckily my sore throat only lasted a few days.

This week is TAKS week at work.  Today, the 10th graders are taking the Math TAKS, which means I have been moved from my classroom to the one right above me, which happens to be right across from Tim... Yay!   That also means we get to have the same lunch for once!

Well, 2nd period is about to start, so I better end this.  I will hopefully update sooner!