March Update

Whew! It's been a busy few weeks at our house! I've been busy with fundraising for swim team, and we've been spring cleaning at our house. We have updated our living room, organized and painted the bathroom, organized and painted our bedroom, started organizing Kara's room, started organizing the garage, and organized the kitchen (thanks to my mom and sister for helping!) Oh--and we've been spending loads of time with Kara! I still have the garage to finish and organizing in the kitchen, bedroom, and Kara's room to finish, but these things have been driving me crazy, and it's so nice to finally get to them!

I had my employee review this morning at the school, and I got an excellent review! It made me feel so good to know that my hard work is noticed/appreciated. I also was offered a job from another high school's coach to work with him over the summer for a summer league, and have accepted the job! I am VERY excited, but it's about 4 hours a day, so that on top of nannying full time, I know I'll be busy! We're trying to get all the money saved up we can this summer, because in the fall, it's back to school to finish my classes and get my teaching license! I also have to renew my coaching license and renew my lifeguarding certificate this summer, (and somehow squeeze in a family vacation), so it's going to be fast-paced from here on out!

Kara is growing so fast. She's still in newborn clothes, but I can't believe she's already 6 weeks! She is so much fun, and smiles at me all the time. I love her to death!

Here's a crummy picture from today (from off my phone). I got a new camera, and I can't wait to use it, but this will have to do for now!

Can't Get Enough of Kara! Part 2

Two posts in one day... But here are some more cute pictures of Kara!

Can't Get Enough of Kara!

We took some pictures of Kara yesterday to test out some options for baby announcements. Here are some candid shots of her--it'w hard for me to choose my favorite, but I love the smiling picture! The very last picture is a picture of Kara with my great grandma--her great GREAT grandma! We are lucky enough to have 5 generations of oldest daughters in my family! Kara is the oldest daughter, of the oldest daughter (me), of the oldest daughter (my mom), of the oldest daughter (my grandma), of the oldest daughter (my great grandma)! Isn't that cool?

Kara Update 3/19/10

Kara is finally off the oxygen! Yay! She is also finally up to 7 lbs 1 oz--yay for our growing girl! Newborn clothes are actually still a little baggy on her, but she's starting to get a little meat on her legs and arms, so we are happy to see that!

We're having a little of a hard time with formula. She's been really sensitive to everything, so we're having to try just about every kind out to see what works best for her. I am hoping I will be able to nurse the entire time with our next children, especially after the struggles we've had with Kara.

Overall, Kara is completely adorable and is just about the prettiest baby in the world!

Alright!

We're going home today! They're sending us home with oxygen and home care because Kara still can't breathe completely on her own, but we are SOOOO happy to be finally going home!

Good News

The doctor wants to watch Kara for another 24 hours, and if she's still doing ok on the regular oxygen, he's going to send us home on oxygen. Even though Kara is going to be on oxygen for a while longer, the prospect of going home makes me really happy! Let's hope she does well for the rest of the day!

Picture

I have nothing interesting to look at here other than Kara... So I guess everybody is going to have to put up with a million pictures of Kara on the blog until we're out of here!

Isn't she a cutie?!