Merry Christmas/Baby Olivia/Holy Baby!!!

Rob and I had our Christmas early this year too. Here's a photo that I'm sure he's going to love that I put up on the blog--he was so excited (and surprised) that he got Rock Band for his new Wii. I figured he already knew-but I guess that guy had no clue! I received some great gifts-some fitness stuff for after Grayson is born-and fabulous Coach diaper bag-which I can't wait to start using-and these awesome slipper socks. What a great guy!

The Sunday before Christmas we all went to Dad and Becky's to do our family Christmas-since Rob and I were supposed to be gone and Michele was going to be way too tired. As always-it was tons of food-way too much food-and lots of goodies.

Lucy and her mom.

Lucy with Aunt Sara and Aunt Jennifer. Doug is in the background watching football.
Lucy was so excited about her big girl make-up that Aunt Sara bought her in New York-she just had to find a place for it in her pocket.
Becky trying to clean-up during the mass chaos.

Cassie loves it when the family gets together and she can get in the middle of it all. Here she is saying Merry Christmas!
We left for Colorado the next day...

On Christmas we spent the day with Mom, Joe, Sara and Nana. One downfall--United had our luggage still in Durango. We received it Christmas night-Rob's was shredded-mine was fine. But after 3 days without it-I was glad to have it back in whatever shape it was in.

Christmas Eve consisted of going to Mom and Joe's and eating tasty Italian as always. This year though-I think I was in bed a little earlier than normal. Next morning Rob and I woke up early and he decided to go and wake Sara up with the video camera and a flashlight-you can imagine how well that went over! After gifts-Rob made his fantastic Belgin waffles for everyone-we watched Mama Mia and just relaxed. Then it was off to another dinner for us.

Here's Joe and Nana opening some gifts.

The infamous video camera that woke Aunt Sara out of her beauty sleep on Christmas morning.

On a side note-I FINALLY got to meet Katie Hoyt's family--so cute! I didn't get any pictures-Carter really didn't want anything to do with me-only Rob. It was great to see you all-and when you come in in April-we're bringing Grayson over to throw in the mix with all the babies!

Baby Olivia is here! She was born on December 30. She is as cute and sweet as can be. Lucy is so excited to be a big sister. When we arrived at the hospital she wanted us to come in right away and wanted to introduce us to her new baby. She didn't want anyone to leave the hospital room because she loved all of us. It was so sweet. Olivia is so little! It made me so excited to have Grayson come! I wasn't able to get too many pictures of her because Olivia was just not wanting the flash in her face. You can't see the t-shirt that well that Lucy has on-but it's from her Uncle Rob-and it says "I'm a BIG Sister" It was way cute.

So now onto the G-Man. You notice in the title it's called Holy Baby!! Well Holy Baby is right! We went this past Monday to have another sonogram of the little guy. Mom, Joe, Sara and Nana all came with us. Nana I think was the most fascinated of all of us because just of all the technology these days. Anyways-everything is looking great with the little guy. He still has 2 of everything and is moving right along. He's almost 6 pounds!!! AAGGHH!!! Already!! Whew! His head was already measuring about 36 weeks--I'm going to give birth to a bobble-head doll! All of his other measurements are a few weeks ahead as well. Dr. Piquard isn't concerned though-she said that we will start talking C-Section around 9-10 lbs. As of now though-she's keeping my due date as Feb. 14--is she crazy?!?! This kid will almost double in size if she does that! I don't think that I can hold him in for that long! We have a $25 buy-in bet to see when he's born. Of course-I have the earliest date-January 22. I give this kid another 3 weeks-max before he comes into the world. I thought that we might be welcoming him yesterday. Rob and I were just getting up when I had this severe pain underneath my belly-so severe that I was in tears. I thought my insides were falling out. After that I was having Braxton Hicks contractions about every other minute. Called the on-call doctor and she told me to just lay down-drink plenty of water and count my contractions and call her back. Well they slowed down-only had 4 in an hour-12 minutes apart-so she said they weren't strong enough to do anything to my cervix. Can you see Grayson't big fat chunky cheeks in these pictures? He's facing you so you can see his eyes, etc.

Dr. Piquard is letting us skip a week of seeing her because my blood levels looked so good-so we have a week off. Rob and I are attending our 'How to Have a Baby' class this Sunday-which should be some what interesting-if not terrifying.

Next week should fly by-we have 3 baby showers at the end of the week! On Friday my work is having one-Saturday-my girls are having one-and then Sunday Mom's friends are having one. Whew! Baby Grayson sure is loved!

Hope you all had a fantastic New Year's. Rob and I were in bed by 10:30-but Rock Chalk Jayhawk! We enjoyed watching the game! Have a great weekend and I'll post pictures from next week!