Lyndsay, Kurt, Harper & Riley

1 Month

1 Month

I cannot believe that one month has already passed. How quickly time flies!! We are still doing terrific! She is a good sleeper, both during the day and at night. She is up more and more during the day, but a good portion of the time she is happy as a clam. Other times that is not quite the case. Overall she is one happy baby!!

Crazy Hair

Crazy Hair

Whenever we go anywhere the main thing we here is "WOW, look at all that hair". Nobody can look at Harper without mentioning her hair. People have commented that their child was born with hair but even still Harper puts them to shame or older men have mentioned that she was born with more hair than they have (alot of times that is true). So we have tried our hardest to capture pictures of all that hair just in case it should fall out (we sure hope not). The best part is pictures do not do it justice. Every time I think I will get a great picture of just how crazy her hair is, it never actually looks as crazy as it does in person. Guess the camera just loves her already :)

A little poufy.

A little spikey.

This is the "comb over/I just took a bath look"

I decided with all of this hair we might as well enjoy it and use lots of headbands and clips. The hard part is finding a good way to use them :) Not so bad in this picture -- a little spikey.

But then from the side view if you look close you can see that the head band just accentuates the spikey craziness :)

This is the "Albert Einstein look" and the determination that it is time to take a bath :)

Wide Awake

Wide Awake

Harper is slowly waking up more and more. When she first came home from the hospital she just slept and slept and slept. Not that she is awake all the time now, but we do get to see those beautiful eyes a little bit more often nowadays.

We are also learning how we can work together and have some fun outside of the house :) Look at this fancy get up that we put together to pick blueberries. Thank goodness we live in the middle of nowhere and don't have to worry about looking like fools :)

Model Material :)

Another Photo Shoot

1st Bath

We decided after a week it was time for our first bath. Harper decided she HATES to take a bath!!

Overall, we all survived!!

Can't take our eyes off of her :)

We just can't stop staring at her. She is just perfect in our eyes. I think we have probably taken a thousand pictures in the past 5 days. Here are a few of our favorites, which is very hard to pick.

39 Weeks

39 Weeks

Almost 1 week old

Here we are at 39 weeks -- someone is missing out of my belly :)

I still have no idea how she fit in there -- tight fit :)

And here she is 1 week old. Our family of three.

38 Weeks -- Hospital Time

38 Weeks

ON THE WAY TO THE HOSPITAL!!

38 Weeks and 2 days

(we kept saying we needed to get our 38 week picture in and then it was too late -- uh oh )

Here we are in the hospital parking lot. Our last picture as just the two of us, from now on it will be the three of us :)

So Tuesday, July 10th Kurt woke up and started getting around for work. After he went downstairs I decided to go to the bathroom really quick before I went back to bed for a few minutes. Well when I went to the bathroom I was pretty sure my water broke but I was not sure, so I attempted to go back to bed. About ten minutes later I knew I was not going to sleep so I got up to get some breakfast, and then my water definitely broke. I called Kurt to let him know as he was supposed to head down to Sunbury for the day. But I also told him I was not sure exactly what was going on but I would call the doctor. Well I called and they said come right in, so I had to cancel my appointment and I told Kurt I would meet him at the hospital. (I took my good old time, showered, packed all of our bags in the car and then headed to the hospital). We got there about 8 (water broke about 6:30am) and they had us change and hang tight. Well we don't hang tight very well so we began pacing the halls. We walked and walked and walked and walked. We would only come back to the room when the nurse needed to hook us up to monitors and machines, then back to walking. The walking was working, but we were going on baby time, and she was not ready to come until Grandma and Grandpa Shader could arrive (wish she could have told us that). About 4 contractions started getting quite painful, but we just kept on walking. Then they started getting worse and worse and I was not getting up at all. We decided to get some phetanol to ease the pain. Well that did nothing but make them farther apart, it did not help make it any less painful. It was too much, too much for me to bear and too much for Kurt to watch me go through. So after an hour of so of just phetanol we decided to get an epidural. I was scared to death of getting one, but we did. Well it helped, did not take the pain away but it helped. The problem was that meant I had to lay still and not move. It was tough, but at about midnight it was time to push. We started pushing and at 1:01am baby Harper Ella Stabler was born. A healthy 7lbs 5 oz and 20 1/4 inches long. When they placed her on my stomach all I could think of was she was perfect. Perfect little lips, perfect little nose, just perfect. We were in love and now a family of three :)

Happy Birthday Harper!

Photo Shoot :)

Pregnant Photo Shoot

We decided that we should have some fun and take some pictures while we had this great big belly. So we waited until it was a little bit cooler last night and the two of us went out to try to capture some great belly pictures. Here are some of my favorites, including some goofy ones :)

37 Weeks

37 Weeks

Don't have much to update this week, still feeling great, with a few days here and there where I feel slightly tired or run down.

Kurt is the one who should be run down as he has been working really hard making lots of things for the new house. He has made an awesome gun cabinet, end table for the living room, end tables for our bedroom, book shelf for the babies room, sewing table for my craft room, and a thread holder for me as well. He has been very busy! I will try and take some pictures to show everyone how great they are! We have our own little furniture factory around here :)