2 months!

Sorry for the lack of posts lately! Allie has grown and changed so much in the past month! She is smiling so much more now and responding when we try to make her laugh. She constantly coos, but her favorite person to talk to is her emo, Michelle. She has so much to say when emo's around. Alicia has been sleeping through the night ever since she was 7 weeks. Her nighttime sleep usually lasts anywhere from 7 - 12 hours, so her daddy and I are VERY thankful for that! She is in a very good mood when she wakes up in the morning and we often find her talking to herself as she is waking up...SO cute! She has found her fingers and tries to suck on them. She hasn't quite figured out her thumb yet, so she just tries to suck on her whole fist. Once in a while, she'll get her pointer finger in her mouth. :)

2 Month Stats:

10 pounds, 11 ounces

22.5 inches

Here are some pictures!

Daddy's favorite jacket!

Little Miss. Allie Clause!

Hair slicked and bright-eyed!

Allie's foot covered in plaster!

7 weeks!

My husband has been getting on my case about not keeping the blog up-to-date, so I'm doing my best to get some posts done while the babe is asleep. :)

I am starting a countdown...or I guess it's a count-...up (?) no longer of the pregnancy, but of Alicia! Our little girl is 7 weeks now and she has grown SO much! Her little cheeks aren't so little anymore, she is smiling everyday and we are starting to see a little bit of personality shine through. She has certain traits of both Jake and me.

Some of the cute:

• she has Jake's side smirk
• she always sneezes twice like me

Some of the not-so-cute:

• she can fart as loud as and sometimes louder than Jake
• she's perfectly fine without going #2 for several days like... :)

Some of her most note-worthy moments thus far in her 7 weeks of existence post-womb:

• she slept for 6 straight hours for the first time a few days ago!
• she pooped so much one time that we got 4 diapers dirty while trying to change her because apparently she wasn't done yet!
• she's starting to babble and from the sounds of it, she'll be a yapper like her dad!
• her hair is sticking straight up like mine when i was a baby

Just to give you a little taste of what this cutie pie looks like, here are some pics to enjoy!

Introducing...!!!

I know, I have been such a horrible blogger this past month, but better late than never...introducing:

ALICIA JOOYOUNG TADEMA

October 27, 2008

7 pounds

19 inches

* Full head of hair*

I started a post about the whole labor and delivery, but I think I will post a link to the full narrative in a future blog as it has gotten very long, so if you are really interested, you can click and read about it later. :)

Our precious little one has been with us for almost 1 month now and she is the greatest joy I have ever experienced! Her little noises, her whimpers, melt my heart and I would pay money to see the little smiles she cracks randomly when she's falling asleep and waking up. This past month has been very good. Allie has been typically sleeping about 3 hours at a time which we hear for newborns, is really good. We are very blessed!

And since I just can't get enough of my girl, here are some more pics! :)

Contractions

It looks like this baby will be coming sooner than people thought. It all started Friday night. I was waking up every hour to go pee. When I woke up at 6:15am on Saturday, I was having contractions, but they weren't bad. The contractions were coming about every hour pretty consistently until about 5pm. They started getting closer to about 30 minutes apart. Around 8pm, they were 20 minutes apart. At this point, they were still not that bad. It's now 4:40am on Sunday, October 26th, and the contractions are pretty painful. I think that I have a pretty high threshold of pain, but during that 1 minute or so that the contraction lasts, I feel like I can't breathe and my stomach is contracting like a REALLY bad menstrual cramp. Since we don't know if we'll make it to 40 weeks, here is a picture of me (in between contractions, of course!) at 39 weeks and 5 days. :)

More Prego Pics!

So Jake FINALLY took some pics of me. We were on our way to a wedding and since I was dressed up, he whipped out the camera. The background is a little ghetto because it's outside our apt, but he did a good job of making sure you can't see the road and parking stalls! :)

Pregnancy Pics!

So I've been bugging Jake to take some pictures of me while I'm prego...why i want to document pictures of me while I am the size of a beached whale, I don't know, but something about it makes me feel like I'll miss it once my bump is gone. Anyway, over the weekend my Gran Big Sis, Tiffany, offered to take pics of the two of us! She did my makeup beforehand because I'm completely clueless when it comes to makeup. We had so much fun with Tiffany and Jared - and she is GREAT w/ the camera! Take a look! :)

Jake likes to talk to my belly and tell the baby, "Come out, come out whatever you are!" I guess we'll find out soon enough when this little one decides to finally make its debut! T - 6 days!

Check out more pics here: http://styleishphoto.blogspot.com/2008/10/jen-jake-and-jens-bump.html

38 Week Appointment

We went in for our 38 week appointment today (by now, we are going to weekly appointments) and to my disappointment, the doctor didn't have anything interesting to tell us. I was hoping that she would tell me that I was dilated, that she felt I would deliver early, SOMETHING, but all she said was "baby's heartrate is good, LOUD. Blood pressure is good. I think you will probably go past your due date." That was exactly what I did NOT want to hear. Oh well...I guess Jooyoung is pretty comfy right where he/she is. He/she is head down right now with his/her bum on my left and limbs on my right. If you look at the video I posted a while back, that protruding is from the butt. :)

Now I am on a mission. I will eat all spicy foods, walk a ton, take Evening Primrose Oil and partake in "relations" (as we now like to call it!) to try to get this baby out! If anyone has any other self-inducing tactics, please let me know!!!