Meet Sophie

Day of induction!

Last photo of my pregnant belly

At the hospital Thursday night catching up on my Hollywood gossip

The nurse inserted Cytotech (sp?) around 8 pm on Thursday night to help my soften my cervix. I was dilated to a 1 and only 60-70% effaced. Everything went well and I was able to sleep (thanks to some Ambien) and get my epidural around 4 am. The contractions weren't bad, but the nurse who was checking my progress was awful!! (hence the early epidural).

I started progressing on my own, without pitocin and was making slow and steady progress. At about 10 am I was at a 5. Jayson left the room (dang at&t service) to let our family know the progress. When he came back I started feeling the urgency to push. When the nurse came in at 11 am to check my progress I was fully dilated! She rushed around the room setting everything up and called the doctor. She told me not to push and wait until the dr. was here. Once the dr. was in the room and suited up he told me to push once, as practice, and then quickly told me to stop. I pushed one more time and the baby's head was out, one more push and baby Sophie was here! The chord was wrapped around her neck twice and she took a minute to start crying. It was a bit scary for a minute, but she quickly started crying and the dr. laid her on my chest. It was so neat to have her so close to me so quickly.

We spent an hour and a half in the delivery room making sure Sophie's temperature was up and getting all her testing done. I felt like a million bucks thanks to the epidural and was actually able to feel my legs and get up an hour after delivery to walk around.

Sophie Clark

April 22, 2011

8 lbs. 6 oz. 21 inches long

11:27 am 

They wheeled us to the post partum room and we enjoyed the next few hours staring at our brand new baby girl. We had a few friends come visit us and my mom flew in that evening. Savannah was really cute meeting her new sister. She was a little nervous at first, but warmed up pretty quick and kept saying "hold it, hold it." Meaning she wanted to hold the baby.  

Dr. Khandalavala 

(whom I secretly have a crush on)

Savannah meeting her new little sister

We have had a great week so far with baby Sophie. She is eating great and sleeping pretty well (4 straight hours last night!) Savannah has been very sweet with her and wanting to always hold and kiss her. Every morning she asks where Sophie is, and occasionally she will just say "I wov you Ofie." My mom has been amazing this week and we wouldn't have been able to do it without her! She has kept Savannah occupied, cooked and cleaned for us, done laundry, and given us lots of support and encouragement. I am sooo glad she was here and will be sooo sad to say goodbye tomorrow.

We love you baby Sophie and are so happy you came to our family!

Dr. Clark

Proud to announce that Jayson passed his clinical boards!!!

Little Miss Big Sister

Miss Savannah will hopefully become a big sister this week, so I wanted to spotlight this special young lady before the new baby steals the show.

At Savannah's 18 month dr. appointment in February she was 22 lbs and 6 oz (23%) and 31 inches tall (30%) and of course her head was again in the 90th percentile :)

She is just my best little buddy and we spend all day everyday together. However, she is becoming more and more attached to her daddy lately. I think she has realized that he is more fun because he does push ups with her on his back, chases her around the house and wrestles her (all of which is not super comfortable in my current condition.)

She loves to be outside and go for "rides" in our new double stroller. She is big enough to play on all of the playground equipment and especially loves to go "high" on the swings and go down the slide.

Savannah has been talking like crazy lately. She has many words, but is starting to put them together in phrases. Some of the most recent are...
"help me"
"I did it!"
"I got it!"
"Where is it?"
"thank you mom/dad"
"more___ please"
"Are you?" (where are you?)
"1, 2, 3"
"ready, set, go"
"ashes, ashes" (Ring around the Rosies)
"open it"
"hold you"

In the baby doll's stroller with the baby doll's binkie

Her favorite toy is still Boo Boo (my old Cougarette teddy bear), and a close second is Baby Boo Boo (a small bear Jayson gave her a few months ago.)

Favorite books are Pinkalicious and Curious George

Favorite movie is Toy Story 3

This is the "Buzz bike" that was supposed to be kept hidden until the new baby arrived, 

but Jayson was too excited and had to give it to her sooner.

Favorite Food- fruit snacks or "nack nacks" as she likes to call them. She would probably eat these all day long if I let her.

Whenever we refer to the baby, Savannah will point to my belly and say "Baby Ofie" (we are thinking the new little babe will be Sophie.) She is so sweet and will pat my belly and give it kisses. I have had to remind her to not kick the baby (especially during diaper changes) and so she will point to my belly and remind herself "no kick."

She is loving nursery, especially the singing time. Lately, she has been putting her two pointer fingers together (what the music chorister has taught the kids to do) and says "temple" wanting us to sing I Love to See the Temple. She also jabbers around the house and then says "amen" (reciting her own prayers, I assume.)

  after a remarkably hard day at church- mostly Sacrament

Jayson had to come off the stand to help with a tantrum that took place in the middle of the isle

nice.

I just can't believe how fast she has grown up and all the things she can do/say. She is such a big girl, but will always be my very first baby.

Girls Night!

Four of us girlfriends decided it was time for a night out. We are all graduating this spring and will be leaving Omaha, so it was now or never. A few highlights of the night were...

pedicures 

slurpees

fabulous hotel

cookies and milk at the bar (getting strange looks with 2 pregnant girls)

chatting until 2 am 

pregnant girl doing splits (I won't name names)

waking up to 0 responsibility

breakfast in the sun

I love these girls so much and will miss them terribly. I am so glad we did this, but wish we would have done it sooner and more often.