Baby Charlotte

 

I can’t even begin to catch up on an entire year that I have not blogged! Things get busy and I just don’t have time to sit down and do this as often as I would like.  I will try to keep this more up to date as I know there are family members who do not have facebook and I want you all to be in the loop as well!

 

Something very big happened in our lives last month.  Her name is Charlotte Ann Fuller.  She is absolutely perfect and we are so very blessed to have her!

 

 

Little Miss Charlee as we call her, was born at 8:00 p.m. on September 14, 2013.  She weighed 7 pounds even and 19 inches long.  My labor was not induced and I needed no pitocin.  That was a first for me.  I did have an epidural.  3 of them actually.  They had a really hard time getting the epidural in the right spot.  Thankfully, the third one took.  Just in time to get comfortable and get ready to welcome our baby girl.  We had a roomful! My mom and dad, Kaden and Olivia, and of course my Hubby, all got to experience Charlee’s birth.  We also had a photographer who captured memories for us that I will cherish forever.  Thank you Amber!!

 

 

Charlee had a bit of a rough start.  She had the cord around her neck and was pretty blue when she was born (sound familiar?).  They were able to get her nice and pink fairly quickly (though it didn’t feel that way to me) and then I was able to hold her.  She ended up having to stay an extra night in the hospital because he jaundice levels spiked and she needed the lights.  We brought her home on lights as well and she stayed on those for 48 hours.  We are STILL dealing with some jaundice at 4 weeks, but it is slowly leaving her system. 

 

How is life with 3 kids you ask? Well….it’s amazing and crazy, and fun, and overwhelming!   I feel like I am constantly playing catch up with everything.  Kaden and Olivia adore their little sister, but both of them have each shown their frustrations with my constant attention on Charlee. Kaden insists on sitting on my lap while I nurse and that doesn’t always work out and he is going through a “I want that NOW stage”, so we are battling some super awesome fits.  Olivia has mastered the art of talking (more like yelling) back to me so that’s been fun. 

 

All in all, everything is perfect really.  This is just life and we are all adjusting to our new little addition.  I am really hoping that we can find time to come home and visit everyone soon. Wayne is getting ready to head to California (we think) for a few weeks and with Olivia in school now, it makes it a little more difficult to just head home when we want to.

In the meantime, I will do my best to keep this blog updated even if it is just a little quick paragraph and some pictures now and then. Here are a few more pics of little miss that I took right after we got home from the hospital. 

 

Love you all!!