Liberty Ann Bell!

Liberty Ann Bell was born on February 25, 2010 at 9:57 pm! She weighed 6 lbs 11 oz and is 19.5 inches long! She is so beautiful and so sweet! We are so happy to have her! She is doing very well. Eat, sleep, poop, snuggle, repeat! The day she was born we went to the hospital at about 6:30 am. Contractions were about 5 min apart. Labor was very slow from there. They almost sent me home, but luckily my water broke and I got to stay. It was a very long day, but totally worth it! It was love at first sight! Enjoy some pictures of the little cutie!

The Nursery

We just need a baby to put in here! Dr made it sound like she will be coming this week! Keep your fingers crossed that she will!!!

Gordo vs. the Bathtub

Last Sunday, I was really tired, so I tried to take a nap. Richard decided he wanted to take a bubble bath to relax. So he's in there for like 10 minutes when I hear a loud splash, laughing and richard scolding the cat. Apparently curiosity finally got to Gordo. He always is interested in the shower/bath, but still too cautious to get in. He sits on the rug outside the shower almost everyday while I'm in there. (I think he thinks I'm going to drown or something, he seems very concerned). This time Richard thinks he may have thought he would float like the bubbles or something. Well, he didn't. He looked pretty hilarious all wet and covered with bubbles. Richard got lucky and only got some minor scratches on his leg that didn't hurt really at all. That could've been a lot worse had that cat landed elsewhere. The weird thing is the cat didn't seem terribly phased by the event afterward.

Yesterday Gordo also figured out a way to get on top of the door in the bathroom. I thought he was up on the water heater b/c I noticed he'd figured that out. I went in to check b/c I heard him making some noise and he was on top of the door trying to figure out how to get back down. He did it again today. I'm not sure why. He is a very entertaining cat to say the least. Always doing something weird.

I thought you might want to see a picture of my pregnant belly! Looks like i'm carrying a basketball under my dress, but i'm not, it's my baby.

Nesting and other pregnancy updates

Yesterday we set up the crib and got a mattress for it and put all of the blankets and stuffed animals in it from the baby shower. Richard even got into the nesting. I also bought some paint on Friday and on my day off I will be hopefully painting the book shelf and dresser for Libby's room. We aren't allowed to paint the walls so we are still figuring out how to decorate the room so it's not so boring. I'm very excited. I am kind of bummed that I still have to work another couple weeks. (I trained someone to take over my receptionist job for 4 weeks and told them after 2 that she wasn't catching on, but they didn't listen until after 4 weeks when she still hadn't caught on, so I get to train someone again starting Tuesday, but this time I am only giving them 1-2 weeks). I really want to stay home and do a million projects and get everything ready for the baby, but I guess I'll have to stick it out at least another week. I'm pretty tired these days. The baby really doesn't like me to sleep though. She will go up under my ribs when I try to sleep and kick me, plus it's almost impossible to find a comfortable position with this basketball belly. I've had a few Braaxton hicks contractions, but nothing really exciting or major going on. Dr appointment tomorrow and every 2 weeks after that till the baby comes! 49 days and we'll be parents.

Gordo

For Christmas, Richard got us a kitten. It has been a lot of fun. He is kind of a crazy cat sometimes, but we love him most of the time. He is amazing at playing fetch. Better than most dogs and the ball isn't covered in spit when he brings it back. He even puts the ball back into my hand after he retrieves it. Pretty smart cat. Unfortunately like a dog, he wants to eat anything we are eating. He will jump up on the table, your lap or even right onto your plate and attempt to steal food. I even caught him licking some strawberry jam that had spilled onto the table cloth. One day he climbed my leg to try and get some cheese. He loves plastic bags and ribbon and anything that rolls or moves quickly (like toes). He isn't always hyper though, which is nice.

He really likes to cuddle and sit on our laps, which is cute. He even let Richard practice his swaddling techniques on him. I don't think most cats would tolerate that. It will be interesting when the baby comes and he has to compete for attention though. I'm a little afraid for that. (and only 49 days until Libby's due date!)

ride-along

so, a few weekends ago becky and I went to bellingham to visit her sister and family. zack is a police officer there and i have tested/applied to some departments around bremerton, so he let me go on a ride along. it was pretty neat. so friday night i met up with him around ten and that night we did some traffic stops and went to break up potential bar fights. so it was pretty fun looking up people license plate numbers to see if the car is stolen or license is suspended, and watching drunk people try to drive down the wrong way on a one way street and then cry when they get pulled over. and then because it was fun i went with zack to work on saturday night also. most of that day was really slow, but then at like 2am zack tried to pull someone over, but it ended up becoming a high speed chase. anyways, it was fun.