Some more Sienna pictures

Day one at home!

So today is Dec 2 , which some of you know was our actual due date. Today is also special because we came home from the hospital today at 11:00am. The nurses were all surprised that we wanted to come home so fast, but couldn't stop us because everything went perfect from start to finish.
The morning of Sienna's birth the nurse came in at 7:45am and said it was time to head over to the O.R. By 8:20am Sienna was out of Elizabeth and was getting cleaned up by the nurses. The C-section went really well but the epidural was a bit of a different story. The anesthetist had some trainee with him that morning and decided to have Elizabeth be the guinney pig. The needle was put in her spine but was too high or too strong because it travelled up into Elizabeth's lungs and chest. With her chest paralized she couldn't breath on her own and passed out which created a bit of chaos. The doctor's had to give her an antidote and start the c-section right away. So with all this going on I had no clue, I was sitting in the waiting room with my scrubs on ready to go in. The nurse came and said I better get in there quick. I through on a mask and entered just as the cut her open and were ready to pull Sienna's head out. I sat beside my wife and held her hand and heard" lets pull the head out". I peaked over the curtain and saw the doctor with his arm in Elizabeth as he pulled out our little child. Imediatly i looked the the weiner that I excpected to see and there was nothing. I thought he was partially deformed but soon came to realise that my little guy was a precious little angel. I broke down in tears(of joy)and listened to my childs first sound. She looked so gorgeous, she wasn't red or purple and she wasn't blotchy at all. The next words I heard were "look at that red hair". Red hair...red hair...don't worry she doesn't look like Ronald McDonald. It's more strawberry blonde.
After Elizabeth was sewed up Sienna immediatly started eating. She didn't need any coaxing or anything. That is how our little child has been since day one. She has eaten none stop and is so good and healthy. She eats every hour but usually once during the day will sleep for four or five hours. We hope that trend is during the night. Sienna is so good with people and doesn't cry at all if people hold her. I'm tired now so i'll sign off for now.

Sienna Elizabeth Booth

I don't have long cause I have to head back to the hospital to tend to my wife and child. We finally had our little child. Sienna was born today November 30 at 8:20am. She weighed 7lbs exactly and is 20inches long. We love her so much already she is absolutly gorgeous. I'll put more on and tell you all about the day after we get home from the hospital. Here's a few pictures.

Sienna Elizabeth Booth

I don't have long cause I have to head back to the hospital to tend to my wife and child. We finally had our little child. Sienna was born today November 30 at 8:20am. She weighed 7lbs exactly and is 20inches long. We love her so much already she is absolutly gorgeous. I'll put more on and tell you all about the day after we get home from the hospital. Here's a few pictures.

Due date and time!!!!!!!

For those of you who care to know we now know the date and time of our babies birth. It is scheduled for Thursday November 30 8:00am. That's this Thursday morning!!! We're ready as we ever will be and can't wait to see this little one. The next entry I put on might very well have a picture of our new son/daughter. That's all for now, if you have any ideas on names for the baby let us know.

Christmas Tree/Snow day

Today I started the day off at 7:00am like normal. The difference was the dump load of snow we got over night. I went out to my work van, started it up and headed out. I thought I was doing pretty good considering I made it all the way up our road and around the corner....well almost. As I turned the corner my stupid van took a slide one way and then the other. After I came to a stop I realized I was in a ditch and not going anywhere. My van was completely sideways and blocking half the road. I went home and grabbed a shovel and began digging an area around my dumb van. Long story short I got my van out, drove it home and got in my jogging pants for a snow day.
We decided to take advantage of the day and decorate for Christmas, Tree and all. I love our tree and think that the house looks better than ever for baby's first Christmas.

Some people have been asking and wondering about Elizabeth and where we stand. The latest is that we've decided and have informed the doctor that we don't want the manual baby flip procedure(I'm sure there's a scientific term for it). We don't want to risk anything going wrong during it, no matter how small the chance. We are going forward with booking a C-section and still praying that baby flips on it own when it's good and ready. If we have to do a C-section than you can bet on the birthday being some time this weekend. If the baby flips last minuite than we will be waiting for contractions to start and for Elizabeth to go into natural labour. That's as specific as it gets for now. I'll keep you posted.

Christmas Banquet and Snow.

Friday we headed up to Ladysmith for some sweet Christmas banquet action. It was a lot of fun, laughs, and great food. We had turkey and ham at the same time. Elizabeth's dad was MC and Naomi was the musical lead, her voice was quite angelic.
So after the banquet night we woke up to 6 inches of snow on the ground. It has been snowing ever since. That was Ladysmith which always gets more snow than Victoria. On our way back to Victoria we thought that it would be just rainy and wet here, but not at all. Victoria got some snow as well.
This is the Durango outside the Cowley house. I must say that our new truck dominates the snow. I drove all the way back to Victoria in 4H and didn't have any problems. We also drove all around a Christmas tree farm today along snow covered dirt roads with no problem.

This is the malahat. Not a plow in site. By the way my pet peave is little stupid cars trying to be heros by going on the malahat and holding up all the traffic by sliding around and spinning into the ditch.

One last thing is that we did, was get our Christmas tree today, but not from the tree farm. We ended up getting it from Home Depot and it's really fat and nice. I'll put pictures of it after we decorate it, maybe tomorrow.

Welcome to my crib!!!!!!

Tonight we got the crib for our son/daughter. It's beautiful, white and really cute. We are so thankful for it and can't wait to lay the little one down. I'm really tired so i'll go now. Not long now!!!!!
Me putting together the crib. Obviously.
Here's me realizing I should have put the crib together in the bedroom because it wouldn't fit through the door. I had to take it apart to get it in.
This is mom getting practice. Elizabeth is going to be a great mom to our lucky little child. She is so loving all the time no matter what ,and I am so thankful for her.
Dad and Bev bought us the crib/mattress and bedding set, they went kind of overboard but we are thankful for the gifts. I noticed I said "thankful" a few times tonight it must be 'cause of USA Thanksgiving. Later.

Elizabeth in all her pregnant glory

This is a picture of Elizabeth I took tonight. I was trying to get some cool maternity pictures but this was the only one that turned out half decent.

New due date?? could be...

So we went to our ultrasound appointment today @ 2:30 at VGH. Everything with the baby is healthy and strong except for one little thing. The little stinker decided that it was going to do the old flip over trick and go all breech on us. So it's butt is down south and with only 2 weeks to go until the due date the doctor says it's most likely not going to flip back around. Long story short, we can pray that the little brat turn around or else C-section. Elizabeth wanted to avoid it at all costs but since she can't birth a baby bumb first we will probably be having the baby next Friday or soon there after. They do the C-section at 39 weeks and she is 38 right now. Maybe send out a few prayers our way for what ever happens in the next week. Thanks. We did get another picture of the baby at the ultrasound. The kid looks like it has huge lips and a wide nose. It is 6 lbs and has long legs. Soon we will see once and for all.

Really exciting entry!!!!!!!!!!!

So today is a great day. Something so rare and awsome happened that doesn't happen very often in Victoria this time of year. Sunshine!!!!!!! We saw the sun for the first time in a long time today. The ground was actually dry for a change. I had to take a few pictures to remember this special moment.
This is BLUE sky. Not grey or white but blue.
This is the sun

This is dry pavement.

Moving on to more lifechanging matters, Elizabeth had another doctors appointment today. It turns out that Elizabeth's little frame is causing the baby to be cramped and the Doctor wants to make sure everything is O.K. I guess Elizabeth's belly isn't growing as fast as the baby's little body is. They are sending Elizabeth for another ultrasound just to make sure all is well. The Doc says things are fine, the heart rate is 148 and it feels good in the belly, but better to be safe than sorry. We could end up having another baby picture soon!!!! You all will be the first to see the picture.

1st baby shower. Ever!!!!

Elizabeth was surprised tonight with an unexpected baby shower at Nicole's. We had planned to go over to J&N's for some desert, so she thought, but showed up to a house full of ladies. This was a small shower with a bunch of close friends of her's, not the full blown family and friends shower that usually go on. Elizabeth did pretty good, she got a bunch of essentials for when the kid first arrives. Thanks to everyone who was there and thanks for the great gifts. It makes me stress out a little bit less knowing we have diapers and poo poo wipes.

As you can see Elizabeth's still little belly is quite a bit bigger. We have 3 weeks to go until our baby's birthday. Shoooooot. I'm o.k. Seriously.......I'm totally not going to have a panic attack or anything. Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha.

It's cold wet and dark!! We dream of California

This weekend was a really wet rainy cold gross weekend. Sometime I can't stand the rainy winters here. Victoria in the summer is the best, Victoria in the fall/winter... not so much. Friday night Elizabeth couldn't sleep much because of the baby and I couldn't sleep much because of vomiting, so early Saturday morning we headed out for some fresh air. We wen't to Goldstream to check out the Salmon run. I don't know if we were early or late but there wasn't to many. The one's that were there were big suckers though.Here's a couple of pics from the morning.

Elizabeth update

Here is sweet little Elizabeth at 35 weeks. I think this is as big as she's gonna get so all you hoping for a 70 pound gain, sorry. She has gained 24lbs overall though, which is up from what we had thought before. Everything is still going well and Elizabeth is fealing fine. Beth has put her Maternity leave notice in for Nov.15 to be her last day of work. I will probably take a week or two off when little Pablo comes along, maybe more I don't really know. Not long now!!!
What a beautiful Mom to be

Very scary pumpkin carvings.....well not so much.

Tonight we spent the night hackin' away at a couple pumpkins for halloween. Ben and Sarah came over and we carved and had roasted pumpkin seeds mmmm. Personally I felt that my pumkin was the best one but you all can be the judge. Pumkin #1 Ben's oriental man vomiting.
Pumpkin #2 Sarah's horrifically scary kitty cat. Notice the frightening heart shaped nose.
Pumpkin # 3 is my Halo 2(it's a video game for you not in the know).
Last but not least is the most wonderful, splendid, fantastic one of all. It belongs to beautiful Elizabeth. It is a picaso inspired self portrait of herself as a pregnant mother to be. Some may not be able to notice it right away but you obviously don't have an artistic mind.
If you still can't see it, it's a side profile of a pregnant lady but she's headless.Oooo scary!!

Something for us,something for baby.

Here the pic of our new TV finally. We were using a wee 19" for a while but now we have our 42" plasma hdtv. Our place seems a lot bigger with the TV on the wall, it really opens up the space. Anyways more importantly I also painted the baby room this weekend with the help of Chris Driebergen. He did all the hard work like cutting in and the trim and I just rolled it on. The room looks so good with the green with bright white trim. The colour is called Christopher Robbins Swing made by Disney. We got a change table Friday also white, now were just waiting on the crib and we'll have the room pretty much done. We're getting pretty anxious to have the baby and see what it looks like and how it behaives. Elizabeth is doing good still, She's gained 24 pounds and the baby's heart rate is 130 which means BOY. The baby is also apparently quite long(21"), no surprise there looking at it's parents. Anyways 6 weeks and counting, but if the baby comes when I expect it to it will be only 4 weeks. I just read what I wrote and I really write in segmented sentences don't I. Oh well who care it's my blog. And I. Will. Write. How I . want!!!! See ya!

I'm thankful for...

We hope everyone had a great thanksgiving weekend, and you stuffed your faces with Tryptophen filled turkey, mashed potatoes with gravy and spiced stuffing. We had the privilege of having 2 turkey dinners, One @ the Lindoffs and one @ the Cowleys. We didn't get any left overs which is the best part but oh well.

Here's the fellas trying to put together a table and chairs the Brisco's got for Rebekah's birthday. I didn't actually take very many picture on the weekend so I don't have any to show, sorry. Well this entry is boring me to tears so I'll go for now. This weekend coming up is our 8 hour marathon lamaze class. Wish me luck, hopefully I won't puke/pass out or cry.

Update on Elizabeth is..... nothing's changed. She is very healthy and so is the baby. The whole pregnancy has gone very well and we are coming to the end. I figure this would be a good time to announce my guess for the due date. I guess November 17 @ 11:55PM exactly. That's right two weeks early. We would like to hear your guess for the due date if you guess correctly you could win a weekend of your choice of babysitting. Let us know your guess via comments.

New Ride!!!

So with the baby on it's way our 1991 honda accord just wasn't going to cut it. The car was more than good to us over the last while but it had 340,000kms, no muffler, a cracked windshield, and it started to blow blue smoke. We went to this KIA dealership where Elizabeth's old boss works now(She's the daughter of the owner). Long story short we drove a couple vehicles and fell in love with this 1999 Dodge Durango. It is a tough looking truck but stylish enough for Elizabeth. Elizabeth was the one who found it by the way. Anyways, it's a bit of a gas guzzler considering the V8 5.2 litre magnum engine. We love it and are happy to have a reliable nice car finally(We also got a four year warranty with it).