Lily Anna Olmstead was born on Saturday, August 14, 2010 at 12:44 p.m.  She was a quick delivery! Phew!! haha She weighed 7lbs 6oz and was 20.5in long.  She is a perfectly healthy little girl.  We were only in the hospital for one night before coming home.  It was hard staying away from Kayla and is still hard not being able to do all the things I was able to do w/ Kayla while in my recovery stage.. but soon enough I'll be back to normal. :)

Kayla wasn't too interested in Lily... at the hospital she looked at her a bit but then started to find things to get into.  She was quite jealous when Lily first came home but we think she is getting used to it.  She can even say Lily's name... well it certainly sounds like it anyway! :)

Kayla meeting Lily for the first time..

The two grandma's loving my two girls <3

Mama and Lily

I'm going home w/ a BABY!! wahoo!! :)

Grandma and my girls <3

Nina and my girls <3

Mama w/ her two girls <3 (I was saying where is Dada so she would look at the camera, and of course I ended up not looking at the camera.. haha

"Kayla, where are Lily's fingers?" :)

Lily Anna Olmstead <3

It's been quite a while since I last posted.. I've been a blog slacker lately!  I guess it just gets harder to post the older the kiddo gets.. :)  But soon there will be two kiddos!  HOPEFULLY SOON! I'm 5 days away from my due date and have only had the slightest bit of contractions- one here, one there... sometimes 10 min apart and then they disappear.. and it's only when I'm out doing something.  I guess I should ALWAYS be out doing something so I can get this labor started! Jeez-a-loo!  I'm not the best pregger person you've ever met- I hate being preggers.. I LOVE the outcome, but not so much the waiting.  But it's hard to sit here and complain that I'm still preggers when I know a lot of you out there don't get to keep your baby in as long as needed...so I do consider myself lucky that she'll be hopefully healthy as pie.  I think Kayla understands a little bit about my belly- but I'm sure she'll still be really surprised when I bring home a new baby- and I bet she'll be a little upset too. :( Poor girl!

Speaking of my little girl, Kayla does talk a little now- she did not qualify for early intervention speech therapy.  I am glad, but also a little disappointed.. bc if she was going to get help, that would have been awesome.  However, they said she was too "bright".  She does the intonation of everything we say- but doesn't have the right sounds yet.  Just a bit ago I was telling her to yell "come out lily" and she was, but only I would know that! haha She does say "mama", "dada", and "nana"- which is "nina"... and "baba" HOWEVER she will only use "Dada" correctly and incorrectly.  She can say "mama" but won't call me mama.  Jer's new trick is to ask Kayla who she loves more- Mama or Dada- and of course since she'll only say Dada she says DADA! what a dork! :) (jer that is) :)  So another example would be her golf clubs- she LOVES her stinkin golf clubs- but she calls them da....da.  So I know the different btwn her da da's... but some ppl wouldn't.  It's hard, but she's getting there. :) She talks all the time- especially when she is in her crib supposedly sleeping! :)

Summer has been great- again, not a fan of being big fat pregger lady during this hot summer, but other than that Kayla and I have had a great time.  Swimming, swinging, and playing w/ cousins.  She has been able to see all of her cousins this summer, the last set to come next week... which is fantastic seeing how last summer I wouldn't let her near anyone.  So this has been a blast for her.  She loves to play w/ kids... we went to the beach the other day, and a mother came over w/ her 3 older kids, 5 and older, and Kayla would not stop running over to them... Jer I think was getting a little embarrassed of having to run over and keep grabbing her, but she had a good time. :)  Of course I didn't have my camera either.. :(

As I sit here and type, Kayla is supposed to be sleeping, nap time... no- she is sitting up and saying "mama", "baba", "lala"... ! Goof ball!

Kayla and her cousins.. :) Next week she'll be able to play w/ Julian and Jack..can't wait! :)

Kayla and Alaina 

Me and Alyssa :) 

Kayla and Maddy

Kayla and Jacob

This past Sunday Jerry, Kayla and I went to Auburn, NY for a family fun day.  I know most of you are thinking, Auburn?? haha It's ok, we had a meeting there on Monday so we went down the day before.  We got to stop at the D'Angelo's for a couple hours.  Kayla had a great time playing in their water fun park in their front yard. :)  She got a couple of hugs from Mr. Charlie too. :) After our visit w/ the D'Angelo's we went to our hotel and had some dinner in an Irish Pub (my hubby's choice).  Then we went to the pool and Kayla had a blast.  She was shivering but do you think she wanted out? haha no way!! This girl is a fish!! :) She was even jumping off the side of the pool into Daddy's arms!  Of course Jer kept one hand on her hand at all times! For some reason Kayla LOVES hotels.  She runs from one end to the other all night.. putting her down to sleep is an issue tho.  She can't see me or Jerry... so there has to be a part in the room where we can put her where she can't see us.  She'll cry and cry- but eventually she'll go to sleep.  But Jer and I have to be VERY quiet!

Our trip home (3.5 hours-ish) Kayla was awful! She cried so much!  When we got home, she was much happier, and then it was bed time.  Around 10:30ish Kayla woke up crying hysterically.  However, Jer and I did not go get her bc sometimes that makes it much worse.  She feel back asleep only to wake up 2 min later and cough a little and then vomit a whole lot!! :( Jer and I RAN up the stairs, I grabbed K as she was sooo upset and Jer cleaned up the mess.  I got K downstairs and she was fantastic while I cleaned her up and then rocked in the chair w/ me for quite a bit.  She was trembling a bit so we got her some water and then went back upstairs.  She slept fine the rest of the night until 6:30 a.m. when she woke up crying again and then gagging.  I ran into the room and sat her on the floor w/ a blanket underneath.  Thank goodness nothing came out but she was obviously not feeling her best.  After about an hour of milk, she puked again- big time! However after that, she has been doing well.  I did get her into her pediatrician who listened to her and said she sounded good.  She said bowels are being heard where they need to be, ears look good, and fever is low enough to be called a normal temp.  We are still feeding her bland food and making her milk bottles about half but more often to keep it down.  We are hoping she sleeps well through the night and the bug is gone!

I guess you could say Jer and I have been a lot less of germaphobes... We take her to Walmart, restaurants, I stopped showering after work and just changed my clothes, and she's been around a bunch of kids in crowded places.  I just want her to be exposed to the germs, but not get the sick part.. guess I can't have it my way... :)

Other than the bug, Kayla is doing great!! :) We are still waiting for her to say some real words, other than uh-oh and hi.  But I'm getting less and less worried as she is communicating in the beginning stages that most of your babies did earlier on. :)  Kayla does things in her OWN time..!

Here are some cute pics of her that I have also posted on FB- so sorry if they are doubles for some of you! :)

Kayla in Nina and Papa's pool- silly fish!! :)

Loves chairs!! She's so goofy!! 

Charlie and Kayla (love them!)

Yum Yum pasta pick ups! :)