Baby Taylor

baby is here

My little girl is here as of Wednesday and I seem to be healing nicely.She came with a full head of hair, one mouth, 2 beautiful eyes and is as precious as she is in the picture.More later...

Babys a comin' soon

Today Stephen was crossing out the days on the calender and he realized that our due date is 4 days from now. I thought we were just trying and walking and that we had 1 or 2 weeks to go still said Steve. I was really surprised, I thought that he knew how long we had to go. It will be exciting to see him with our little girl.

I am getting really excited-I can't believe that it is almost time. She feels so big now as she presses her feet against me as if to say-I'm almost ready mom, there is no room left in here! I try to keep the house clean, I want it to be relaxing when I go into labor and have plenty of food around the house for my husband to eat.He eats like a horse (you wouldn't believe it but, he does).

Am I ever going to have a baby?

Sometimes I feel like I am never going to have a baby.I know that's not true but, it feels like I have been waiting forever.My adorable husband tries to be encouraging- after all he can see the truth that I won't be pregnant forever.For me it is just like why haven't I had the baby yet?

He is really wonderful and patient with me. He rubs my back, endures me crying, and he even made dinner last night! (Maybe he just knows that I won't be like this forever-and that's why he can deal with me now!).I have decided that I am ready to have the baby anytime now, so look for an update with a birth story and pictures in the future -after all she will be here whenever she gets tired of her current home.

In the meantime, I have to get rid of my stuck in limbo feeling and do stuff. I am making Christmas presents for my sisters, trying to get back to the hang of cooking, and making cloth diapers (this is a project that I haven't really started but, I'll have some soon). Yesterday, I went to the auction with one of my sister in laws and walked around all day.

Making diapers!

So Amanda and I are going to try to make our own diaper covers out of wool sweaters..pure wool..those took an hour of examining tags at the thrift store for us to find..I'll let you know how they turn out..in the meantime ...My friend Elisabeth is giving away one of her own homemade diapers at this blog..her diaper looks incredibly cute..maybe she will share some of her secrets to diaper making with me..
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a dilemma?

I wanted to blog two different things today -I already blogged about the dress that I made for Taylor (which I love and couldn't have done without my sister in law).I wanted to blog about the birth, I am having a home birth. I find it abnormal when people tell me that I am brave-in reality i am not-this baby is coming out one way or another and homebirth is so normal to me that unless I was dying I would not go to the hospital. My mom had her first home birth when I was 12.

My only dilemma was the fact that a few people have asked that I call them when I am in labor.Now I really want to relax when I am in labor and I know most of the people won't be offended by not knowing...I am sure they'll appreciate the fact that I don't wake them up in the middle of the night.There is only one person that might be offended-but, they get offended at everything but, honestly for my own sake I don't want them called because I really don't want them calling me 12 hours later and either discouraging my labor by asking if she is here yet or,disturbing my rest because I have already had her. I am sure that they will be offended and won't understand but, I think that I am ok with that-I think this is one case where I have to be a little selfish and not think about them.

The important people that are going to be there are Amanda, Betty the main midwife, Stephen, Crissy and me.

a Taylor dress..

We made a reversible dress for Taylor Grace.This took forever-my plan is for her to wear it to a wedding in early December. The material is leftover from a civil war ballgown that I made for myself (light blue) and a Jane Austen era dress that I made (dark blue). i used chinese style buttons on both side of the dress.It seems like I spend way more time and care making little girl clothes than I do my own..I wonder why?

It took me forever..but, I broke into my blog again!

So I haven't written in forever..it took me an hour and a half to break into it and I was about to create a new blog.Well, I finally did it.

If you can believe it, I only have 12 days left till the due date.It's November I can't believe it...one of the only things that I am disappointed about is the fact that I won't be able to cook all the delicious Thanksgiving food that I would like to but, I am cooking up something better a baby girl...Taylor Grace!

To update you-

In September my sister inlaws had a huge baby shower for me-as you can see from the shelf full of baby gifts below.
In October I took my nephews to the pumpkin patch.We enjoyed all the fun activities..thanks to a generous friend.