Almost 6 weeks old!

A lot of time has passed since my last posting. Things are good and little Kate has just gotten cuter and funnier (and maybe a bit chubbier).

This morning we shot some video of her while we were trying to make her laugh. We think that she started laughing and smiling w/in the last 24 hours or so. She had been smiling when she was falling asleep, or sometimes in her sleep, but now it looks like she is smiling at Julie and will even laugh when Julie talks baby-talk to her or laughs. (so cute)



Things are going really well, and Kate is doing great! My mom should be here tomorrow and I know that she'll be so happy to hold this little chubby angel.

Three Weeks (and then some)

Watching Dancing with the Stars Monday night. It has been an exciting couple of weeks. Julie's parents came to visit. Her sister and brother in law were also in town. Kate was super sweet.

This was my first day back at work. It was hard to be apart from the little sweetness for so long, but being back w/ the crew at Eleven Inc. made the seperation a lot easier.

Kate's First Bath

Since the grandparents (Julie's parents) are coming to town today, we decided it was time for Kate's first bath. She seemed to really enjoy it, the only part that wasn't so great was getting out of the 'tub.'

Day 9

Things are going well. Julie and the baby have just gotten cuter and cuter. I've also posted more pix to the slideshow.

It looks like the sling is going to be awesome for everyone.

First Family Photo

So here is our little family. Julie, Baby Kate, Kiki and some bald homeless guy that was walking out in the street.

As we were getting ready for bed tonight, little Kate had the hiccups. She had them a lot when she was inside Julie, but on the outside, they seem to be a lot less fun.

Julie's milk is starting to come in and it looks like the transition from colostrum to milk has gotten a lot of things moving downstairs. TMI? It is just that this baby/momma stuff is so amazing.

Good night!

D&J&K

Presenting Katherine Olivia Beck

It's about time that my parents realized that my name is Katherine Olivia Beck. I'm just now 24 hours old and am ready for the world to call me by name. Sorry for the delay.

It didn't help that Doug and Julie spent most of the day before I came out trying to figure a way to have my initials read 'ODB'
I just met my grandparents (Doug's parents) David and Sina. They seem nice.

Shimmy Shimmy Yaw Shimmy Yeah, Shimmy Yeah!

Peace and goodnight!

KOB

... and Heavenly Rest.

We are all finally back home together. Julie is laying in bed with Baby Beck working on breastfeeding. It is a whole new world figuring how to feed her when she is outside of her body and has been a little tricky, but for now, she is so sleepy and perfect that we're not going to worry about it.

We still don't have a name, we need some quiet time to see what she wants to be named. Things have been too crazy up until this point. I keep looking at her and thinking how beautiful she is and how much I love her and her mom.... so the name Julie keeps coming to mind... probably not a great idea.. probably has something to do with the 15 minutes of sleep that I've had since 3:00am Thursday morning when Julie's water broke and things started happening.

Quick update, no real need to go into details. Julie and I felt like she was making great progress towards being in active labor building up to what we thought was the 4-1-1 phase of things at around 1:00pm which was when our midwives showed up and let us know that we still had a long way to go. We we're pretty cocky and thought that we'd be done w/ baby in hand and a cleaned up house by around 6:00pm that evening. Nancy helped to manage our expectations and let us know to plan for a late night.

As soon as she and Michelle left at 2:00 and we took our walk, things started really happening and we started to go into active labor. They knew that if Julie was still chipper and able to joke between contractions, she wasn't actually in active labor. They told us to call when Julie quit laughing.

Shortly after they left, Julie quit laughing and started to have serious/strong contractions. Being in the birthing tub helped a lot, and having me press on her lower back helped her ride through the contractions. At 6:30 or so Julie wanted to try a different environment so she got out of the tub and finally worked back toward the bed in our bedroom. After just about an hour and a half a very loud very beautiful baby girl popped out to meet the world. I'm still in shock about how beautiful she is and how amazed I am when I look down into her little chubby face.

After that things got too interesting. But that is a story for another time.

Now we rest.

D&J&?