Happy New Year

Eva and Uncle Jon




Ella's OH MY face! Her stuff from Santa.

Grandma Mary bought this too cute dress at the Gap for Eva.


Ella and her baby, they had matching dresses....too cute!

Sorry I haven't posted yet this week. We still have family here and are pretty busy. Ella loves her grandma and is still playing shy around Uncle's and Auntie. I am trying to get a few things accomplised before I am all alone with the girls. We haven't ventured out too much because its cold out and I don't want to take Eva out. We did make it to the mall one day while the boys were in Cleveland at the Browns game and Cavaliers game. We had a very merry Christmas, Ella didn't really understand the whole gift idea. She just wanted to play with the one she opened, she could care less about the ones still wrapped. We thought we better get the video camera out to catch her facials and words but she was boring so that lasted about 2 minutes...maybe next year. I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday! I wish everyone a Happy New Year.

Mom left :o(

Eva's 1st bath; She didn't seem too mind it; but didn't love it either.



Well 2 weeks sure went fast, mom flew out this morning. It seems so wrong considering the holidays are right around the corner. Well it's a good thing I have 2families now because the Lindahls will be here on Wednesday so only 2 days alone then more company. Mom and I sure had lots of fun times and good laughs. I wish we could have spent more time talking and bonding but that time was spent sleeping. I am exhausted but mom sure helped a lot by letting me sleep extra by taking care of Eva. I'm sure she will be glad to get home and finally get a good night of rest. Thanks again mom for everything; I wouldn't have survived the last 2 weeks without you.
Evan and I went to a movie on Thursday, it was probably one of the last times we'll ever get out by ourselves. We saw "New Moon" and I thought it was great, Evan tolerated it.
It was only us girls this last weekend because Evan went to North Carolina for a Vikings game. We had our 1st heavy snow so Ella and I went out on Saturday and made a snowman. She really loved that!




It's also been very nice here so grandma and Ella took a few walks just to get out of the house. We finished baking on Sunday to complete my holiday goodies. Good thing the Lindahl's are coming to help eat because there are a lot of them. Well I hope everyone has a safe and happy holidays!

Ella and Eva are really gonna miss their grandma! :o(

Santa

Ella some how figured out how to suction the candle to her face.










Ella likes to take my breast pads and put them on her belly button; it's super cute!


We have been staying fairly busy without leaving the house. It's that time of the year for baking so we have been busy doing that. I have felt great and ran around the first part of the week but by Wednesday I had some really bad cramps, I guess I was doing too much. The Dr. said I was allowed to do everything but if I over did it I would pay for it. That I did! Thank God for mom, I sat on the couch most of Thursday and part of Friday to help recover. It helped! Wednesday we took the girls to see Santa, Ella hated him and Eva was sleeping. They sure are precious pictures though. On Friday we had family pictures taken that also turned out great. Ella was such a good little girl. This weekend we did some Christmas shopping and just layed around. Mom is enjoying her granddaughters and the weather. We here it's been very chilly up in ND, here not so much. Maybe I can persuade mom and dad to move here! :o) Ella has been really good with Eva, she doesn't have control of her little hands so she's a little rough but not bad. She usually just wants to look at her. A nurse came for a home visit on Thursday to see how Eva and I were doing. I checked out fine and Eva did too. We were surprised to find out she had gained lots of weight already; she was 7lbs 5oz. The nurse said I didn't have to wake her during the nights so thats nice. She has been sleeping fairly well, usually 4-5 hours before waking. I usually only have to get up twice with her. Ella has been doing great at nights too, I was afraid in such a little apartment that she would hear the baby crying and get woken up also, but nope. She does just fine! Thank God!

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1st week of craziness

Sisterly love

We bought Ella this stroller for her babies so she could take care of them while I was taking care of my baby.


Well I am surviving my first week of craziness; thanks to mom. I acutally feel pretty good, except for a little sleep deprivation. Ella loves her little sister and wants to look at her all the time. Her first reaction to her was shock, she just screamed "BABY" So I think she understood that the baby in my belly was this baby and it is now her sister. It has been hard to give each of them the one on one time I think they deserve but it will all work out. Ella demands a lot of attention so right now baby Eva hangs out by herself. It's a good thing she sleeps a lot. She is a very good baby so far, sleeps 3-4 hours at night so have only been getting up with her twice. It's great! She is also a great eater and latches on real easily. She doesn't cry unless she's hungry or cold which is a big difference from Ella when she was a baby. I knew I was due for an easy child! Thank God he brought me one; well lets just hope she stays that way. We are loving life and are so blessed to have another healthy baby girl in our family.

Eva Nicole Lindahl

We welcomed Eva Nicole into the world on Dec. 3rd at 4:39am. I started having contrations around 8pm on Wednesday night and by 1am we were at the hospital; 3 hours later Eva was born. It was a very quick delivery, which was great. I had an epidural but unfortunately it didn't work so I felt everything! Not such a great experience but it was a quick one and no complications so I was happy. She was 6lbs 14 oz. and 20 in. Since Eva and I were in such great shape we were released from the hospital this morning around 11am. I was happy to be home with Ella so shortly after delivering Eva. I missed her tremendously.