Annah's 1st Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving was very special this year.  It was Annah's first long trip. 
  She slept all the way to Grandma & Grandpa McEowen's house, met all 4 of her Great Grandmas and lots more of her relatives, slept overnight in a "new" place (for 4 nights!), and started sleeping through the night!  Needless to say, we're looking forward to Christmas!

4 generations

 2 new grandpas with their daughters and their first grandchildren

our first family portrait

Announcing Annah

        Annah's picture is up at the hospital website now!  Thanks to Mandy for turning in our consent form!! :)  Here she is!

      

Annah Christine
Born at 12:01 p.m. on Tuesday, October 31, 2000 .
At Mount Carmel East Hospital, in Columbus, Ohio .
Weight: 8 pounds, 12.8 ounces
Height: 21 inches

 We also have some pictures of Annah meeting her family:

Daddy love

Grandma L

Grandma Mc

Grandpa Mc

Uncle Travis

Erin and Uncle Trav

 Uncle Travis gave Annah her first Purdue gear--a hooded towel.

Quiet baby

   We just wanted to let those of you who have been waiting and searching for Annah's picture at the hospital's website know that it is probably not going to be up for a few more days now.  But, at least now we know why!...  We found the consent form for putting her picture on the internet yesterday.  We didn't even know we had it, and thought we had already signed a consent form.  SO, we'll get that to the hospital and hopefully they'll put up her picture quickly.  In the meantime, we're working on getting some of our own pictures developed and will try to have some of those online this week sometime if possible.  We're so sorry about the confusion! 

        Annah is doing very well.  She's a quiet baby almost all of the time.  The past 2 nights it has been pretty tough to get her to sleep, but we think it was just gas. ;-)  She gets more adorable all of the time. 

Annah Christine!

     As you have probably heard already, our little one, Annah Christine, has arrived.  She is beautiful and is doing very well!  She had her first visit to the pediatricians office yesterday and has already gained an ounce over her birth weight!  She's a very calm and quiet baby so far, and eats and sleeps a lot. 

        We know many of you have been looking for Annah's picture at the hospital website.  It should be posted any time now, and we're not sure exactly what the hold-up is.  Just keep checking; and hopefully you'll see her soon.  We'll try to send an e-mail to you all letting you know once its up. 

         More details of Annah's birth and first days should be coming soon...once Mommy is feeling up to making more additions to the webpage. 

Keep waiting

  The doctor now says he doesn't think the baby is going to decide to arrive on its own before next week.  So, we scheduled another appointment for Tuesday the 31st, and are going to keep waiting.

No big news yet

waiting...    We know you're looking for "the big news," but it hasn't happened yet!  We are still waiting and hoping it will be very soon.  I have a doctor's appointment this afternoon, and we are anxious to find out what progress there has been over the past week. 

       Electricians have been working in our house over the past two days.  Hopefully we will be able to hook up our computer tonight.  That will enable us to keep you updated! 


       Keep checking back!  There should be some exciting news soon! 

False Labor

   Well, we thought we were going to have the baby over the weekend, but it's just not quite ready yet.  I did have some false labor with a lot of back pains and some small, short contractions during the night on Thursday, and we thought it might be the beginning of labor.  But, I took the afternoon off Friday and rested and felt better on Saturday.  So, now we're back to waiting again.  The doctor says we "could labor at any time" though! 

      We will try to keep you all updated.  However, we don't have our computer hooked up at home due to some electrical work we are waiting to have done.  So, if we do have the baby soon, it might be some time before we're able to update the website.  If  you don't hear from us or from someone else, you should be able to find the baby's picture on the hospital website here: http://www.mountcarmelhealth.com/LittleMiracles/index.htm

I have another doctor's appointment scheduled for Thursday 10/26.

Full Moon

ll mWell, today is a full moon, and some have predicted that the baby might arrive today.  As of 10:00 a.m. it doesn't seem very likely though.  Situations can change at any moment though. 
     On Tuesday, Jeremy's (Health Underwriting) unit from State Farm took us out to a very nice lunch at Ruby Tuesday's in Heath.  It was quite an enjoyable time, and we were once again showered with gifts for the baby.  Those "Farmers" really go all out to show how much they care, and we appreciate the support and thoughtfulness. 

Over the Moon

       We enjoyed seeing many of you this past weekend at the little bit of Capital's homecoming we were able to get to! 
      Our main goal for the weekend was to get the nursery ready, and we were successful.  The theme is "Over the Moon."  The doctor says the baby could be here any day now! 

Unpacking

Our weekend went by quite quickly, as most weekends seem to do!  We're still plugging away trying to get things unpacked, although we've been informed by many, many people that unpacking is supposed to take a couple of years. 
      
Possibly the strangest thing that has happened since we moved into our house has been a little problem with our phone line.  Not only did it take 5 phone calls to Ameritech to have our old number switched to the house, but this weekend, they switched our number with a neighbor's number!  We have been receiving calls for "Amber" for 3 days, and have probably been making calls that will appear on her phone bill!  We have no idea how it happened, but if you've tried to call us lately, we hope you enjoyed talking to our neighbors!  We're hoping it'll be fixed today. 
    
On Sunday, Taryn's co-workers from Capital gave a very, very nice baby shower.  Again, we are just amazed by the support we receive from everyone, and we greatly appreciate all of the help in preparing for this little one!