photo update of miss Olive.

1 week

8 days and hanging with Nana

6 days

10 days

12 days

Official 1st photo shoot still to come.

she's here!

3 days old

Just checked into Labor and Delivery

Recovering with Olive in the Mother and Baby room

6 hours old and perfectly lovely

After an eventful day and 2 hospital trips (no I wasn't being over anxious about delivery), our baby girl arrived on Sunday February 8th. She weighed 7 lbs 7 oz. and is 19 1/2in. long.
Here's the story.
Saturday morning Spencer went for a run with my brother Nate at the reservoir. I got up to take a shower and had a (drop me to my knees and want to die) pain on the left side of my back. I crawled on my knees to the phone and called the doctor who told me to go straight to the hospital. Spencer arrived home shortly after the call (thank goodness) and we headed downtown. After being admitted and tested and monitored they concluded that I had birthed/passed not a baby, but a kidney stone. What? The day before my due date?I've never had a kidney stone before. After spending a couple of hours being monitored and concluding that the worst part was over, they sent us back home.
Later that evening Spencer and I decided to go to Park Meadows mall to "walk." They say that walking a lot can sometimes induce labor. Well, we walked for a couple of hours and then decided to get dinner at the Nordstrom cafe. One margarita pizza and two steps later my water broke. (A girl after my own heart, I love Nordstrom!) I somewhat panicked as we were in public and at Nordstrom after all, but Spencer kept assuring me that nobody would notice and we quickly headed for the car. Back at the hospital by 7pm, we were admitted again, but this time for all of the right and much anticipated reasons. After...all the fun things you do during labor, Olive Claire Marshall was born at 2:34am on February 8th, her due date. We brought her home on Monday evening, and are enjoying being home together as a family.

the nursery

Since I'm off work this week, Spencer and I have been busy finishing up the nursery. There are still a couple of projects in the works, (something for the side table and a couple of photographs of course), but I thought I'd post a few photos of where we are right now. I wish we could have painted, but it's a rental, so white walls will have to do.
We've heard that babies see best when things are high contrast, and that babies in yellow nurseries tend to have happier dispositions. Who knows, but when we saw this bedding we were sold.
We're on a bit of a budget so we ended up making most of the decorative elements. We're really happy with the way the mobile turned out, but I'd have to say that my favorite part is Spencer's sketch. What a talented husband I have!
Now all we need is our baby girl, 5 days and counting...