Namesake

I realized that in my last post about Claire, I didn't mention her namesake. Her first name is just a name Andy and I agreed on! Now her middle was originally going to be Noel, named after my dad, Leon. However, the day Claire decided to arrive ended up being the same day as my Aunt Diane who passed away before I was born. And as many of you know, Diane is also my middle name. So after she arrived, Andy and I decided to change her middle name to Diane!

Welcome Claire Diane!

She has finally arrived! Beautiful Claire was born on April 21st, 2010 @ 6:41am. She was 7 lbs and 19 1/2 inches. I had had a doctors appointment on Tuesday afternoon. Dr. Martin said my cervix was ready, but wanted to schedule an induction before I was past 41 weeks. The induction was set for Thursday at 6am. However, little miss Claire decided to come before that, which thrilled me because I didn't want to be induced! I started having contractions about 1:15am. By 4 they were about 5-10 minutes apart so I woke Andy up and called Mark to come over. We left the house around 4:30 and arrived on Labor and Delivery about 5am. When they got me all checked in they checked my cervix and I was about 5cm dilated. By 6am labor was in full swing and they called the doctor. Dr. Martin wasn't working so they called Dr. Friesen, whom I'd never met. At that point, however, I didn't care. I just wanted to get her out! By the time Dr. Friesen got there I was ready to push. One contraction later and she was out!!

My parents brought Isaiah up in the evening and he was very excited to meet his sister. He gave her quite a few kisses and held her on his lap for a while. He's very glad to have her at home now, as are Andy and I. I'm not used to a child who just eats and sleeps and can't wait to watch her grow and learn!

Halloween at the Zoo

Okay, so I know it's not Halloween, and the zoo's note even open yet, but right now that is Isaiah favorite book! It's a pop-up book he got for Halloween last year that we've been reading a lot lately. Well last night, he read it to me! It was the cutest thing! I helped him turn the pages and he 'read' each page! Although when he got to the last page he tried to pull the sliding tab and broke it, so now last page say 'I broke it', instead of what it really says!

Happy Easter!

We enjoyed Easter this year a couple different times. We celebrated as a family by dying eggs together. Isaiah really wanted to stick his hands in the cups of dye, but we kept him from getting too messy! He 'helped' daddy dye a couple eggs more than one color by holding onto daddy's arm while daddy held the egg in the dye. It was cute! He was very proud of his eggs.

We also celebrated with my family on Saturday. We went out to mom and dad's in the afternoon and Isaiah had his first Easter egg hunt. It was VERY windy out that day, so we didn't stay outside too long, even though Isaiah really wanted to swing and watch papa drive the tractor around in circles!

Lastly, on Sunday the Easter bunny came and brought Isaiah new sand toys and a lawn mower. It blows bubbles, but we haven't shown him that yet!:-) Andy's family also came over and went to church with us. After naptime Isaiah had another Easter egg hunt. It was a much nicer day this time! And the eggs he found had quarters in them. He quickly put each one in his pocket...all 12 of them! We then had to find him a piggy bank to put them in...and take them out...and put them in ...and take them out...