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Friday, July 11, 2008

4:30am





More photos from Carla's BIRTHday! (4am)




Helping the nurse!


Here is a link to our blog from when Anna was born. It begins when she is a week or so old, and you can see the day she was born if you scroll way down to the bottom. Enjoy!

One more


Look at that blond hair! She has blue eyes and likes to chew her fingers.

Another picture

length

19 3/4 inches

Carla Mae Grossner

8 lbs 10.4 oz!!!
2:54 AM July 11

Closer

2:30 am and 9 cm

Water broken

It's 2:05 am and Colleen's water just broke.

More dilated

8 cm...

Thursday, July 10, 2008

Birthing stats looking good

6 cm dilated
100% effaced
0 station

At the hospital

Just getting checked in!

Going to the Hospital

We're off to the hospital! Wish me luck!

Baby update

Well, I was due on Monday and was 2.5 cm dilated, 60-70% effaced, and "still posterior".

Today, we found out I was 3.5 cm dilated, 80-90% effaced, and the head was much further down and seemed to be in better position. I was hooked up to a monitor to check that the baby was still "happy" inside of me and he or she looks "nice and happy" in there for now, but hopefully not for long! Dr. Slotta also stripped my membranes again (she did this on Monday for the first time). She was very optimistic about my progress, and hopes to see me soon in the hospital!

Either way, I'm going to be having this baby by Sunday when I will be induced at 9am if I haven't gone into labor by then. I will be 41 weeks pregnant and there are risks with waiting longer than that. If the baby is born on Sunday, he or she will get to share birthdays with his or her cousin Violetta, so that will be fun!

Stay tuned and hopefully we will be meeting this little sweetheart inside of me in the very near future!

Friday, July 04, 2008

Happy 4th of July!


Here is a slide show of our lovely (though a little cool) day down at Uncle Bob's! Still no baby!...check out my huge belly -- I didn't know it was THAT big!

Saturday, June 28, 2008

Baby update

Colleen is due in 9 days-we'll update this Web page when we go to the hospital!

Tuesday, June 17, 2008

Found a Froggy Friend at the Zoo



Anna loves the rhinos!


Our first visit to the bears this summer :)

Playing with Aunt Genni

and then watching Daddy's soccer game!

Monday, June 16, 2008

Carson & Barnes Circus comes to Geneva!

Anna and everybody loved the circus! Anna was a little scared at first, but then she was glued to every act! Her favorite was the ladies in the ladies in the rainbow dresses. Someday you'll see a video of Anna singing in Grandma's car afterward - she was quite the entertainment!






Sunday, June 15, 2008

Happy Father's Day!

We spent the beautiful, perfect day down at the lake to celebrate! Anna had a blast with her Grandma, cousins, and Dad out in the water and in the sand!







Also, happy 6th anniversary to us! We got to spend a romantic night together at Geneva-on-the-Lake! We stayed in Uncle Bob's "Little House" for the first time (since Mike and Tanya stayed there with their parents as kids), played mini golf and arcade games (I beat Mike playing Simpson's Pinball and he beat me playing everything else!), and we ended the night with ice cream from Eddy's Grill where Mike and Tanya had their first jobs. Grandma J watched Anna for the night, and they had lots of fun together too :)

Saturday, June 14, 2008

Cozy with Lambert


(Energy Anna is almost never found resting on her own in such a relaxed state...as soon as she saw me, she was up-an-at-em in a snap, but I got this one quick shot)

Elizabeth's Graduation Party!

Friday, June 13, 2008

Time out ! It was a powdered sugar incident.


...but doesn't she look like a cute little bakery angel?

Monday, June 09, 2008

Play group playing telephone with bananas

Funny Anna quote after she left the table: "I don't want to go to the monkey party anymore!"

Saturday, June 07, 2008

Anna built a "catamaran"!


We were so proud of our little carpenter!
We'll be back next month!...if not at the hospital!

Thursday, June 05, 2008

Elizabeth is officially a high schooler!

Well, I suppose the "officially" is that she is not an 8th grader anymore... Anyway, we are all happy for her, and she is happy too! Unlike lots of girls in her class, she was tear-free! Congratulations Elizabeth! We love you, Beautiful!

(...and I'm looking every bit of my 8 months pregnant!)

Ok, so it is 90 out and the first photo looks like she's lounging at the beach, then as you can see, Anna found her winter hats and mittens!
Isn't she just such a doll-baby!?

Wednesday, June 04, 2008

Mommy and Anna - Zoo Buddies

We got to touch sting rays! They feel smooth, like dolphins on the bottom. I touched the top before they announced to "be sure to only touch the bottom" - thank goodness nothing bad happened! Anna tried, but I don't think there was any actual contact - maybe next time!

She made a friend...

We particularly like the name of these guys (well Anna decided that one we saw was a girl and the other was a boy). They're called clipspringers. Very cute, they're petite, though you can't tell from this photo how small they are.