First Smile on Camera

Right after I posted last time, we were able to catch Everett smiling for the camera!!!
I added the two best ones for you all to see.
He is doing well after battling some pretty bad allergies and seems to be my happy baby again!
Tuesday at the doctor he weighed in at 14 lbs 6 ozs and is 23 inches. No wonder he eats alot!!! Enjoy the pics. More later...

I am BACK...hopefully!

Hello Everyone.
I have finally downloaded several pics of Everett from birth to now (8 weeks today).
We have already had many "firsts", but of course my favorite is the smiling Everett started since he was about 4 or 5 weeks old. Of course, I have not been able to capture him doing this on camera, but will continue to try.
My least favorite is the ear infection that he got at 5 weeks old. Yuck. Poor little thing. And he has allergies. Also not one of my favorite things, but it may bother me more than him.
All in all Everett is a great baby. He does not cry much and will generally sleep at night except to wake up to eat. He is the most fussy when he is overtired and fights sleep like a toddler. But eventually he goes to sleep and all is happy again.
At his last doctors appt last week, Everett weighed 13 pounds, 3 ozs and was 21 inches long. STILL a bog boy!!!
Happy St. Patrick's Day everyone.

It's a BIG Boy!!!

Everett Eron Linn was born on Tuesday, January 20, 2009 at 7:46 AM. He weighed 9 pounds, 8 ozs and was 20 and a half inches long. What a BIG boy. So far so good! He LOVES to eat...Imagine that! I am truly exhausted but wanted to go ahead and post the pictures tonight. We are totally enamored with our precious baby. I am only posting a few pictures tonight but will do a better job when I am not as "new" at being a mommy.

Tomorrow is the Big Day!!!

Well, today's check up brought us quite a surprise! The Dr. told me I was still not dilated, and then started to ask us some pretty odd questios, so I knew somethig was going on. Apparently my body is not cooperating. It seems that no matter what route we take, I am a strong candidate for c-section. Even if we tried to do child birth naturally, the Dr. feels strongly that my delivery will end in c-section. At my prior visits he wanted to wait to see if anything would change in hopes that we could do a natural child birth, but at this point he does not see any way around it. Also, he RARELY will even suggest this option, so we feel confident that this is the right thing to do.
Pray for us! We arrrive at 5:30 in the morning, and wil have the surgery at 7:30 AM. So, Baby Linn will be here around 7:45. We cannot believe that this time tomorrow we will be parents!
We would like to have visitors starting Wednesday. One of us will send out a text message announcing Baby Linn's gender, weight, height and name!!! Stay tuned....

I am Going to be Pregnant Forever!

Well, we just had our weekly check-up and I have not dilated AT ALL. I am effaced but nothing on the dilation. So, next week I go back and hope that I have made some progress!
The sonogram tech said the weight looked to be around 9 pounds 7 ozs. The Dr. said he guessed 8 and a half!!! Wow! So I guess somewhere in the middle is the weight.
Eron took this picture of me last night. 38 weeks 1 day.....Can my skin stretch anymore? Yikes!!!

I still have not gained any weight at all in 5 weeks. Crazy that somehow the baby gains weight, yet the scale stays the same for me. Maybe that is why I am so tired??? I guess I am getting what is owed to me. My poor mom carried me for 42 weeks and then they had to force me out. I guess, our baby is just content in there. At least we know that the baby is healthy and seems to be happy, which is our ultimate hope. I will make sure to update next week after my appointment and of course sooner if anything happens.

Guess Baby L Stats

We thought it would be fun to have anyone who is interested play this game to guess Baby Linn's stats. I have already guessed, and NO, I don't know ANY of the answers. If I did, that would ruin the game!
Just click on this link to participate and then click on Enter a Guess! Thanks for playing
By the way, I did steal this idea from my friend, Wendy Q. Thank you, Wendy...

Quote of the Day

"I can't eat, I can't sleep, but I can do a great imitation of a beached whale. Seriously, are we almost done with this?"

I read this in one of my many pregnancy emails I get, and thought it was hilarious AND appropriate. This is so true of the very late stages of pregnancy.

I had yet another weekly check up yesterday, and all is well. The sonogram looked great as far as Baby Linn's health and physical activity.
I was SO hoping that I had dilated some, anything at all, but NO. I have effaced to 60%, so that is good that I have at least SOME progress. We are both getting very excited to meet this baby and are glad that the baby is healthy and all has been well with this pregnancy so far. I will update again after my appointment next Monday. Please keep us in your prayers that all continues to go smoothly.