Griffin's Thanksgiving feast

Griffin's class had their annual Thanksgiving feast in the classroom last Tuesday. The video is too cute...Enjoy!

Sweet photos of Julia's first days!

My friend and photography expert, Andrea Berry, took the most wonderful photos of Julia in her first days home from the hospital. Here is the link to her website and Julia's photos!

http://andreaberryphotography.zenfolio.com/p795454395

Password: Julia

Enjoy!!

PS... Grandparents, you can order directly from her website!!

Funny faces!!

Here are some of Julia's funny faces!! I guess she takes after her mommy as a facemaker! The jury is still out on who she looks like...She has some "Griffin features" and looks like him when she is asleep but not so much when she is awake?

Julia's 1st bath

It took 2 weeks for Julia's umbilical cord stump to finally fall off so we could give her a bath. She didn't mind it too much, especiall when she saw herself in the mirror!!

The Big Brother

Griffin was soooooo excited to finally meet Baby Julia. When he arrived at the hospital, she was getting some TLC in the nursery so that gave us a chance to spend some time with Griffin and tell him all about his baby sister. He got a special sticker and signed himself in at the front desk. He also had a Big Brother t-shirt and got some ice cream and cake to celebrate Julia's real "birth" day...it was a fun time even before the guest of honor arrived in the room.






Kenny and I were both anxious to see Griffin's reaction to his new sister and could not have been more pleased to see the delight in his face when he actually saw her and got to hold her.















He has been so great with her..talks to her all the time, holds her, gets diapers, burp cloths and all the baby necessities as long at he doesn't have to change a diaper!! He even prays for her to have a good night's sleep each night and we all hope that prayer is answered around here!!

Julia's finally here!!

After much anticipation and waiting, Julia Rose Koellner made her grand entrance into the world on Monday, November 10th at 1:29 pm!!

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Monday was my 2nd scheduled induction date so I called the hospital at 5am that morning to make sure they had a room for us. Thankfully they did (if not, I would have probably lost it!) so we arrived around 7am and they started the induction process.


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We had the most wonderful nurse with us the entire day and the Dr. who delivered was Andrea's neighbor, Ted Garcia. The neatest part of the entire process was that Kenny got to deliver Julia into the world. Dr. Garcia instructed him but he did all the work. It was definitely a life changing experience for us!

Just as we suspected, she was a big baby like her brother...9lbs. 6 oz. and 21 1/2 inches long.. but totally dainty and perfect in every way!!
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Baby update.....still waiting!!

OK.. as of today we are still waiting for Baby Julia's big arrival...I went to the dr. this afternoon because I thought my water might have broken overnight...no such luck! I am 2 cm dialated which is a good sign. Now we just have to wait for labor to kick in full force. SO...if you are reading this.. stay tuned and say a little prayer for Kenny and I that this will be over soon and we can welcome our sweet little baby girl into the world!!!