Audrina meeting Augustino

Audrina has been waiting and waiting for her 'baby boy' to arrive. We did a lot of talking about the things that baby boy would and would not be able to do once he arrived. And that he'd only be eating mommy's milk and all he'd do is eat, sleep, poop, pee and cry.

Zach's parents watched Drina for us while we were in the hospital. The day after Auggie was born Shannon brought Audrina down to meet him. The introduction could not have gone any better. The two of them melted our hearts. She has been very gentle and loving. So far we have not seen any jealousy or major melt downs due to his entrance in our world.

Audrina received a gift with Augustino's arrival. Her very own camera 'Click' (thank you Diego)... She has LOVED taking picture after picture of Auggie.

So far our life as a family of 4 is as close to perfect as we could hope for!

And yes, my baby boy has a pink swing! :o)

He's Here!

He's here! Augustino Giovanni Abote was born June 7, 2010 at 8:03 pm. He weighed 8 lbs. 5 oz., was 20 1/2 inches long.

Proud Daddy

We thinks he looks a lot like Drina did when she was born. Full head of dark hair, round face, similar nose... except Auggie has dimples!

Proud Papa

Here are all the other details:
We checked into Good Samaritan for induction in the morning. They started all the drugs around 10:30 and things progressed slowly. At 5:30 they checked me and I was still at 3 cm so they broke my water. The doctor thought it would be 5-7 hours until I dilated fully. About an hour or so after this they turned me on my left side. Thanks to the drugs I was able to relax and rest a bit. At 7:30 I asked the nurse to come in and flip me to my other side. Almost immediately I started to feel some pressure, so when the nurse came back in I let her know. She checked me and the head was right there! She said he'd be out in about 10 minutes and quickly brought in the other nurses to get everything set up. She had me do a practice push and at that time started timing. The doctor came in and a few pushes later Augustino made his arrival. Total time from the 'practice push' to arrival was 7 minutes! I cannot complain about that!

Waiting Game

We are still waiting for the arrival of baby boy Abote. So I've decided to use some of my nesting energy to update Audrina pictures from the last... 6 months?!
So these are not in any particular order, just her everyday cuteness.

Crafting

Zoo

Audrina LOVES playing at the park. She has become very strong and coordinated getting up and down things. Now we are just working on self play at the park. She's going to have to get used to the idea that I cannot follow her around 100% of the time...

Playing with James and Katy

Playing dress up.

Good little gardener.

2!

2 already? We can hardley believe it!

Audrina has been very excited about her birthday. She named the baby doll to her new doll house at Mimi and Papas 'Baby Birthday', has been singing 'Happy Birthday to Drina' and asking for presents. I have to say this girl has got the hang of it!

Both Zach and I had to work on her birthday so she got to spend the day with T-Shell! They came down to work for lunch and then we had her favorite dinner (meatloaf and mac n' cheese) and a cookies and cream ice cream birthday cake.

Loving her new baby 'Tony' She calls all her ponies, Tony. We have several, 'Blue Tony', 'Pink Tony', 'Baby Tony' and now a new 'Baby Tony'. She can say Ps I'm not sure why she resists calling them Ponies. Oh well!

Yummy ice cream cake!

We didn't get a good picture, but she blew out her birthday candle like a pro!

Enjoying her birthday cake.

On Sunday we are having immediate family and her close little friends over for a birthday party. We are all excited to see everyone and celebrate with friends and family!

Part 2 - Santa!

Holland, Kris and Riley hosted a Santa party again this year. Last year Audrina came down with a cold, so this was her first real up close a person contact with Santa.

Hmmm, not sure about this guy!

Dancing in her Santa dress.

Oh wait, Santa gives presents? Not bad after all.

The best part of Drina's evening was meeting Baby Chloe. We've been talking about babies so much lately she was excited to actually meet one!

Riley and Drina showing off their great fashion sense!

Thank you to the Nelson's for a great party!

Christmas Festivities - Part one Cookies!

A week or so before Christmas I hosted a Christmas cookie party with Audrina's friends. We were not very productive, but all had a great time! And they surprisingly made just a small mess of the kitchen.

Audrina and James getting all the cookie cutters ready.

All the kiddos. James, Audrina, Riley and Alec.

The girls doing the decorating.

Figuring out that the frosting is much better to eat than decorate with!

Concentration.

We then had a second cookie baking day at Mimi and Papa's house. Much more productive!

Helping T-Schell measure.

Make the dough into balls.

The best part of baking? Licking the dough off the beaters!

And a close 2nd, decorating!

Abote girls.

Thanksgiving and the Zoo!

We had Thanksgiving this year at Zach's parents house. Shannon's side of the family was there, it was a little small this year, only 28 people.

All dressed up!

My funny girl, mouth always moving! I wonder who she takes after...

Little kids table. Audrina's art table at all other times.


After Thanksgiving Day we took our first trip to the Zoo! The weather was perfect, we beat the crowd and Audrina loved every minute of it!

We had the stroller, but all it carried was our coats and my purse. This was Audrina's desired mode of transportation.




My mom and John got us family passes to the Zoo for Christmas. We are all so excited to be able to go this next year!