One for the Guiness Book?

Late Saturday evening, Dave, Lizzy and I were enjoying a movie with our new friends (who, coincidentally are expecting a baby girl in 2 weeks) when Lizzy pooped! Nothing out of the norm, she does that. I then sent Dave to do the dirty work. Just moments after he got her onto the changing table we heard a terrified yelp come from Dave! Freaked me right out! I thought something terrible must have happened...and I was right.

I went running into the bedroom where I saw it! I saw it all! Lizzy wasn't quite done going poo when Dave started changing her diaper, so she finished while on the table, but it didn't stay on the table. Our little girl must have had some built up pressure because she shot it about 4 feet!!! It landed on our bed! Can you believe it? That's got to be some sort of record!

So Fun!

Life is so fun! Dave and I are loving being new parents! Of course I am sure that it helps when you have the perfect daughter...(ask anyone! They will agree! Really!)

Life is going great in AZ. Dave is is doing wonderful in his class, though they are having very long days filled with lots of tests and training. His days start at 4am when he wakes up and go until 7 or even 8pm! My days are filled with feedings and diaper changes and naps if I am lucky. I know I should nap when Lizzy does, and I do, just not as often as I should. I am reading a good book right now called "the Baby Whisperer..." Those who are going to be parents or already are, I highly suggest reading it. It's quite helpful.

So, the point in me doing a post today was to show off some more pictures of our recent addition. Here they are!

It's a belly button now!!

Dave and I are very excited to announce that Lizzy no longer has her umbilical cord chunk stuck to her! It fell off on Saturday to reveal the cutest little belly button ever! Also, we wanted to do a quick shout out to those who came out to help us in our first few days with her. In order of appearance....Carol, Doris, and Heather! Thanks for all your help! We really appreciate it. It can be kinda nerve racking having a new born to care for for the first time ever all by yourself. I really enjoyed the company and I know Dave felt better knowing that I would have help. Thanks again for all you do.

Grandma Carol

Grandma Doris

(Sorry Heather, I didn't take any pictures of you with my camera! I thought I did. But only yours! Will you email those to me please?)

Here's one more picture just because she is so cute!

Lizzy came home on the 11th and was so good. We love having her here and she is so cute. I always have the camera ready to take pictures because everything she does is so cute. When she wakes up, I get her and give her to Felicia to feed and then i burp her and change her diaper and get her to go back to sleep. She just sits in my arms in the dark and quietly stares at me. Last night she got up at four and cried for a while though. She must have felt a little sick. We love her.

this is Dave. We had our baby today and i ran home to put these up. Elizabeth (Lizzy) Lindsey Hastings was born on January 9th 2007 at 7:19 AM and she was 7 lbs and 9 oz. and 19 inches long. Here are some pictures.

Here she comes!

Just a quick little F.Y.I. for you all. I had an OB appt. this last week and we found out that our sweet princess is breech! (I could tell since she sticks her head into my ribs on a daily basis) Oh yeah, we also found out that she is a big girl! Circa 8-8.5lbs...so, I am not allowed to have her normally. I will be going into the hospital early on tuesday morning to have her delivered via C-section. Not the way I would have chosen to do things, but definatly the safest for the baby and myself.

YEAH! We will finally have a baby to put in our crib, car seat, stroller and all our baby clothes that have been waiting for her arrival! We will keep you all posted to the best of our ability over the next week. I am going to have Dave post her first pictures on the blog ASAP so you can enjoy her as well.

Talk to you soon!

Strange experiments on Dave

So, funny story. Dave is my guniea pig! Ok, not so funny or so much a story, but the point is he bends to my every whim! Maybe he feels bad for me because I am still very much pregnant, or maybe he just likes to see me laugh (at him mostly) whatever the case may be he lets me get away with most anything I want to do to him! Over the 2 week mass Christmas exodus from post, he decided to grow a beard. I loved it! He looks very good in facial hair, for the most part. Near the end of the 2 weeks we both knew that his bearded days were numbered. He would need to shave it clean before returning to post. His beard then went through several transformations until finally there was nothing left. Please enjoy the slideshow we put together. Hope you all had a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! WOO HOO! Yeah for 2007!