B-Ball

Thought I'd share Mckenna's team picture (click to enlarge). She holds her own pretty well with all those boys.

Halle Jayne Mathie

I know this may be a bit late--o'well!)

Halle Jayne Mathie was born March 9th at 10:46 am. She was 7 lbs 10.5 oz. and was 19 3/4 inches long. We are doing very well with the transition. Here are some simple pictures to get started.

*I will post more pictures and the long story of labor and delivery (mostly for my records) when I have time.


Kayla is a so proud to be a BIG sister!

Halle- the day we came home from the hospital

Kenna loves to help and hold the baby. She's a great helper!

I am glad I have a picture of me and all my girls. Give me the benefit of the doubt and believe that I normally don't look this great! haha

Medical Necessity

Well, My doc said that he will not induce me before 42 weeks UNLESS it is medically necessary. So I have taken it upon myself to list the medical necessities for me to be induced:

Sleep deprivation/Fatigue--I think I average about 4-5 hours a night--over a period of time that's got to be medically alarming!

Chronic Heartburn-- I don't know if I have an esophagus anymore.

Shortness of Breath--

Excessive rapid weight gain- Who wants to continue to gain a pound a week PAST the due date?

Frequent bathroom visits--

When I list these, I sound like a commercial for a new medicine. Any of these would be medical reasons for alarm, but when you're pregnant you just get to live with them for 9 months (or more).

Forts!

The girls were very excited to show me their creation. Interesting--looks like fun to me!

Basket Ball

Mckenna started basketball this past week. It was pretty fun to watch all the little kids trying so hard. She's one of the youngest/shortest playing, but she was so excited to try and see friends from school. Every time I tried to get a picture, one of the coaches went in front of me and I didn't want to look like one of those mom's who stands in front of everyone to take a hundred pictures of the same thing. As the season goes on I'll get some pictures up of our little ball player.

Our Name!

SO... We finally have picked a name for our baby girl.

HALLE JANE MATHIE

(now if she could just get here!)

We are not sure of the spelling of Halle, so that may change. We don't want any confusion on pronunciation so we may change it to: Hallie or Hally or Hallee--I personally like the normal spelling of Halle, but we'll see on that point.

(Dad, I tried to get Jay as the middle name, but Jason wouldn't concede that it could be girls middle name. Jane was as close as I could get to Jay and I think it sounds pretty good!--Love you!)

Extra Large

Yesterday I was listening to the girls--this was their conversation:

Kenna: Well Kayla, you are the small, I'm the medium, mom is the large, and dad is the extra large.

Kayla: No Kenna, mom is the extra large!

She is appropriately correct! 10 days to the due date!