I remember saying to my crafty pals that my sorry neglected blog wouldn't become the Ella blog (we have snapfish for that) so here is the beginning of the transition back to crafty blog land (with sprinkles of Ella fun!)

Listography Wednesdays....

books we are reading:
Mouse Cookies & More-- a treasury-- Ella's favorite bedtime stories
Lego Star Wars- visual dictionary-- I got this for Ella we look at it every day

bargain find:
Suave professional line- Nexxus Humectant--I use this once/twice a week to offset the use of my "good" hairlines

must see online:
Thanks to AIDAN the BEST vintage wrapper collection
A cool new blog I found- Ali Edwards

Posted by amy at 4:14 PM PST

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Time does fly!!!

Posted by amy at 9:40 AM PST

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Merry Christmas

Love,
Ella

Posted by amy at 8:30 PM PST

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Ella at 5 weeks...baby smiles are the best!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by amy at 12:54 PM PST

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Mommy Bootcamp does have its privies...early embarassment opportunities for Ella!  like these photos.  This is the hat I knit a while back for our little amyville cupcake.  Definitely see my Strawberry Shortcake childhood influences

Posted by amy at 9:31 AM PST

Updated: Wednesday, 18 November 2009 9:33 AM PST

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Today is our first day at home alone, as Daddy went back to work today.  Its like Groundhog Day (with Bill Murray) and we get to try things out again every 3 hours or so :)  we are both getting the hang of this.  She is so amazing!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by amy at 12:37 PM PST

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She is HERE!

So lets’ catchup!

Since October 25 I hadn’t been feeling very good, and blamed it on late third trimester pregnancy.  By Halloween I felt more run down each day, with a super increase in my water intake.  I had talked to my OBGYN about this, and he was keeping an eye on the symptoms realizing I was I drinking 2.5 gallons of water of day and still super thirsty, I was brought in for Lab work Nov 5^th. 

On Nov 6^th morning, my OBGYN was frantically trying to track me down (as I was with two girlfriends for breakfast and didn’t recognize the cell number on my phone)  Before I had a chance to listen to the voicemail, Mark reached me a frantic telling me to get home and meet him there, the Dr. wants to deliver Ella today due to my Lab Results.  Though I looked “normal” and blamed my symptoms on being pregnant… my liver was shutting down, with kidney failure soon to follow, all based my body responding to the placenta and pregnancy.  The baby was in no danger, as I would be the one to “get sick first” as the Dr. put it.

We were in the hospital within an hour, with the Dr. seeing us shortly after.  After assessment, I was told at 1:15 I would be having a C-section at 3:30. I was able to just have a spinal block and be awake for Ella’s birth. Ella was born at  4:01 Friday, Nov 6^th.  We had no issues, and my health instantly improved within moments of her birth.  and I was up and running around within 10 hours of Ella’s birth. 

We were in the hospital until Tuesday afternoon, where my numbers have improved greatly each day, we were kept for monitoring.  By Tuesday 6pm, we where home!

I will have my next set of numbers on Friday, and I am doing great.  Ella is in perfect health and has already gained weight since her last weigh in Monday night (6 lbs, 15 oz as she is back up to 7 pounds today at our first pediatrician visit.

Thank you all for your well wishes.  We are on cloud nine and so happy with our perfect little girl.

Posted by amy at 6:29 PM PST

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Poor little blog, wish i had an automatic capture mode.  Hopefully over the next couple weeks I can upload pictures of all the things I have been "feathering the nest" with these days.

Lets start with BIBS!  I found a wonderful seller on Etsy- ColorMeCute...if there is a baby in or coming into your life- go buy her stuff!!!  Wonderful craftsmanship and attention to detail :)

I was able to work a custom order with her for matching bibs and burpclothes- with adorable "e"s on them!!!

All is well on the baby front... weekly appointments with a little dialation progress (1.5 cm on the 26th) and working on my listS of things to do!

Posted by amy at 10:08 AM PDT

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Paul Frank is my friend, and I am in love with Small Paul- and of course anything julius.  The fascination began in Las Vegas last month, when across the street from our hotel was a Paul Frank store.  I think that is the only placed I shopped (and all I got were a mini monkey charm, some booties and the white onsie)  and I crushed really hard on a Blue diaper bag, but couldn't see paying 80bucks!  But eBay saved the day...where I found a PINK one (New with Tags!)- for half the price!-- then i had to get the matching wipe case, and even more pink goodness for Ella's first outfit home from a store called my sweet muffin.   So this is just a small collection representation, compared to the items I have been picking up at Target...did you know Small Paul is at Target too? 

Posted by amy at 6:31 AM PDT

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