Introducing...

Allison Montague was born Tuesday, March 10 at 10:27am at Banner Gateway hospital. She was 8 pounds 3 ounces and only one day overdue.


She loves to sleep a lot, although she still has her days and nights mixed up.


Her brother and sister are so excited to finally have her here! They can't get enough of her.


Mckenzie loves to beg to hold her little sister..."Please!"


I kept expecting Allison to come a little early, since Mckenzie was 10 days early, and I wasn't really taking it easy. We were even able to plant a garden last Saturday, partly to try to get me to go into labor. Monday evening, I was having contractions, about 8 min. apart so we went to the hospital. Almost as soon as we got in the car, my contractions slowed down and they ended up sending us home after about 2 hours at the hospital. I was able to get about 5 hours sleep that night until I woke up around 2 or 3am with contractions...strong ones. I waited about an hour or so to tell Dave, then we even waited after that...we didn't want to get sent home again. Finally, they were so strong I couldn't take it anymore so we went to the hospital. We got there about 7:30am and I was dilated to a 5 so they took me up and got me ready for an epidural. By the time I finally got it I was about a 7 and they told me that I just made it in time to get one...thank goodness! Those contractions were killing me! We had to wait a little bit for the doctor, who was in surgery, and then Allison was born at 10:27, almost 3 hours after we got to the hospital.
Anyways, I only spent one night in the hospital...I was very ready to come home. Dave has had to work some but has been a great help around the house and with the kids! Also, our parents have both watched the kids and done dinners for us...thank you so much! Today I've been on my own with all three, but so far we've survived. The house is a mess, but we're doing fine. Thank you to everyone who has helped with dinners too...it's wonderful to be able to not have to worry about feeding everyone when I'm trying to constantly feed the baby and keep my energy up.
We're all doing well and trying to slowly adjust and get back to normal. We love having our sweet little girl here!

Projects

No, the baby's not here yet. I thought I'd show a couple of projects I've done recently.
First is this baby blanket I just finished. I wanted to try this style.



This is the project my sister and I did over President's Day. She was doing one for her daughter, and I had to get inspiration for Will's. He likes his cars. Thanks for the ideas Melinda!


And of course I had to get one of my cute kids. We were bored one night while Dave was gone. Will grabbed Mckenzie and she thought it was fun...they love the camera.