In the Hospital

We were absolutely amazed once we had Abby in our arms, it was love at first sight! She is such a wonderful baby, with a really sweet personality.

We could look at her and hold her all day. She is a daddy's girl for sure, he can sooth her in a second.

The Dr. says she is perfect, we think so too. :)

Heading Home

Here we are at the hospital getting Abby ready for her first car ride. Dressing her up was so much fun, until we realized that we had to put her in the car seat and drive her home.

She did not make a sound when we put her in the car seat, just snuggled in for the ride.

This nice lady wheeled Abby and I down to the car while daddy pulled up to get his girls.

I sat in the back to "watch" Abby since I thought she would be nervous this being her first ride and all, she never woke up, I was the nervous one.

Daddy was gripping the wheel at 10 and 2 to make sure that we made it home safe with our bundle of joy, good thing I was not allowed to drive, this was a lot of pressure, daddy did GREAT!

We made it home in one piece and Abby never knew we left the hospital. :)

Abby Loves Her Grandma Straw

Looking lovingly into Grandma's eyes at the hospital...

Abby was very soothed with Grandma's whispers in her ear...

Grandma and Grandpa (Schaad) did a great job cleaning up the house prior to our arrival back home. This was Grandma's reward...

Last chance to cuddle before Grandma has to go home...

After Grandma left we dressed her up in one of our favorite outfits. It just so happens that this one is from Grandma too...

Grandma said it was an honor to be here. It was an honor and pleasure for us as well. She helped SO much...cooking, cleaning, shopping, dog watching, etc. She filled in for me when I was sick and could not be at the hospital and did so many other things. We could not have done this without you and it was so much more meaningful with you here. We had planned for her time here to be a little longer, but Abby was a little late in her arrival. We look forward to Grandma and Grandpa Straw coming back SOON for a visit.

Love you Grandma,

Adam, Angela, and Abby (AA&a)

Abigail's First Moments

The before pictures :)

These two people don't know what they are getting themselves into...

Dr. Skinner with our new arrival

Are you looking at me?

Holding daddy's finger

Stretched out after getting cleaned up

First moments with Mom

We love these feet. She had just been foot printed, hence the black marks

First moments with Dad

First bath

Angela and Abby with our doula Jean

With G'ma

With G'pa

Abigail Rae Straw

Born 3/28/09 at 2:11AM. 8 lbs. 9 oz. 21 1/2 inches long. Mom and baby are doing great! Stay tuned for pictures...

Induction Woes

Well here is the scoop. I have been on pitocin for almost 24 hours and there is not much going on. The doctors are going to stop my pitocin tonight and give my uterus a rest and then start the pitocin again tomorrow morning. Please pray that we have better results tomorrow with the pitocin, we are so anxious for Abigail to arrive.

On a side note please pray for Adam he has a flu bug of sorts and is going to be resting at home tonight. Daddy needs to be better when his baby girl comes out to meet the world.

Here's the scoop!

No baby, yet, but we have an induction scheduled. We will be going to the hospital tomorrow at 5pm, they will start me on some pre-induction medication to prepare me for the pitocin on Thursday morning. If all the drugs work we should have ourselves a beautiful baby girl sometime on Thursday. Please pray for the medication to work well and quickly. We will post pictures of Abigail as soon as she arrives.