Welcome baby Adria!

Adria Grace Miller joined our family on September 22nd, 2011 at 1:22 p.m. She weighed...ready for this...9 pounds 5 ounces and was 22 inches long. I had debated trying natural childbirth this time around but when we were 3 days passed her due date and digging into my precious maternity leave we decided to induce labor. I was not interested in trying natural childbirth while on Pitocin so I opted for the epidural. Everything went incredibly well. We checked in at 6:30 a.m. They started me on Pitocin about 7:15, they broke my water about 9:00, I got my epidural about 10:00 and she was born at 1:22. The funny thing is Zach took a very modest video of the delivery and we watched and realized I only pushed for 1 minute and 45 seconds. It was wonderful!

This is me the night before she was born:


Holding my band new baby girl:




Meeting big sister:




(This is so precious because Brenna wanted to bring her flashcard of the letter "A" to teach her baby sister that that's what her name starts with)

Day 2:


Proud daddy with his girls:

Pre-school

My little girl started pre-school this last week. I can't believe how big she is getting! She just loves her teacher Miss Melissa.

Fun family Labor Day weekend

Since I am way past the point of comfortable/safe travel Zach's awesome family came to us in Boise for Labor Day weekend. We had a blast! Brenna absolutely adores her cousin Brielle if you can't tell from the pictures.

The big girl bed

About 6 weeks ago we decided Brenna was ready to make the transition to the "Big Girl Bed". We re-decorated and made her room really fun and cute.





More details about her $100 room makeover here

She has transitioned very well and is loving her new found freedom. And Zach and I love to sneak in her room during the night and see what adventure she fell asleep to this time.

Brenna's 2 year pictures

My awesome sister-in-law Victoria took these wonderful pictures of Brenna for us. I just love them!

more material from my little comedian

We took Brenna camping for the first time about a month ago. We had been there maybe 10 minutes when Brenna says to me: "Mommy, I want to go home...it's dirty." That's my little Princess for you. She got over it pretty quick and we ended up having a lot of fun.





Brenna has made up make believe names for everyone in our family (completely on her own). Daddy is 'Princess Guy-man', mommy is 'Princess Lady' and she is 'Princess Waterhole'. Don't ask me where she comes up with this stuff.



She comes walking into the room with a ball the other day and says "Daddy, I'm going to teach you how to play sports."


I got to babysit my cousins little boy for a couple of days. I tried to keep them apart when they had to go potty (mostly because I didn't want Brenna to get any ideas about trying to pee standing up :) Well, we had an incident at McDonalds and there was no way I could avoid Brenna seeing Payton go potty. She just looked at him, then turned to me and said "He has a pinkie on his bum."



We were driving down the street the other day and Brenna says: "Do you love my daddy?" I replied: "I love your daddy so much" and she says..."Thanks mommy." That just melted my heart.

Stitches

My poor Brenna had a little tumble on some stairs at the playground this last week and had to get stitches in her head. :( I have made it through my 26 years without them and my poor daughter had to get them at 2! The worst part about it was they made me hold her down while they stitched her up. Thank heavens my mom was with us because I don't think I could have handled it by myself. I am also SO glad that it was the back of her head and not her face so no body will be able to see the scar!