Our Growing Baby Girl

Words cannot express the joy that Chappell brings to my life. I never could have imagined the feeling that having a child of your own brings and it truly is the most rewarding and incredible experience I have ever felt. She is such a blessing to me and to watch her grow and evolve each day is beyond words. I am such a proud mommy and Chappell makes my life so content. It has been a while since I have updated her blog. Over the past 4 months she has grown up so fast and changed so much. She has such a cute personality and is so sweet. Her smile can make anyone just MELT. And when she giggles uncontrollably I think that is the best sound I've ever heard.

She has had many breakthroughs recently. She started to crawl a lot around 7 months. Now at 8 months says "DaDa" and "BaBa" all the time, and has said "Hey" and "Hello". She also says "Mom" and "MaMaMa" when she is upset. Chappell got her first tooth recently and it is the cutest thing I've ever seen. Chappell now claps for herself when she does something good and she loves to play with her toys and stuffed animals :) She is truly mommy's angel :) XOXO!

Miss Photogenic

Snow Day 09

Chappell had her very first snow day this week! She wore her lil snowman footie pjs so she was extra warm :) We took some pics of her the morning of ... gotta love SC snow. We get a drop and we are ecstatic! what would we do up north???

Our Growing Chappell Apple

Our little Chappell Apple is growing up so much every day! She is 16 weeks old today. It is truly amazing how big she has gotten and how aware she is now of her surroundings. She no longer likes to be held like a baby. She sits in her Bumbo chair now. She prefers facing out so that she can see everything going on and she is definitely fascinated by tv (she takes after her momma);) She sleeps through the night and is such a happy baby! Every morning mommy and daddy go to tell her good morning and she greets us with a HUGE smile...it will just make your heart melt and definitley makes my day or week for that matter! Being her mommy is the most wonderful blessing I could ever receive. I thank God every day for that...it is the best feeling in the world. I am perfectly content. Here are some recent pics of our little angel...enjoy!

Our Bundle of Joy!

Those are some of her Christmas Pictures that we took over the holidays! Here are some other precious pics of sweet Chap!!!








Well it has taken me a while to post a blog but I finally did it! :) Motherhood is so amazing and Brian and I are loving being parents so much. Chappell is such a blessing and I just feel so lucky to have her in our lives. She is now 2 months old and just had her 2 month check-up and had to get her shots. I don't know who cried more, Chappell or mommy????? LOL It was hard but I made it through. Chap weighs 10 lbs 11 oz now and she is 23 inches long. She is getting so big! She also just started sleeping in her crib and she loves it! She loves the mobile and the music and she loves her swing...(that was the best thing ever invented I think). She stays in that thing for hours and looks up at the mirror and takes a nap...she is so content. She has also hit some major milestones already. She has turned over on her belly from her back, smiled, laughed out loud, and holds her head up on her own. Mommy and Daddy are so proud of her!

The holiday season has been so exciting with it being her first Christmas! We just did pictures and decorated the tree! This will definitely be a special Christmas for us. Just having her here is the best gift of all. I hope everyone has a blessed holiday season...more to come soon!

Happy Birthday Chappell!!!

Our baby girl has arrived!!!! There are no words to describe how incredible this feels to be parents! Chappell is the most beautiful baby girl I've ever seen and I can't take my eyes off of her! Today is our 3rd day in the hospital and things are going great...mommy and daddy have MAJOR permagrin! Chappell just stares up at us with the sweetest eyes and expressions and she just makes our hearts melt! So her arrival has an interesting story to go along with it...here it goes.

I was orginally scheduled for a planned C-section because Chappell was breech for Friday, Oct 3, 2008 at 8:00 AM. We spent the day before doing final preparations for her arrival and were getting pretty anxious. Needless to say, mommy had a hard time falling asleep that night. At about 1:45 AM on Friday, I woke up for my normal trips to the bathroom and felt like I was having contractions. I just thought it was braxton hicks contractions and didn't think much of it...but about 15 minutes later my water broke!!! It was the craziest timing...what are the odds??? we're about to wake up for a scheduled C-section and mommy goes into labor!!! We called the doctor and were told to go to the hospital. I was in labor for about 4 hours and then had the C-section as scheduled. It worked out wonderfully and the birth of our baby girl was the most incredible experience of our lives. I couldn't see her at first but I asked Brian what she looked like and he said that she was PERFECT and when they brought her around for me to see her I saw the most beautiful little girl I've ever seen in my life! She really is perfect and I can't stop staring at her.
Mommy and Daddy are such ecstatic parents and just feel so blessed to have her in our lives. No words can express how much we love her...It is indescrible.

We get to go home tomorrow from the hospital. We are so ready to be able to introduce Chappell to her new home and get accustomed to the new surroundings with Mommy, Daddy and Daisy Mae. We sent one of Chap's hats home with Gibba and Manny from the hospital to let Daisy Mae smell to get used to her scent. She is going to be a great big sister and protect her. :) Stay tuned for more updates...until then enjoy some pics of our new addition!!

Big Ball of Emotions

On Friday of last week Brian and I went in for our weekly last month visit. Our doctor had ordered an Ultrasound to check the positioning of Chappell and her fetal weight. We were hoping that she was going to be head down and ready to go but what we thought was her hiney was her head. She is in the breech position...basically butt first. So we had to schedule a C-Section. At first I was upset because I wanted to have her naturally but I am thinking this may be a blessing in disguise. At least now we know when she is coming and I am having a chance to mentally prepare instead of it just happening out of the blue. Although I am scared of the actual c-section procedure, I am sooo excited for her to get here and to know I will be holding our little girl in 4 days!!! I told Brian I have felt every emotion in the book these last few days since I found out when she is coming. I'm excited, nervous, scared, anxious, ... you name it I am feeling it. But most of all I am just ready. Please keep us in your thoughts and prayers this week! On Friday October 3rd, Chappell will be coming into the world!!!