Life with a baby

Sorry we haven't had an update.
So changing to life with a baby really has been easy. almost seems too easy. Sawyer really is wonderful. She's mostly happy, hardly ever cries, eats great (i am breast feeding and was worried how it would go but it's super easy) and sleeps really well, sleeping anywhere between 4 to 7 hours at night which i guess is amazing for a baby this new. Sawyer really isn't too demanding. She is a little fussy every now and then but it's only when she's had gas or when she really wants her binky, which she LOVES. She is all about her binky! It's definitely nice because if she's upset at all you just give her the binky and she's perfectly fine, or pick her up and hold her, she loves to be held. She makes great faces and noises all the time. It's fun just watching and listening to her. She can be a squirmer and moves a lot but at the same time is very calm. I just look at her all the time thinking how beautiful and wonderful she is. It's so unreal that she's even here really. Sometimes i don't even remember going through labor or can even believe that it happened. When i first saw her i was in complete disbelief. Really labor wasn't too terribly bad in my mind, the stitches are what are awful! I hate them! but I'll deal with them because I now have a great daughter. that's another thing saying i have a daughter, actually saying it, is so weird too me. It's hard to think of myself as a parent. It's true but it's just so hard to grasp that fact! But things have been great besides money but thats something i'm not wanting to talk about here or stress about. love you all

Sawyer

So Sawyer Mae Lynn Roberts finally is here August 2nd 9:32pm. She was 6lbs 8oz and 19 1/4 inches at 5 days overdue! lol She has been really great and loved being with her daddy. He kept just starring at him and when she got a little fussy he would just give her a couple kisses and she would be find. We enjoyed the few days we had together before Micah had to leave for training. He left the 6th for 12 days of medic training in Wisconsin. We were all sad to be separated so soon. luckily Sawyer is a wonderful baby and isn't too much work. she sleeps well and eats well. she gives me time to rest and relax and doesn't cry very much. she's easy to please for the time being which i know is God helping us. it would be hard to deal with if she were to fussy and micah was gone. so i know i'm blessed. most questions i've had have either been easy fixes or answered themselves. So sawyer and i have not done much besides relax at home. We did travel to lincoln to see micah off though and see my brother and sister-in-law. my mom drove though she had a apppointment because she is moving there sometime this month. well here are a few picture of our first week! o and we had sawyer's first week appointment today. She is back to 6lbs 5oz she left the hospital at 6lbs 3oz and she has stretched out an inch to 20 1/4. the doctor (Tim Davy) said she's close to perfect. Her feeding schedule is really good and she's sleeping really well. now all we need to for our family to be together for awhile. I can't wait to pick up micah next tuesday.

Appointment

today i had an appointment. all pretty much the same thing except i am now 1 CM DIALATED! (a generous 1 as the doctor put it) so i'm hoping that means something will start to happen soon. we really want to meet her. I have another appt set up for next monday if nothing happens by then than we will be scheduling an appt for introductions in otherwords inducing. i'm hoping that she comes before next monday we'll see how everything happens :S well just wanted to share the good news... more to come!

Walking

So i've been getting impatient for sawyer to come... i know i have 3 more days before the due date but can't she just come now geez... Micah is back so me wanting her to wait is all over.

well in hopes of coaxing her to come early and also because casey and i like them, i've been taking a walk about every other day. i was just going around the surrounding neighborhoods but i have been reintroduced to a nice trail just on the outshirts of town called the cowboy trail. casey has lots of fun because i let him off the leash. i like it because there usually isn't a lot of people and with all the trees and the river next to the path it's just really peaceful and beautiful. a nice place to think in take in God's beauty!

I tried to get the river to the side but the sun was at a weird point and it glared and i couldn't really see what i was shooting :)

the path winds through a bunch of trees i just think it's lovely!

you can kind of see casey having fun to the side(he's the black spot just off the sidewalk). he runs and smells everything but he never goes too far... if he does he gets yelled at and told to come back!

I'm very excited to take sawyer on walks here!

Drill week

So just over a week till the big date and since micah is in hastings for drill till the 24th i've been trying to make sure i have everything in order. i've cleaned the apartment some and finished putting sawyer's room together. i have the hospital bag packed and i've practiced putting the car seat in the car. it's getting very exciting i just hope she doesn't decide to come early so micah won't be gone, but he was able to drive his own car instead of going on the convoy with the rest of his unit so he'll be able to speed home to us if need be. we'll see what happens and what i can accomplish this week and whether or not i'll be up for working because i'm scheduled to work through friday. i would like to to have a little extra money and though i've been feeling really good for the most part i keep getting this weird pressure in my chest that makes me kind of dizzy and it's hard to breathe. i didn't go in to work on friday because of it.
it's a scary yet wonderfully exciting feeling of thinking about little sawyer and what she'll look like and how she'll act. i finished the bumper pad today (i forgot to sew in the middle ties :S) and i was just staring at the put together crib. i'm a little afraid of being able to provide for all her needs and being a good mom but meeting her is over-shadowing it.