4 weeks old today!!!

Sophia with Grandma Bren and Aunt Nicole....

Little princess with Gamma and Aunt Mary!

Little angel with Grandpa and Pops! :)

Sophia LOVES to eat.... she comes by that honestly - her mom and dad love to eat too!

I can't believe Sophia is a month old! Here's some pictures ..... I have more on my laptop but my hubby took it with him to the frigid north....I will try to do a better job of posting pictures!

Daddy has been gone for a week and comes home today!!!! We will post more pictures later!

Life with Sophia....

So we are just living life with a baby.... our lives as parents has been interesting :) We are learning something new everyday from this little person. We are mainly learning how to take care of her! What she wants and needs.... it not an easy task and every day there is something new to learn :)

Well, she is still eating VERY well and sleeping pretty good. She usually gives us 4 hours in between feedings and diaper changes.... that has been pretty consistent.

Sophia informed me last night that she doesn't hate baths, she hates being cold.... so if I could warm her up with a quickness after her bath she would greatly appreciate it! ha ha!!

Here's a picture I took yesterday of Daddy with Sophia. :-) We were getting ready to go to the grocery store and run a few errands.

Here's a picture of Booger-Head :) He is such a good dog!

Sophia's 2nd Doctor visit.....

We took Sophia back to the doctor today for a routine check-up! She is right on schedule! She weighs 9 pounds 12 ounces!! She is 22 inches long.... she has grown an entire inch in 2 weeks! HOLY COW! ;-) She is doing just great!

She was such a good baby the entire time and she let the nurse weigh her and measure her. Then she let the doctor listen to her lungs and her heart and she didn't give him any grief! By the way, lungs and heart are doing just fine! They all sound great!

We are truly truly blessed to have such a healthy little girl! Mommy and Daddy are very thankful for our little Christmas miracle!!!

More Christmas pictures of our sweetheart!!

And we have more pictures of our baby!

Grandma King and I were playing dress up with Sophia and her new Christmas outfit ;-)


Could she be any cuter???



I just had her in this outfit and she crapped her diaper! LOL! Then I changed her and she crapped again!

She HATES baths!!!!

She loves to be snuggled and cuddled!!!

More pictures of Sophia ;-)

This picture was taken this morning ;-) She is asleep with her arms up like that!



Her Great Uncle Pat came and visited with her last night, he was in town for work.

For all you Sophia lovers! Here are some recent pictures of her ;-) By the way, that outfit is a little big but it should be; it's a 3 month size!!!!!

Sophia has a very healthy appetite and she has been consuming roughly 20 ounces of breast milk a day!!! Not bad for a 1 week and 1 day old baby! Also, I guess because she is such a big girl; she has been sleeping through the night. For the past two nights she went to bed around 10 or 11 and didn't wake up until 6:30 the next morning... I HOPE she keeps that up and it's not some freak thing that will stop!

She has to go back to the doctor on Monday and we will see how she has progressed since she's been born ;-)

Sophia Kendall Dempsey rules our world !!

Here are some new pictures of our baby!

KJ is checking on his little sister... HE LOVES HER!

Sophia is sporting her new little hat that we got in the hospital. One of the patient's make those hats for all the newborn babies. I think it's just too cute!!

Aunt Natalie would be so proud! :) This is what Sophia wore to her first doctor appointment!

FINALLY!!!!!!!!!! 13 DAYS LATE BUT FINALLY HERE!!!!!

Here's Gamma holding Sophia :)

Grandma King didn't get her picture made with Sophia but she wasn't far from the action;-)

Sophia Kendall Dempsey has finally made her appearance into this world!!!! SHE IS PERFECT!!!!!

So here is how it all went down.....

Mike took me to the hospital Monday morning, December 1st to check me in for an induction. So once all the paperwork was filled out and I was in my gown - they started me on cervadill (spelling). This is suppose to thin your cervix. Well we did this all day on Monday and by the end of the day my cervix was thinned and I was dilated to 1 centimeter ( I went into the hospital without anything happening in the cervix area). Soooo, Monday night JoAnn (midwife) and Lori (nurse) tried to insert a cervix catheter into my cervix to help open it up to 4 centimeters. Well, this did not work, my cervix was still closed up to much and the catheter would not fit. This was good news and bads... the good news was I was able to eat dinner ;-) I hadn't had anything to eat since 10:00 Sunday night and if the catheter had worked then I was not going to have dinner.

The bad news was, I was only dilated 1 centimeter and the plan was to try the induction on Monday & Tuesday but if it did not work then I was going to be scheduled for a C-section on Wednesday....

Ok - Tuesday morning, December 2nd!!! I woke up to Lori adding pitocin to my IV. This stuff worked like a champ! It had me on my knees begging for an epidural by 3:00 pm!!! No kidding!! I was ready to start pushing by about 3:30 pm! So we ( me, Mike, Lori and Dr. D) started pushing and pushed for about an hour. Then we took an hour and a half break then we pushed for about 2o minutes and BOOM at 5:46 PM, Our little girl was born weighing in at 9 pounds 1 ounce and 21 inches long!!!! Just as gorgeous as ever!!!!

So - that is pretty much how it went down - minus some pretty bloody details! ha ha! We are all home now and looking forward to what life has in store for us!

Here's our first day at home! Daddy is already spoiling Sophia ;-) She is definitely a daddy's girl!

If anyone is wondering how KJ is doing with Sophia... just check out the picture! He has been glued to my hip since I walked in the door and he does not like for Sophia to cry :) He is an awesome big brother and all he wants to do is give her kisses!!!