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Ben took the girls and Lana for a drive up by mt. ranier. They took their kites, and played in the lake. It really was good for them to get out of the house for a while.
Kara is still wanting to hold Evie 3 or 4 times a day.
Ben makes her seem so tiny. I can't believe that Kara was even smaller than this!
The girls keep sharing toys with her. I'm constantly finding dolls or toys in the bassinette and the pack n play. Kara loves to sit and watch her while I go to the bathroom, or whatever. She keeps saying how she is a great babysitter.
Evie's first bath at home, getting ready for a dr's appointment.
The dr. said everything was looking good with her. She is only down to 6lbs 11oz, so that's a pretty good weight so far. She hardly cried at the visit, she's such a good girl.
she loves sleeping in the boppy pillow. She snuggles right in and sleeps there for a few hours.
I think this is one of the pictures Kara took.
Lana bought these cow socks when she was here back in November. The looked pretty cute on her little feet. I especially like the tail on back.
Lana wanted to make me something sweet, so I picked her chocolate whipped cream cake. The girls were so excited to bake with Grams.
Ben ordered new hoodies for the girls from the online disney store.
Grams flew home yesterday afternoon. We sure loved having her here. After my mom leaves next week, I worry they will really feel the difference in attention. Ben will be back at work too, so we'll see how it goes, I guess.
These two really have been getting along better the past few days. Maybe because they have more people around to distract them from getting mad at each other. Kiersten didn't do too well with going potty while I was in the hospital, and the first day or two I was home. But I think I'm starting to get her back into the habit again, and excited to go in the potty.
Our baby is finally here. My dr. said she would induce me on my due date, but when I called into the hospital on monday morning, they were full, so I just went about my day as usual. The next induction date would be thursday, so I figured I'd have to wait til then, or til I went into labor otherwise. Late in the afternoon, I was taking a nap, and the hospital called and said if I could be there within an hour they would induce me. So we hurried off to go have the baby. After an hour of trying to get my IV in, (and 6 painful pokes) I was induced. After 7 hours of labor, I wasn't progressing, so the dr. decided to stop the pitocin and give my body a few hours break. But I kept contracting anyway, and woke up right before 2 AM with very painful contractions. The nurse came in and I told her about it. She said she would adjust my epidural, since my legs were totally numb, but I still felt the contractions. But as soon as she checked me, she said I was fully progressed, and we wouldn't have time, so I'd just have to push with the pain. As soon as the dr. got there, I delivered her very quickly.Evangeline Rebecca Miller. She came at 2:32 AM and she weighed 7lbs 6oz(which is exactly 12 ounces bigger than Kara, and 12 ounces smaller than Kiersten). She is just 19 1/2 inches long. My shortest baby so far. The biggest surprise was that she had hair. I even asked the Dr. if she was sure that was my baby! It's not super long, but way more than my other two baldies. Since her hair is dark, Ben wanted to name her middle name after me. We had been trying to decide a good middle name, so I thought that was a good idea. I didn't have much time to get ready to leave for the hospital, so I ended up giving birth with makeup on, which, as you can see, smeared all over my face. I totally cried my way through the last push. I said "I can't do it" and Ben, my Dr, and the nurses were saying, "she's half way out! you have to do it!" 
Ben loved her immediately, and wanted to hold her right away.
About a half hour after she was born.
you can kinda see her hair here. most of it is in the back though. When it gets wet, it curls up. She was looking a little yellow this morning, but the pediatrician wasn't worried about her numbers. He just said to keep an eye on it, and keep her near the sunny windows, etc.
she has scrawny little chicken legs!
in her going home outfit, which was too big, of course.
I love crying baby pictures. I think this was because she was mad about getting dressed.
Getting in the car seat to go home.
Kara and Evie. Please ignore the filthy face!
Kiersten and Evie. She is sure excited about this new baby! In the hospital, Evie started crying, and Kiersten started singing "twinkle twinkle little star". Kara joined in singing, and Evie calmed right down. And happily, the whole moment was caught on video!
They just want to be around her and cuddling with her constantly. Ben finally had to kick them out and shut the door so I could feed her safely. Kiersten is a jumper!
I think she fits in well.
Grams missed her flight monday night. (which turned out to be okay, since we were at the hospital). But Ben picked her up from the airport the next morning. She came straight to the hospital to meet the baby. My mom kept me company at the hospital while Ben took the girls to pick Lana up. But i din't get a good picture of her with the baby. I'll make sure to get a better one though.
The girls each brought her a gift, and they were just so excited at the hospital. They stayed for a few hours yesterday. Kiersten keeps saying, "she's so tuuuute!"
Kara is already trying to think of anything she can do to "help" with the baby. she is really such a sweet girl. And she is definitely loving all the attention from having 2 grandmas around!
I'm sure I'll have taken a million more pictures by the time I do another update. I brought my DSi to the hospital to pass the time, but I spent way more time taking pics of her with it, than I spent playing any games on it. I guess it must be love!
First, I just liked this picture of Kiersten. She asked if she could take her nap on my bed the other day. I set her on top of the pillows with her own blanket, and when I came in to check if she'd fallen asleep, I found that she had unmade one side of the bed and gotten in. She looked so cute.
Kara on her last day of school. She made a card for her teacher. That's the paper that she's holding.
She has grown 2 inches since she started school, and only gained 1 pound.
posing in front of her school. She has been saying the last few days that she was glad to be done with school. We tried to explain that she wont see her friends and teacher, so she needed to have lots of fun on her last day. She just insisted that she wasn't going to be sad or miss anyone. But when I picked her up from school, she started crying and didn't want to leave. She begged me to let her go to summer school, and insisted that all the other kids are going to summer school. I just explained that we are going to be having the new baby arrive soon, so we need to take a break from school until the fall. She seems to be okay with it now, although she has brought it up several times today that she no longer gets to go to school or ballet.
Kiersten got this bug sprinkler for her birthday in march. It was finally sunny enough that we let them try it out on saturday after we got home from a birthday party. Ben counted at least 7 pregnant women at the birthday party, so I was in good company, and also got to see some Seattle friends we haven't seen in quite a while.
This morning I woke up to find Kiersten getting into my makeup in the bathroom. I sent her down to play with Kara while I cleaned it all up. (you can see some still on her face). When I came down, I had every intention of lecturing her about getting into things, but I forgot when I saw the two of them cuddled together on the couch like this.
We finally got out the baby swing for her. She likes looking at all the different lights, and toys on it. I got these cute overalls at the store for just $3.
here she is doing her baby push ups. she is getting better and better all the time.
Kara joining Evie for tummy time.
more swinging.
The girls did a project with water colors the other day. Kiersten painted her face like this, and then was horrified when she saw herself in the mirror. she started crying and begging to have it cleaned off.
We also got out our farm play yard for the baby. It seemed like she was getting bored laying around all the time. She loves looking in the mirror the most. the girls always want to play with her, but I think she prefers when they leave her alone.
getting ready for a nap. she's pretty good about going down for naps when I want her to. she's a pretty good baby all around. She's definitely my easiest newborn. I don't know if that's because of her, or because of me.
The girls after their bath today. they sure miss their daddy, and I get to hear about how much they miss him all day.
funny faces. Kara loves making funny faces. Kiersten isn't very original. She usually just copies whatever Kara is doing. (which, honestly, is usually this same type of thing.)
