I'm Finally Home!

I arrived yesterday afternoon and spent the day today resupplying and straightening and cleaning. Then I crashed! Steve had to fix dinner cuz I just didn't have any energy left and after pigging out on yummy tacos I laid down on the couch and crashed! After napping for over an hour I decided to try to scrap and with the help of a Lucy Chesna sketch from MSW and a Scrapdango challenge I came up with this cute LO about Noah pretending to be a monster at the pool on Labor Day. :) He was a great poser for me since I needed pics to go with this awesome monster paper from my Reminisce prize package! Made for a fun time and it felt good to scrap again. I missed my home, my husband, my doggie and my scrappy stuff. :)

Meet Garrett Michael Bailey!

IT'S A BOY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

My daughter gave birth tonight at 8 PM to a 6 lb 9 oz 19" long baby boy! His name is Garrett Michael Bailey and we're quite glad he's made his appearance!!! Mom and baby are doing fine. In fact, Garrett was exercising those very strong lungs quite loudly! Here's his first picture...

Thanks to everyone for all your prayers and support these past few months! God bless you all!

Finally Home!

I finally came home yesterday. But still no baby. :( My parents and my youngest brother, Tony, were coming down for a visit and so I rode down with them. If my daughter has the baby before they leave, I'll ride back with them and then fly home a few days later. If not, then we'll have to see how things go...
Meanwhile, we're enjoying ourselves! Mom and Dad haven't been down since 2003 and Tony hasn't had a vacation in many years. Can you believe Mom & Dad are 81 and 88 years old??? I'm SO blessed to still have them around!

So today we went to the beach and had an awesome lunch at Oceans 234. The weather was perfect but the waves were very rough! Not too many people even AT the beach and only about 5 brave souls IN the water!




Here's Dad in his new hat stylin at the patio table at lunchtime...

Tomorrow the plan is to go to one of my favorite places - Butterfly World. Better charge up the camera batteries!!! :) And later we'll go visit Mom's sister and maybe even Elias and Trish. One evening we'll go to the boat launch on Palmetto Park where we'll hopefully see the manatees! And maybe, just maybe I'll be posting with baby pictures soon! It's just a matter of time after all... :)

First Day of 1st Grade!!!

How in the world did Noah get old enough to enter 1st grade???!!! Where oh where did the time go?! They grow up SO fast! And so this morning my grandbaby left for his first day of 1st grade. But the most beautiful thing is that God allowed me to be here for this very important day. He was so cute and so nervous! "How can I do math for a whole hour a day when I don't know how to do math?" was his constant question during the weekend. And he was quite worried that he wouldn't be able to eat lunch either. I mean it's a big change to go from half days of kindergarten in the afternoon to having to get up early in the morning and not return till late in the afternoon! It will be interesting to hear how his day went when he gets home. :) Meanwhile, he was gracious enough to pose for a couple of pictures and even asked for a family picture with his mom and Brett. Awwww how sweet! My baby's growing up!

Labor Day Fun

It's Labor Day here and still no baby. :( But we did have a lot of fun at the pool today. Here's a few pics I took...

A Few Pictures...

I'm trying to use Brett's Macbook while I'm here in Virginia Beach and I'm having a hard time with posting pictures and things. But hopefully this will work! Thought I'd share a few pictures from the past couple of weeks...
First is a pic of Michele and Brett a few days ago setting up the crib. See the baby bump?

Here's Brett and Noah enjoying some chicken wings. Don'tcha love the hairdos?! hehe!!

I love this pic of Michele and Noah clowning around. :)

These are pictures from today. My brother, his fiancee and her twin teenagers came to visit us for the day today. We took a walk on Virginia Beach's boardwalk and Noah wanted to look through the viewfinder. He had to really stretch to see but he loved it!

The whole gang (I'm taking the picture)

And finally Michele and I. She looks so tired! Hopefully this baby will come soon.....

Mars, the Moon, Pregnancy and Hurricanes

Last week Mars was closer to the moon than it had been in 60,000 years. And it was a full moon too! And my daughter who's pregnant with her second child went into early labor. She spent the whole weekend in the hospital last weekend and finally came home Monday morning. I flew up from Florida on Saturday thinking that I'd arrive to a baby already here or shortly to arrive. The doctors were able to hold things off and so far, no baby yet. However, as I'm typing this post I'm watching the local news here in Virginia and they're telling us how our area will be affected by Hurricane Earl which is due to hit in a couple of hours. Having lived through a direct hit by a Category 2 hurricane just a couple of miles from the shoreline, I'm not too worried about this one.
EXCEPT... What's that old wive's tale about hurricanes and babies????? Yep. Seems to be affecting my daughter today for sure! She's been having contractions off and on all week. But this afternoon they got strong enough for her to stop what she's doing and breathe through them. Will this baby make its appearance tonight??? Only God knows! The due date isn't till October 11 according to the drs. But according to Michele and Brett, the drs are 2 1/2 weeks later than they should be. So if Michele and Brett are right, we're right inside that "safe" delivery period. And according to the sonogram before she went into the hospital, the baby should be around 6 to 6 1/2 pounds by now. My daughter is only 5'2" and has figured if this baby makes it to the dr's delivery date, it will be around 9 pounds!!!! Poor Michele!
And so the waiting continues. Meanwhile, I'm enjoying the time with Noah and Michele and Brett and their 3 cats. This weekend my brother and his fiance and her twin teens will be here for lots of fun and great food. Next weekend my parents and my other brother arrive for another fun time. And when they leave I'll probably go with them for the long drive back to Florida. They're coming for a couple of weeks of sun and fun. And while I'm up here having all this fun, poor Steve and Bax are home alone.
Hopefully October will turn out to be a very quiet month because this summer has been one BUSY, CRAZY one for all of us!!! And before we know it, Thanksgiving and Christmas will be upon us! And by then we'll have a baby that's at least a couple months old to pass around between all the family members. Oh the photo ops I'll have! :)