The Daily Archaeopteryx

Wednesday, March 9, 2011

Thursday, March 3, 2011

We all survived each other for 1 month. Stella is chunking up, and we are starting to get back into a normal routine again (just with less sleep). Lately we've been missing our family and friends a lot. We love Fairview, but it's hard living so far away from everybody. We hope everyone is doing well and handling this crazy life we all live. Enjoy the pictures!

Monday, February 7, 2011

Blog Exclusive -- The Ears

I know a lot of people have been curious about Stella's funky ears. So here are some pictures. Nothing a little nip and tuck can't fix.

Friday, February 4, 2011

Stella Belcher - Born February 1st 2011

Yay! After nearly a 12 hour labor, a wonderful blessing from above known as an epidural, and just a few pushes, Stella made it safe and sound. Everyone loves to know the stats so here they are: 7 pounds, 3 ounces. 19 inches long. Dark hair, Born at 9:13 am. Delivered by a sub of a sub of my doctor.

Of course we think Stella is just perfect, but she came with some quarks. Her ears were formed kind of funky on the outside. She has some "skin tags" and extra lobe stuff. We call her right ear Shrek Ear (which you can see in the first picture), and the left one Cauliflower. The pediatrician wanted to be extra thorough to make sure this wasn't an indication of anything else, but she passed her hearing test and the ultra sound they did of her kidneys and bladder was completely normal. Whew! We'll have a pediatric plastic surgan look at her in a few weeks and have things fixed sometime down the road. She has been a great eater, pooper, sleeper and entertainer. We love her and we'll keep her!

Classic after delivery shot.

Proud parents -- wait what? We're parent's?!! Holy crap.

Grandpa Vern

Grandma Celia

Grandpa Duane and Grandma Vivian

Button Nose

We tried to bring her home in this bear suit, but she wasn't having it.

It totally drowns her.

Thursday, January 27, 2011

Killing Time

Austin is working hard to do the finishing touches on the baby room. We are SOOOO done with projects for a while! I'll post pictures when it's complete. I am what they call "nesting" I guess. My house is clean, things are organized, and I am hypersensitive to anything my body does cause I think I might be going into labor (hoping, rather). My due date is the 30th, but the doc seems to think I'll go over. And I probably will because he is going out of town on the 1st. Isn't that pretty standard? Enjoy these pics.

A Sunday drive to Crandall Canyon Mine.