IT'S A BEAUTIFUL LIFE: SHE'S HERE!!!

Monday, April 7, 2008

SHE'S HERE!!!

OUR SWEET BABY IS HERE!

Abigail Jane
Born April 2, 2008 at about 1 pm.
9 lb 7 oz
21 in
So so so cute and precious!

Can you believe how BIG she was? This was taken the night before Abbie was born- does this look like a woman about to have a 9 lb baby?!!

We made it till April 2, just like we wanted! More pics and thoughts to come. . .

13 comments:

Christy said...: She is so sweet! I can't wait to meet her.; April 7, 2008 at 7:26 PM
Jesse and Emily said...: Precious!! Hey Amber, this is Jesse's wife Emily...Congrats! You look great by the way! :); April 7, 2008 at 8:09 PM
Emily said...: No, no, no - You absolutely DO NOT look like you've got a nine and a half pound baby in there. You are amazing! And she is adorable. Contrats to the whole family.; April 7, 2008 at 9:39 PM
Krystal said...: She's so cute in those pictures! With those chubby cheeks she doesn't look like a little newborn alien at all! Can you email me the picture of me holding her when you get a chance? I'd love to post it on my blog. Love ya.; April 8, 2008 at 2:20 PM
Brandi said...: Amber! Her face is so adorable!! I cannot believe how much she weighed. Seriously, wow! I can't wait to meet her. She is just too cute.; April 8, 2008 at 3:15 PM
dishes and laundry said...: Yay for Abigail! She's beautiful. How's Dallin doin'?; April 8, 2008 at 3:26 PM
Russell and Aya said...: Congratulations! Abbie is so adorable! We can't wait to meet her at the Gottfredson family reunion.; April 8, 2008 at 6:57 PM
Jan said...: Amber! She is ADORABLE! I am so amazed that she was nine pounds.. you look like you were ready to have a six or seven pounder.. You looked great! Let me know if there is anything I can do for you.; April 8, 2008 at 9:28 PM
Amber said...: Dallin's doing ok. He mostly ignores Abbie, but I'd prefer that to him trying to hurt her!; April 9, 2008 at 11:25 AM
stressedkris said...: Congratulations from the Hansen family next door. She is beautiful!

BTW- I am behind on your blog but I love having two kids and to have one of each bring both challenges and blessings. Enjoy the differences and if you ever get too overwhelmed you know where I live.; April 9, 2008 at 4:51 PM
Colette said...: Congrats! She's adorable and cute name.; April 10, 2008 at 8:43 AM
Amber said...: Thanks for all your nice comments, everyone! Jake and I think she's beautiful, but we're biased!; April 11, 2008 at 8:45 AM
MissManda-Mae said...: hi amber, I don't know if you remember me or not, but joe and I were friends of daron and krystals. I remember meeting you a few times at their house. I just had to write once i saw your cute little girl. SHE IS DARLING! Congrats on the newest edition. Dallin is too cute as well. From all your little posts i can tell you are a great mom and i wouldn't get too worried about the thought of having two... you stay a little bit busier, but it's not the nightmare they make it out to be...=) CONGRATULATIONS AGAIN!!!
--Joe and Amanda; April 13, 2008 at 9:17 PM

Laughter, the Best Medicine!

04/11 Abbie sings "I Love to see the Temple" but instead of saying "while I am young" she says "while yum, yum, yum."
12/10 I was telling Dallin I remember him when he was so small he was shorter than the kitchen table. He shook his head and said, "It was good times."
11/10 Dallin- "Mom, if I hugged you as hard as I could, your boobs would pop off!"
11/10 Dallin (in a very serious, thoughrful voice), "Mom, you can call me son if you want to."
10/10 Abbie- "This root beer is fuzzy!"
7/10 Dallin told me he wished Daddy wasn't old enough to work, so he could just stay home and work on the computer like I do! Apparently, I'm not old enough to have a "real" job!
6/10 Dallin calls "sprinkles" "sprinklers". He told me he wanted a donut with sprinklers!
6/10 Dallin yelled "oly-oxygen-free" during freeze tag!"
3/10 While Abbie was getting dressed today she pointed to her belly button and called it her "belly butt"!
12/09 Dallin is giving Abbie "goodness" lessons- lessons on how to behave. I'm not sure he's qualified. . .
11/09 Abbie loves telling knock-knock "jokes" which go like this: "knock-knock" "who's there?" "Ab-ee!"
11/09 Dallin will be starting Primary in January (he's the oldest in his class becasue his b-day is the beginning of January) and his nursery teacher started taking the kids into Primary during singing time so they can get used to it. When I told Dallin that he got to go sing in Primary, he asked, "If I don't sing good will they make me leave?" He was worried they would kick him out if he didn't sing well enough!
8/09 Dallin was "selling" ice cream (wood chips) at the park. I asked Dallin how much an ice cream was and he said, "15 bucks." "Wow, that's expensive!" I said. Then Dallin said in his best bargaining voice, "Ok, 14 bucks!"
1/09 Dallin is playing with his Star Wars characters, and I just overheard him say," What the heck! This is ridicrilous!"
1/09 Abbie loves me to jump out from behind doors and walls and "suprise" her and to crawl around chasing her, and then she giggles uncontrollably. Her laugh is so infectious!!
11/08 This morning we woke up to about 6 inches of snow, and it kept snowing all day. Jake said, "We got a new President, and hell froze over."
10/08 Dallin calls daytime "light time". In the morning, he goes over to the window and says "It's light time! That means we can GET UP!!!"
10/08 Dallin wanted to help me give Abbie her bottle. While we were feeding her I said, "babies are alot of work, huh?" Dallin looked at me for awhile, then said, "babies don't go to work!"
Dallin was playing with pirates at my in-laws house. While he played, he sang to them, in the tune of "Book of Mormon Stories": Given this land, if they live, Kill, Kill, Kill!
We try to read scriptures with Dallin every night before bed. He doesn't always listen, and I'm never sure how much he gets out of it. But the other day he told me one of his dinosaurs was "very, very mean." I said, "he is?" And Dallin told me, "he's very wicked." I guess he's listening after all!
03/08 On Easter, Jake's sister Janille's baby was blessed. Right before the prayer, when everyone was quiet, Dallin pointed to Janille's father-in-law, who's in his sixties, and shouted, "That's President Hinkley!"
Dallin and I went to the library last week, and the chinchillas were out "exercising" in their little balls. When the librarian put them away, Dallin got to pet them. I asked him today what he got to touch at the library, and he said "chinchillas" perfectly. Then I asked him what they felt like, expecting him to say soft and fluffy. Instead, he looked at me kinda weird and said, "like chinchillas!"
Jake has gas alot (you'll see why I so unpolitely threw that out in a second). The other day, when he 'passed gas' in front of Dallin, Jake pointed at me and said, "Mommy tooted!" Now, every time Jake 'breaks wind' Dallin points at me and says, "Mommy tooted!" Today Dallin 'fluffed' himself and blamed it on me!
Grocery shopping today, I told Dallin we only had one thing left to get and then we'd go home. He looked at me and answered, very seriously, "pay first." I'm glad I have my toddler to keep me honest!
Jake has been playing in a volleyball tournament this weekend, and Dallin and I went to cheer him on Saturday. In between games, Dallin loved to chase his ball on the court and pretend to spike it. The volleyball net is about 4 1/2 feet off the ground at the bottom, but every time Dallin would go under the net to get his ball, he would duck!
I try to compliment and praise Dallin as much as possible, because the kid tries my patience beyond measure, but I don't want to always be yelling at him for the bad stuff he does. So I try to emphasize the positive! I praise him a lot for eating well. This morning, as I was eating my yogurt, he looked into the cup and asked, "Almost all done?" And I said yes. To which he enthusiastically replied, "Good job, Mommy!"
We're trying to teach Dallin to say the blessing at dinner. As most of you know, he talks remarkably well for his age, so we thought he'd easily catch on and be praying by himself in no time. The first time we were praying with him, however, Jake whispered "say Heavenly Father," and Dallin shouted "Holla!"

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Monday, April 7, 2008

SHE'S HERE!!!

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