Happy 1 month Jace!

Dave and I have had such an amazing 4 weeks with Jace. I have gotten to spend a lot more time with Jace than Dave. It is amazing how much they change in such a short period of time. He is developing his own personality and he has some characteristics of each of us.

Jace Christian Douglas

Jace Christian Douglas was born on Wednesday, February 25, 2009 at 2:23pm. He weighed 6lbs and 8oz and 18 1/2" long. He came into this world the most quiet baby ever! He barely cried and was more interested in taking in his surroundings.

I was in labor from 7:00am until 2:23pm, I had the best epiderual EVER! I was numb from about 10:00am until 11:00pm. The build up and anticipation was much worse than the actual process. I believe the IV actually hurt the most. I had requested that it was placed somewhere in my forearm so that when I was pushing or moving around there was no risk of it pulling out of my hand. The nurse took 20 minutes to place the IV in my arm and only had to stick me once!

Here are some photos of our baby boy!

Baby Jace update

As of Monday, 2/16/2009 we were 80% effaced and 1.5cm dilated! As of today, 2/20/2009 I have no idea if we are progressing or just hanging out until March 5th. The doctor was pretty shocked on Monday that I was already almost completely effaced and stated that we might have an early baby or closer to his due date.

Since, Dave and I are pretty impatient we have assumed that Baby Jace has taken up this characteristic and he is pretty well done living in "Waterworld" and ready to come visit. However, if he has timing like his father he will come when he is good and ready. We have a doctor's appointment on Monday, 2/23/2009 to see if we have progressed some. I pray that we have, I am ready to wear all of my non-tent like clothes again. :) And of course, to have a nice glass of wine when my sis-in-law comes to town!

Other news, Dave passed his Texas Teachers Certification test! Woo Hoo! He will be teaching/coaching at a local high school this fall and can't decide where to start his career.

Keep us in your prayers, because this mommy to be is ready to be just a mommy. :)

First Baby Gift

We received our first baby gift today, I was so excited that I had to put it all together. Dave proceeded to watch and record the National Geographic documentary of nesting. I was so proud that I made Dave take a photo.

Life update!

I am terrible at updating this thing. Let's see where to start....

Baby Douglas
Baby Douglas is a boy! and what a boy he is (if you get my drift).We have settled on the name Jace and have recently started changing the middle name around. We are contemplating three middle names Rhys, Marshall, and Jaxon (Jackson). Personally, I would prefer Marshall as it has some meaning, it was my great-great grandfather's name and I think that it would be nice to re-use an older name that is dying out. Dave is torn.

I am doing well in the weight gain department, I am now 30 weeks and have only gained 9 lbs! The doctor is a little concerned, hence an ultrasound in 2 weeks. So our due date can change or I could have been just a good pregnant girl! Ok, I am not going to lie, I eat Oreos, ice cream Snickers and I go through about 3 gallons of milk a week by myself! I even try to eat a huge breakfast on days I have to go to the doctor. I am just not gaining weight and I swear I am trying. Dave has had to defend my eating habits to the doctor on more than one occasion. So the good news, I will pop this baby out and go home in my pre-pregnancy clothes! WOO HOO!

The baby shower is on January 26th and will be held at my parents house. I know we have tons of out of town family and they would like to send to gifts for Baby J. We are registered at Babies R Us and Target. Our Babies R Us registry has a ton of stuff on it (have you been to that store? I could stay all day long with my scanner. Its shopping and not spending money!) Please please check the registry prior to buying something, I am at the waddling stage and I don't want to have to waddle to the store to exchange things because I got (2). Also, if there is something not on our registry and you just would have died if you didn't have when you had a newborn, I WANT IT! :)

Coach Douglas
We received some news that Dave's graduate asisstant position with UH would not be renewed. They were not generally happy with his performance. Which is fine, if you can find someone else who practically slept at the office everyday and their performance is much more satisfying... go right ahead. We will move on (which was a part of our plan anyway) to bigger and better things. The news was a bit stunning considering Dave's work ethic and how hard he had worked. God has closed this door but will open a door/window soon. We should hear something soon about a job in Louisiana like around Jan 1st, so please pray this is the job for Dave. He would appreciate all of your prayers and thoughts and positive energy!

I can't believe.......

I guess in the midst of all the blog business and baby business I forgot to tell my husband that we have a blog! After he found the link on my facebook, he was looking through our blog and after a few minutes of silence, he looked at me and said "I can't believe you put a picture of your vagina on the internet." I nearly died of laughter, as I soon realized he was refering to our ultrasounds. Men the way they think.....

Anyways, so here is another picture of our beautiful child. This picture was taken at our spina bifida ultrasound, so it wasn't a very sweet moment. After the results came back, we ohh and ahh some over the profile of our baby. I want everyone to notice the size of our baby's head, that doesn't come from my side of the family.......

October 20th, we find out the sex of the baby (if it cooperates) so we are taking estimations. We have heard from the official baby predictor, that we are having a boy. So what are your thoughts?

Hurricane Ike

Well we survived Hurricane Ike! Actually, it wasn't as bad as the media displayed. I stayed with my parents while Dave evacuated with the football team to Dallas. We lost power around midnight on Friday night and we had power restored on Sunday. My parents had very little damage, two rows of fencing down and just a little debris. We had just some debris and our rake is missing from our backyard. I often wonder if it ended up in someone's roof. Power was restored to the Douglas house on Tuesday after the hurricane. The Douglas and The Laytons were truly blessed and were shown favor by the Lord. There are some people still without power, please pray for them as the Houston heat has returned.