1 month old

Grace is ONE month old today!

Some face huh?...

Her eyes are mighty blue right now, but they say they can still change, so we'll see.

We went to the doctor on Friday for her 1 month check up. She now weighs 8 pounds 9 ounces and is 21.5 inches long. I never knew I could love someone so much!

Photos

Incase you haven't seen my photography blog, there are some pictures of Grace on there that I took when she was just 11 days old.

http://www.memory-lane-photos.blogspot.com/

Mother's Day

My first Mother's Day was definitely special. I never thought I'd be able to say that I brought my bundle of joy home from the hospital on Mother's Day, but I can!

Grace wore home the exact same dress that I came home from the hospital in...

Family shot before I was wheeled out!

Ready to go!

We rode by Strategic and Scott noticed the message on the sign, I told him to turn around because I had to have a picture!

When we got home we all three took naps. This is one of my favorite images of Scott & Grace so far!

Scott & Grace gave me a beautiful Pandora bracelet for Mother's Day with beautiful charms! :)

Bulls Bay

This past weekend was Grace's first trip to the Bay. We rode home with Gigi because Scott had a boat show in Morehead City. As we were turning down Bulls Bay road I told Grace where we were and she smiled one of the biggest smiles! It was too cute! Here are a few pictures from the weekend.

Nonnie & Grandaddy met us down at the house when we arrived. It was Grandaddy's first time seeing Grace!

Grace & I napping after the family reunion on Saturday.

The Wilmington crowd came, so Nonnie & Grandaddy had all of their great-grandkids together. Here's a shot of Cade, Jaxon, & Dawson playing on Saturday.

When we arrived at the Bay we realized that our air conditioning didn't work. So Grace & I stayed with Gigi & Big Daddy until our air got fixed!

Big Daddy even fixed us all pancakes Sunday morning before Church. :) I just had to take a picture of them! They were YUMMY!!

Mrs. Myrtle holding Grace after Church.

Grace, so peaceful & *SWEET*!

Annana & Gigi

Thanks to everyone who has sent a card or called to check on us! However we couldn't have made it without Annana & Gigi. Annana came up on Monday and spent the night with us and Gigi came Tuesday night and stayed the rest of the week. They hauled us all around back and forth to doctors appointments, etc.

Visitors...

When Grace arrived you could already tell how many people loved her with the amount of phone calls, flowers, gifts, & visitors that came. :) Here's a picture of Grace with some of her visitors.

Uncle Capi & Aunt Brooke

Bridget & Stephen

Jacquelyn

Uncle Jason

Grandaddy Terry

Gotta run for now. I'll post more pictures of visitors & Grace soon! XOXO

Friday, May 8, 2009

Allie Grace McLaughlin has arrived! Friday morning around 1am I woke up with contractions so Scott & I headed to the hospital as my contractions were 5-6 minutes apart. We arrived at Rex Hospital around 2:30am. Long story short... at 3am my water broke, at 5am I was 5cm & shortly after Gigi, Big Daddy, & Annana arrived! Just after 7am I was 10cm, so I labored down for an hour and then started to push. Grace arrived at 9:45 am.

Here's a picture of Scott & I waiting to meet Grace!

Meeting Grace...

Some Daddy time...

Perfect!

With Dr. Littleton...

Proud Gigi & Big Daddy...