Weekend "round up"

Thursday night we started off by taking the girls to the Bull Bash. Jordis was really into it, clapping everytime the rider came out and was actually paying attention for the most part. On the other hand, Elise was more interested in climbing up and down the stairs and in what everyone was eating. Saturday my mom and I took the girls to the parade while Ryan was off hunting in Elk city, still no elk brought home:(. The rest of the weekend we were pretty lazy and just stayed home and ran a few errands. I have noticed that the girls are playing "pretend" alot more. For the most part they are playing really well together and don't fight that often, but they have been playing "mommy and baby" so the one that is the baby is always crying. Half the time I don't know if they are playing or if they are really upset or hurt. If I don't have crying babies in my house I have 2 meowing kitties. I don't know which one is worse. I don't have any new pictures of Layla but Christel has finally updated her blog and has newer ones than me so check it out. If anyone wants to know how I changed my blog background, go to www.cutestblogontheblock.com and it will give you tons of backgrounds to choose from. I think I am going to change it more often now that I know how to do it.

Bare with me....

I am in the middle of choosing a new layout for my blog and am having troubles so hopefully in the next day or two I will have it fixed.

More pictures of Layla

Grandma Eloise with her sixth grand-daughter.
Aunt Chelle and cousins Elise and Jordis
We finally were able to see her out of her blanket and hat
All bundled up again!
The girls with their other cousin Kaytlin.(my brother Bob's daughter)

Welcome Layla Marie Lucas!

The Lucas Family
Layla Marie Lucas
Proud Daddy Richie

Well Layla finally decided to show us her beautiful face at 8:23pm tonight after about and hour and a half of pushing. She is 8 lbs 6&1/4 oz, 22 inches long and has kind of strawberry blond hair. From my other blogs you all know that Christel went in dialated to 2 cm and stayed that way until about 2 pm today when she finally changed to 4cm. At around 5 pm they upped her potosin to speed things up and it must have worked because I went home just before 5 pm and mom called me at 7pm and said things were really speeding up. When I got there at 7:20 she had already been pushing and only pushed for another hour before she was born. She is so beautiful and I think she will be a good nurser because her tongue was out right after she was born looking for something to latch onto. She did find her thumb which we all laughed about because Christel was a thumb sucker for a long time. Christel is doing well but really needs a good night sleep because she basically has been up since around 5am Fri morning. Here are a couple of pictures from tonight and I will post more after I see her tomorrow. Love you Christel, you did great!!!

No baby yet!!

It is 8:20 am and there is still no baby! She is still dialated to a 2 so they started her on potosin(sp?). The nurse said she should have her by 6 pm tonight so hopefully this evening I will be posting pictures. Just thought I would update everyone that is patiently waiting like me for this baby:)

Her water broke!

Last night Christel stayed with me since cell phones were down and she was at home by herself. This morning about 7:30 am she told me that she thought her water broke and was going to go home to meet Richie and then go to the hospital. I just talked to my mom and she said that Christel has been admitted and that her contractions are 5 minutes apart. I guess she has been having contractions for awhile but she didn't know it because she thought they were just little cramps. So now I don't know if I should go to work or go to the hospital, since I didn't have a natural birth I don't really know how things progress. I am planning on working until I get a phone call that things are moving along faster. I will post pictures as soon as she has the baby. Keep your fingers crossed that it will be somtime today.

Cell phone trouble

It is 8:45 thurday night and my phone is not working and neither is Ryan's. I was just wondering if anyone else is having trouble with their's. I cannot call out on it and Ryan's will ring when he calls but then it says call ended. My luck my sister will go into labor tonight and I won't know until morning. Hopefully it starts working soon because we don't have a land line so it's our only phone. So if you notice that your phone isn't working tonight please leave me a comment so I know it's not just mine.