Visitors

Right before we left North Carolina. On the hottest day of my life. With our one week old daughter. Whew!

Doug and I were lucky to have lots of visitors during the first weeks of Jordan's life. My mom came to North Carolina one week before my due date to be here when she was born. I feel so lucky to be able to share in the birth of my daughter with my own mom. Such a great experience. She was able to help us with the move and baby and stay until we were settled.

Doug's parents were scheduled to come into town for his graduation/birthday and ended up getting here the day after she was born (how's that for timing?) Doug's brother Pat also came into town, so we had a full house. We also had friends stop by to meet Jordan and unfortunately say goodbye. It is so hard to say goodbye to friends and wonderful memories that we made these past four years in North Carolina. But we are looking forward to the next step and great things to come this year.

With Grandma Ceil in the hospital on Jordan's birthday


The Burgess Family

With Chad

With Heather & her daughter Lauren

Our fantastic neighbors

With Gretchen & Trisha

Welcome to the World Baby Girl!

On Wednesday morning, the day before my scheduled induction - I started having active contractions around 3:00 AM and we went to the hospital around 9:30 AM. By that time, my contractions were coming around a minute apart.

All together we were barely at the hospital for 4 hours before she made her appearance. In fact, my mom had to run to the car to grab the camera right before she was born.

Jordan Marie Burgess was born on June 16 at 2:06 PM. She was 7 lbs. 1 oz. and 19 1/4 inches long. She has blond hair, blue eyes and is completely healthy. She is beautiful and gets cuter every single day.

Here are a few photos from her birth and hospital stay. The rest can be seen here.

First official photo

Our family photo

With Grandma Ceil

First diaper change - Dad put on.

Overdue & What to do?

Being overdue was probably the hardest part of my pregnancy. Normally, I don't think it would have been a huge deal, except we were moving to South Carolina soon after her due date. And everyday that I went over was one day closer to the move. Oh, and did I mention it was brutally hot? After our first trip to Labor & Delivery. Early labor at 40 Weeks.

So when you are 41 weeks pregnant - what do you do?

We taught Willie to catch a Frisbee. Which may not sound that amazing, except this is a dog who exclusively caught tennis balls. Getting him into a new genre was quite a feat.

We walked. Everywhere. We tried to think of new places that were inside to stay out of the heat. I can now say that I have walked every single aisle at Lowe's. It took hours.

We took Mom to Wilmington - one of our favorite places and had dinner at our favorite restaurant. We watched a Durham Bulls game.

At Wrightsville Beach near Wilmington - a fun day trip.

After the Bulls Game

We waited with anticipation. We waited one extra week. She was totally worth it.