Merry Christmas Pics!

Aubry's First Christmas Pictures turned out so good (in my opinion)!!! Thank you to my dad for buying the precious outfit she's wearing! Thanks to Millie for the cute Santa jammies she's wearing in the first pic! And thanks to Heather for making the incredible bow last minute!! You guys rock!

I also entered Aubry into TheCuteKids Holiday Contest - so vote for her picture (just click on the link below).  You can vote once a day - and the winner gets $500 - come on, I need you! Thanks!

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Jingle Bell Run!

Yesterday my mom, Aubs and I participated in the Chevron Jingle Bell 5 mile run / 3 mile family walk in downtown Houston.  We had so much fun!  Mom decorated Aubry's stroller and walked with her so I could do the run.  She was so cute!  I think Aubry slept the whole time :)  We tried to get a picture with Santa, but Aubry wanted to eat instead - oh well!  Enjoy these pics we did get.

Aubry in her reindeer stroller with Christmas Minnie

Me, Mom and Aubs after the run

Me and Aubry at home after the run - horrible pic of me, but Aubry looks good :)

Old Time Christmas Tree Farm

Yesterday we braved the cold and took Aubry up to Tomball to help us pick out our Christmas tree!  We bought some cute Mickey, Minnie, and baby Minnie signs to put out in the front yard and then walked around the farm!  I can tell she really enjoyed picking out her very first Christmas tree! :)

Happy Thanksgiving!

Well we definitely have a lot to be thankful for this year!  Thankful for the most precious gift that is our sweet lil Aubry and so thankful for our wonderful families who have helped us so much this year!  We celebrated Thanksgiving at Keith & Millie's this year - had lots of fun, lots of food, and tons of dessert!  Thanksgiving night we watched the A&M vs. Texas game - ags lost, but oh well, it was a good game.  We then had Thanksgiving with my family on Saturday at my parent's house.  We watched OSU football, ate a ton, had a slight crisis with Aubry when everyone yelled after OSU recovered a fumble then subsequently fumbled the ball - she was passed out on cousin Melanie and it scared her and woke her up.  But after she ate she was sweet lil Aubry again - good to go! :)  So, thank you to all of our wonderful friends and family - we are truly blessed! 


Enjoy some Thanksgiving pics in the smilebox!

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Happy Halloween!

Well Miss Aubry celebrated her very 1st Halloween in style! She was the cutest lady bug ever! She and Sadie wore matching costumes :) She went trick-or-treating with her cousin Hannah and then we all went back over to Daniel and Heather's house to watch OSU football in the garage. We had tons of fun eating pizza and watching the trick-or-treaters!  I posted a bunch of pictures in the smilebox below - enjoy!

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Whooo Loves Fall?

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2 Months - Full of Smiles!

Well around 5 weeks old Aubry started smiling back at us when we were smiling at her - and not just cause she was going to the bathroom or anything! :) Now she smiles all the time - big, huge smiles. It's so freaking cute.

At her 2-month appointment she weighed in at 9 lb 8 oz & 21.5" long. So since birth she's gained 3 lbs and grew 3 inches!! She's finally out-grown her newborn clothes and is in 0-3 month outfits - though a little late - I bought so many cute summer 0-3 month outfits that she never got to wear or only wore once :(

This month was also Aubry's first college football game experience! We took her to the OSU vs. A&M game in College Station on October 10th with my parents & met Matt & Amy up there. Of course the weather was crappy - cold & rainy, so my mom and I stayed in the Association of Former Students with Aubs and watched the game on the big screen. Right before half-time we ventured up to our seats in the Zone since the weather had cleared up a little bit, but Aubry did not like the loud noises. Every time the guy said something over the loud speaker or the crowd cheered she would jump. So we stayed for half-time then went back to the Association to watch the rest of game. At least she looked adorable in her A&M/OSU outfit my mom and I made for her. :)

She also had her first set of professional pictures taken at 6 weeks. The girl at Picture People was so great with her and took some really good pictures. We got the same lady again when we went back to take Halloween pictures in Aubry's ladybug costume. They also turned out so great, we will definitely continue going to them and hopefully getting the same girl.

1 Month Already!

Wow - I know everyone says cherish every moment cause they go by quickly, but seriously, I can't believe Aubry is already 1 month old - time has flown by!  So far she has been such a great baby.  She's such a little toot though and already knows exactly how to get what she wants - which is usually for her mom to pick her up! :)  She's gotten so good at tummy time and is getting really strong - she'll pick up and turn her head to face you when you lay behind her!  She also really loves bath time (well she doesn't scream during bath time)!  She only screams when you don't feed her right when she's ready to eat - like when I choose to change her diaper first or when I have to finish pumping - geez, how dare I right! :) But you know, she's a growing girl - gotta eat!  Every now and again we can get a really big smile out of her - but of course, the camera is never ready!  I have so many pictures from this month I can't show them all on this post, but here are some from the "big" events.  Will share more of my favorites later!

Aubry ready for her first trip out of the house - to the Apple store so mommy could buy her iPhone! :)  (which is just about the greatest invention ever, btw)

Aubry taking her first bath

On her Tummy Time surfboard

Holding her bottle already! (ok maybe not, but she did for like a minute!)

Napping in her play pen in the living room

Sleeping in her bassinet in our room (the swaddling thing didn't last long, she doesn't like having her arms confined - now she sleeps in her sleep sack)

Happy Birth Day!!

So excited to announce that Aubry Rae Purvis was born Thursday August 20, 2009 at 3:15 a.m. weighing 6 lb 8 oz and 18.5 in long!

Here's my birth story! So Wednesday morning I woke up around 4 in the morning with some contractions, but I had been having them off and on for a few days, they weren't too painful, and I was able to fall back asleep so I didn't think much of it.  Woke up around 5:30, drove myself to work since Derek was working in Dayton that day, still having some mild contractions.  So I started timing them when I got to work (tracking them in an Excel spreadsheet - yes I know, I'm a dork).  They were still pretty irregular anywhere between 7 and 11 minutes apart and not painful at all.  Around noon they started getting a little closer together and a little more painful so I went downstairs, got a wrap for lunch, came back upstairs, ate, and called the doctor.  They suggested coming on in since they were I think 5 minutes apart at this point.  Well since Derek was in Dayton and not next door like he usually is, I called him & told him to meet me at the house because the Dr said to go on in to the hospital.  So we finally get home, get loaded up, fill the car up with gas, and get back up to the hospital at 3 p.m..  Got checked in and in the room by 4, Dr checked me at 5 - I was I think 4 cm & 70% at this point and my water had not broken yet.  Since I was GBS positive they wanted to administer a full dose (4 hrs) of the antibiotics before they broke my water.  So I laid around laboring about 5 min apart till 10 p.m. when they finally broke my water, but I was still only 4-5 cm.  But at this point the contractions really kicked into gear and by 11:30 p.m. I was asking for the epidural.  So basically at this point I could finally relax a little and continued to labor until 3 a.m. when I felt a gush (the rest of my water breaking), the nurse checked me and I was ready to go!  I pushed twice, waited a few minutes for the Dr to come in, pushed again and she was born at 3:15 a.m.!  Long labor - short delivery! :)  She came out so incredibly perfect!  Here are some pics....


Minutes after birth - happiest parents ever!

I'd like to introduce you to....

ok so still not telling the name! haha - but I can show you a face now!! Derek and I had the 3D/4D ultrasound done on Monday - so freakin' neat. She's the cutest thing ever! And apparently very comfortable folded in half as she had her feet up above her head the whole time! So who do you think she looks like? :)




that's her hand and her foot in front of her face - such cute lil toes!


yep that's her foot above her head :)

I'm bad at This!

Ok so I realize I'm a horrible blogger. Between work, school and working out I just don't have (make) time to get on here! But I have a few weeks until the summer session starts so I figured I'd update as much as I can...


A couple weeks back I had another ultrasound @ 23 weeks 4 days. Everything looked good. Still a girl :) My fundal height measured 22 cm, about 1.5 weeks behind, but the baby is measuring right on schedule, and I feel like I've ballooned in the past few weeks so I'm sure I'll catch up!


This past week @ 25 weeks 4 days I went in for the dreaded glucose test. Measured 25 cm - told you I would catch up! The drink was not nearly as bad as everyone makes it out to be. Got the results back - and I passed! woohoo, no GD diet for me :)

Don't have another appointment until mid June...seems so far away!

Yeah for Baby Furniture!

So I just couldn't wait any more! I was just waiting to find out for sure if we're having a girl or not before I started shopping, and well that came last week so this weekend we went to Babies R Us and bought the crib & the changing table! I had a set picked out that I really liked, but apparently they don't sell it anymore so we went with option #2 - matching Jenny Lind crib & changing table in Cherry. Same brand of crib I had, crazy huh! Unfortunately the set doesn't come with a matching dresser or bookcase or anything so I'll have to buy something eventually, once I figure out what I need.


So I spent this weekend finishing clearing out the room and trying to decide where the furniture should go. I think I switched between two different layouts five or six times before deciding which one I like best, for now anyhow. :) We do have a dresser in the room that doesn't really fit anywhere (the room has a weird layout), so I wrestled with it for a while (it's really heavy - marble top, and old & creaky) and finally got it in the closet! Then I realized that I never put the top drawer back in and well now I can't, unless I pull the dresser back out of the closet. I think I'll let Derek do that. :) I guess I should also mention that my entire set of at least 100 shot glasses are balancing on top of this dresser while I'm moving it around the room & into the closet. Would have taken too much time to move them! That's another thing I have to figure out - where all the shot glasses are now going to go.....

It's a......

GIRL!!! We are so excited to find out for sure that we are having a little girl! Now we can finally start shopping! We're pretty sure we have a name already picked out, but it's our little secret! :) Here are some of the ultrasound pics from yesterday's appointment and finally some belly shots. Not a big bump, but it's getting there!

Good Results!!

Just a quick update - The genetics counselor called with our first trimester screening results and everything came back normal! So far, healthy baby!

Active Baby, but Too Big!

So we went in this morning for what was supposed to be a repeat ultrasound for the first trimester screening. Long story short, the baby grew way too much this weekend and is now too big to do the tests. Derek thinks we are going to have a gigantic baby! The tech was nice though and let us get some more pics of the baby, which proved extremely hard since it was crazy active in there. Must have been the orange juice I had this morning....

Still not really showing much, though I don't think it'll be too much longer cause my belly button is really starting to shallow out... will start posting some belly shots soon. maybe. :)

I broke the Machine & Stubborn Baby!

So we went in today for the first trimester screening/genetic counceling appointment. Well we have quite the stubborn baby! They need certain ultrasound shots to check for down syndrome and the baby did not want to get in position! Then half way through, the ultrasound machine just completely shuts down! Now if you are familiar with my lasik catastrophy you will think this is funny. Apparently me and big expensive pieces of equipment just don't do well together. So I have to go back in Monday morning to repeat the ultrasound. Fine with me - more shots of the babe!

We did get to hear the heartbeat today for the first time! 148 bpm!

We also tried to get an early look at the gender, but stubborn baby wouldn't uncross his/her legs. BUT if the ultrasound tech had to guess she would say girl - no obvious male genitalia. We'll find out for sure, hopefully, at the end of March! So no shopping just yet!

Here are some shots from today's appt: