Emma's second month

We traveled to Lincoln for Emma's first Christmas and stayed for two weeks so all of the family could meet her and spend time with her.  She was a great traveler and I told her she is going to have to get used to it because there will be many more trips in her future!

Reading about bugs with Uncle Jesse & Aunt Teresa

Great Grandma Barry

Great Grandpa Olson

Christmas Eve

Aunt Heather

Emma's first month

We took Emma home from the hospital on Friday Nov 15th.  The cats were very curious about her, sniffing and looking at her as she slept.  Meme and Papa stayed with us for a week and then grandma and grandpa came to visit for a week over Thanksgiving.  After Thanksgiving we went to the tree farm to get Emma's first Christmas tree.

Arriving home from the hospital

First walk

Meme & Papa

Our Christmas tree

coming home from the tree farm

Grandma & Grandpa

First time in the swing

Emma Noelle Hiatt

Emma arrived on Wednesday Nov 13, 2013 at 4:18 pm at Madison Hospital.  I started having contractions Saturday night Nov 9 but they were irregular until Tuesday around 4 pm after I got home from work.  I called Andrew to come home from school and we waited until 7 pm to leave for the hospital when they were about 5 mins apart.  I was only dilated to 2.5 cm so they observed me a couple hours while I dilated to 3 cm when they admitted me.  By 3 am I was dilated to 6 cm and got an epidural, around 7 am I was dilated to 9 cm.  We then had to wait for Emma to descend further down to begin pushing.  Around 1:30 pm I began pushing and pushed for over 2 hrs until I couldn't push anymore.  We waited for the Dr to come and he used the vacuum to deliver Emma at 4:18 pm, what a relief!  She was a beautiful, healthy, & happy baby weighing 7 lbs 0 oz and 19.5 inches long.

Nursery

The nursery is officially finished!  Now we are just waiting for baby Hiatt's arrival!

Grandpa's visit to Alabama

Grandpa and mom came to visit Oct 11-15.  We had a great time together and great weather.  Saturday we we walked through the botanical gardens and looked at all the scarecrows.  That night we made a fire in our fire-pit and ate smores.  Sunday we went to church and the US Space & Rocket Center.  Grandpa really seemed to enjoy having Andrew as his tour guide and gave the gift shop a lot of business!

The scarecrow the Therapy dept. I work with made

Duck Dynasty hay bales

Bottom of the SaturnV

Baby Showers

We were blessed by two baby showers while we were in Lincoln.  Teresa and mom gave us a shower on Sat Aug 31st for lunch and Heather and Arlene had a shower for us on Sat Sept 7 for brunch.  It was great spending time with family and friends.  We were thankful to drive home with a car full of goodies for baby!