Katelyn is 4 weeks old!

It is hard to believe that katelyn is already 4 weeks old! We are all doing well and adjusting to parenthood. We would like to thank all of our family and friends who have been so helpful to us over the last few weeks. We are very blessed to have such great love and support. Below are some pictures we have taken over the course of the last few weeks. You'll be able to see how much she is already changing. Enjoy!

Katelyn's first day home

Aunt Blythe and Katelyn

Grandma Rose and Katelyn

Daddy and Katelyn- here she has decided she'll try to eat off his breast :)

Katelyn's first big girl bath... she really loves it!

Meg wanted to check out what was going on

Kately enjoying her crib and mirror

Meg keeping guard of Katelyn

Meg keeping guard again :)

These are her 4 week pictures

Hospital pictures-Katelyn's arrival

Guess it's better late than never, but here are some pictures from our hospital stay when Katelyn was born. It's amazing to look at these and then at her now to see how much she has changed already in such a short amount of time.

Here we were still in the OR

Katelyn Lee Alt has arrived!

We are proud to announce the arrival of our little girl, Katelyn Lee. She was born 12/29/09 at 11:37am. She weighed 7 lbs and 1oz and was 19.75". We brought her home on New Year's Day! What a wonderful way to ring in the new year. We have been busy the last couple of weeks getting to know each other and are still trying to figure out all this parenthood stuff. We laugh because we say that we feel we are two fairly well educated people but when it comes to the baby thing, we feel like we know NOTHING! :) Fortunately Katelyn in quickly teaching us or should I say at least guiding us to figuring it out. She is a really sweet baby and we feel so very blessed to be her parents. We had her pictures taken in the hospital which we have posted some below. They turned out really cute. She was quite funny when the photographer came in to get her ready for her first photo shoot. She was actually sound asleep and when the lady woke her up she just laid there with her eyes wide open looking at the camera. We looked at each other and laughed thinking about what we are in for. :)

We will post updates soon. Thank you to everyone for all your love, support and help you have offered throughout both the pregnancy and also since Katelyn's arrival. We greatly appreciate everything.

Christmas 2009

We hope that everyone had a merry and blessed Christmas. We can hardly believe it's already come and gone. Where does the time go? We had a really nice Christmas. Christmas eve we spent with family at Todd's sister's house and Christmas Day we spent with family at Stef's cousin Blythe's house. Thank you to you both! We also got to spend time with friends Wendy and Brian and her parents on Christmas Day. Todd had to work at the station Christmas Day. We feel very fortunate to have been surrounded by family and friends this holiday. We even got to spend a little time with a very special Santa :) You will see pictures below.

Parker, Stef's little cousin, riding his new big wheel we gave him

Very curious about the big box, here he was opening his present

Santa Shackelford made a very special visit to Parker's house. Thank you Santa for making this such a memorable experience for us all :)

Parker and Santa

Santa with the "belly." This was Katelyn's first visit with Santa Claus.

Santa with Stef's mom

Our very special Santa

Rose and Ron with their new bikes

Drew opening his gifts

Todd got a Rubix cube from Drew... we took this picture because it may be the only time we see it this way... I remember these being very difficult to figure out once they are turned.

Steph and Dan... our lovely hosts for christmas eve

Here is Dylan with his new golf clubs.

Meg opening her Christmas gifts... she LOVES gift bags!

Everyone had a wonderful Christmas!

Katelyn's Nursery... Finally finished

After what seemed like months of work, Katelyn's nursery is finally finished and ready for her arrival. Everything has been re-done. New floors, paint, moldings, light fixture, furniture, window coverings and accessories. All now ready for our precious little girl. Below are a few pictures taken of the final product... it's made for a little princess!

Tomorrow is our 38 week appt. and we hope to hear that the baby has turned into position. If she hasn't we will most likely be having a c-section next Tuesday, 12/29. We will post an update as soon as we find out more definitive news.

Stef's cousin Blythe painted the little birds on the letters for Katelyn's name to match the bedding.

Todd did a ton of work on this room, including putting together all the baby necessities. Here he is finishing putting together her swing... it was the last item that needed assembly (well... at least for now :)

37 week Baby Update

Well, we are finally on the home stretch of what has been an amazing journey towards parenthood. We had our 37 week appt. on Monday and because our little one is STILL in the breech position, we underwent another sonogram to check positioning, heartrate, breathing, fluid levels, etc. Everything checked out great except that she is still breech. The doctor said it is still possible she will turn but in the event she doesn't we are most likely looking at a c-section before the end of the year. Although a c-section is not ideal, as long as Katelyn gets here healthy and safe that is all we care about. So, mom and baby are doing good. Mom is getting very tired and having the usually expected back pain, swollen feet and restless nights, but we know it will all be worth it in the long run :) Below is the only picture we got of Katelyn on Monday, which is a pretty good image of her little face. Her cheeks look nice and chubby :)

We will keep you all posted on progress and will post pictures after the big day! We hope everyone has a wonderful and blessed Christmas next week.

Katelyn at 37 weeks

35 Week Baby Update

We are offically into the swing of the holidays which means we are also officially less than 5 weeks away from meeting our new little girl. We are now on weekly scheduled doctor visits until she decides it's time to make her entry into the world. At the appt. this week all checked out very well. Strong heartbeat in the high 140's and mom checked out good too. They informed me that because of my "advanced maternal age" (did I really admit that???) that we will undergo weekly non-stress tests. Apparently this is standard and very routine for us "older" mothers. This coming week however the doctor ordered a biophysicial profile test which is similar to the NST but also includes an ultrasound... so we can check her position as they weren't entirely sure she has moved into position yet. So, we excitedly get to see our little peanut again before she is born :) If they give us pictures we will be sure to post them after our appt. on Monday afternoon.

Otherwise we are putting the final touches on Katelyn's nursery, packing hospital bag, installing car seat, etc. The doctor said that at this point if she decides to come early they wouldn't stop her. We'll see...

Will post more information after our appt. Monday.