These days...

We are enjoying Ilana's hands (that she practices folding before every meal),Ilana's feet,
and Ilana's hair.
Moses loves to help.
We're doing great!
ps-we're also enjoying our 2-hour increments of rest every night.

And her name shall be...

(drum roll please...)
Ilana Christine Miller

These are some of my favorites...

SHE'S HERE!!

Well, my water broke 10:30 Wednesday night...

And after 27 hours of labor...

WE HAVE A BABY GIRL!!!!


Here's the stats:
8 lbs. 5 oz.
19 1/2 " long
Born: 4/18/08 at 12:17 a.m. (!!)
Name: TBD (we were so convinced she was going to be a boy, that we've had to go back to square one with the whole name thing)

More photos to come.
-H

Size matters

I'm just here to lament one small fact...I AM BIG, I mean really big. I get asked multiple times a day how many babies I will be having (even a total stranger at the bank today asked me if I was having twins!). It's a little embarrassing to have gone from regular smalls to maternity extra larges and here's the result...
my belly still hangs out!! Can you say ALL OUT FRONT?!
I never would have thought that my body could stretch like this, and if you had shown me this picture even 5 months ago, I would never have thought that this person was me. Well, here's to being 6 days from your due date!
-H

Oh, what a day!

Sunday was a fantastic day! I'll mention the highpoints:

• My incredible husband gave me a full-body massage (after not sleeping for about 3 nights straight).
  

• We went through baby everything (can you say "over consumerism?!"), making piles of those things we wanted to return.

• We gathered our wits about us, as well as our gift cards, and headed out to make returns.

• We went to: JCPenney, Sear's, Lowe's (not to do any returns, just because we were in the area), Kohl's, Macy's, Babies 'R Us, Olive Garden (a SURPRISE dinner break for me!) and Target.

Yes, that's a total of 7 stores and 1 restaurant in about 7 hours. At 39 weeks pregnant, I think we did pretty good! We spent a good amount of the day talking about the "nuts and bolts" of what life after the baby will be like. Crazy things are happening around here!
-H

All my bags are packed!

But I'm not quite "ready" to go. We're taking care of all those annoying last-minute details, like our email "Baby Announcement" distribution list, etc. etc. etc.
We had a wonderful shower in Annapolis this past Saturday. It was a great time! My parents' house looked amazing (they've been deep in construction for 2 years and now their house is beautiful). Here are some pictures of the day...

This is my sister-in-law, niece and I. Believe it or not, my sister-in-law is pregnant with her second and due only 5 weeks after I am (May 28). She looks about like I did at Christmas time (maybe even before that). She knows she's having a girl. It's going to be a fun spring!

I guess we could call this my 38-week "belly" shot. As you can see, I don't have any shirts that fit me all that well anymore.

Thanks Mom and Dad for a fabulously wonderful shower! We are most certainly blessed to have the support that we do.

-H
ps-if you want to make sure you're on our "Baby Announcement" distribution list, send us an email and let us know.