a sister

Introducing..........

Ailish Sinead

Ailish - means "noble, kind", it's a gaelic form of Alice or Elizabeth

Sinead - means "God is gracious", it's an Irish form of Jane

(go HERE and HERE to listen if you need help with pronunciation!)

At 19 weeks, 4 days, she is weighing about 11 ounces. 

All body parts are present and accounted for.

Everything measures nicely and is growing on schedule. 

We are thrilled to be welcoming another girl. The boys are really excited. They've both been pretty convinced the whole pregnancy that it would be a girl, as was Kieran, so confirmation that they were "right" was fun. 

I am always awed by the knowledge of our ultrasound tech, we've had the same one for the last 3 pregnancies and she's really good. She always points out what she's looking at, what things should be measuring and where we are. And though I must say I am pretty good at figuring out what is what in those "grainy black and white shots", I always pretty amazed when she says, "here's the bladder" and "I know, it's hard to see, you'll just have to take my word for it, but those are kidneys"....... wow, the things they can see!  

sigh....

He's becoming mobile much quicker then I anticipated.......

the stairs are now a breeze..... though he is not super stable and can't come down......

Hence we chase and grab this adorable boy numerous times thru the day..........

And try and convince to do something else........ like try and stand up against EVERYTHING ;-)

Pigtails

It's barely long enough, but it sure is cute with the little curls and a nice way to make her hair more manageable since it gets rather flyaway quickly!

Tadhg's opinion of a group photo............. ;-)

8 months

 

Tadhg Conor - 8 months

alot of "firsts" for you in the last couple weeks........ you've been a busy little boy!

~You are now sitting well, (just past 7 months) and working on getting mobile

~As of just shy 8 months, you are crawling, took a day or two of tentative crawling and it's now full speed ahead, you love your new found freedom and it didn't take long for you to realize you get picked up every time you get to the top of the stairs ;-)

~ as of this morning, April 4, you have one little tooth coming in

~ you are napping well, a morning nap and an afternoon nap, bedtime by 7 

~you are almost sleeping thru the night, we are doing it gradually and you are doing great. 

~You are nursing 4-5 times a day, plus taking about 24 ounces in supplemental formula.

~You love your "solids", peas and sweet potatoes are favorites, you aren't fond of bananas or applesauce

~ You were 17 pounds at 7 1/2 months and 17 pounds, 8 ounces a week later......!

this was just too cute, Tadhg carrying his tiger around like this!

And as of April 10.......... tooth #2 is sitting right next to tooth #1!
Also this week we are having great success at sleeping thru the night - 9:30/10 till 6:30/7!

You have also accomplished the feat of not only finding the stairs, but pulling yourself standing on the stair and within a couple more days you are climbing up the stairs quite proficiently. You are quite proud of yourself and though you have no clue how to get down yet, you love going up.