Scarlett Jane Harris

Scarlett was born yesterday, March 18th at 4:24 p.m. She is 7lbs, 5 oz and 19.5 inches long. She is so beautiful! They induced me at 10:45 A.M. and my contractions were pretty light until 2:40 p.m. when my doctor came and broke my water. Then things ramped up quite a bit! In fact, the epidural didn't even have time to take full effect. The anesthesiologist said it probably took some of the edge off, but I never had any numbness or even tingling in my legs. She's a total cutie!



Here we are getting ready for the big day.



This is right after she was born. Her face is bruised from the quick delivery and her little eyes are still swollen.



I, of course, always knew Wes would be a great father, however, the amount of love, tenderness, and total fascination he has with Scarlett has surpassed even my expectations. They really are quite precious together.



Like I said...adorable!

More pictures to come!!!

Baby Love

Yesterday, my Room Mom threw me a baby shower. It was so much fun! She invited all of the kid's moms, too. I would say about 15 moms showed up, which made it even more fun and wonderful. This was my first baby shower, so it was great to be able to gush about how excited I am and have everyone around me be equally as excited. The students were so adorable in how jubilated they were to give me presents and play baby shower games. All of the moms who were there said their kids had been talking about it all week long. Pretty cute! Here are some pictures.


The Food


The Presents


The Students and The Moms


Me Opening Presents


The take home gifts my Room Mom made for all of my students.


This is right after I pulled out all of my gifts to show Wes. Everything you see is presents from the shower. It was crazy!

Needless to say I was overwhelmed by the love and support shown from my students and their families. We got so many adorable blankets, outfits, shoes, diapers, bath time stuff, medical stuff, etc. Little Scarlett will be one warm, cute, clean, and healthy baby!

On a quick, separate side note, for Valentine's Day, I got some new Maternity Clothes. (I am SO sick of wearing the same 4 outfits over and over and over again.) Here are some pics of a few of them.





Five more weeks to go!!!

Random Thoughts

Well, this is week 33 for me. Only 7 more weeks of pregnancy to go! My good friend at work who was supposed to have her baby only three weeks ahead of me ended up going into labor and delivering 7 weeks early due to an infection in her placenta. So, I have been kind of nervous since then that Scarlett will try to come early. That really wouldn't fit into my schedule at all! :) My mom has already bought plane tickets for March 24 - April 7th. So, she would, like, completely miss my maternity leave if I had the baby too soon. I am getting very excited, but I am also getting very nervous. The freaky birthing dreams have begun. I won't EVEN go into those! Wes and I signed up for prenatal classes that begin on February 15th and last for four weeks. He's super stoked...alright, not really. Although, I'm pretty excited. We're hoping they teach us something about what to do with a baby...since neither of us have any idea. Luckily, my mom will be here and she can impart all of her baby wisdom onto us. Thank goodness for Grandmas, what would us Moms do without them?

New York New York

Jennifer and I enjoyed our stay in the New York New York Casino in Las Vegas on our way to California for Christmas. Apparently this is not a boom time for Vegas and the hotel rates are significantly cheaper during this time of year, so we used it as a pit stop. Being the bottom feeders that we are, we still chose the rock bottom hotel room offered in the New York New York. I did not know this and while we were checking in I asked Jennifer with excitement which of the room options we were going to check into. She pointed to the cheapest one. The very nice clerk said, “Oh we can’t let you stay there, we’ll let you sample something a little different.”

Here was his idea of something different.

We were in a suite with green windows.

So yeah, it was a nice pit stop.

Just in case you guys ever wondered what kind of a teacher I am...

One of my beloved little students anonymously left this sweet note on my desk.



Looks pretty cute, right? Let's take a closer look.



That's right everyone, I'm second best!!!