Sydney Fuller

My Aunt Natalee Wanted To See My Feet

She has a feet-fetish I guess. Natalee just got a dog.  She must want a baby with a lot of hair like me.

My Dad Made Me Wear This

Today, I am sporting some outfit my Dad bought for me.  He thought it was very funny. I also have a Latitude one that I will wear once I soil this one. If its not “I love my Mommy or Daddy”, its now this corporate crap. I just want to wear a Barney, Sponge Bob or Veggie Tales shirt! BTW, I love this chair.

We also have a video clip of the time in the chair. She is very alert.

Hey Jungbauer, I told you Sydney would be ready for our next convention!

Just Hanging Out

Video of Grandparents

Today, we are posting more video content. We have visits from Grandma Hakes and Grandma & Grandpa Coburn.

Bath Time

Alright, alright…more pictures.  All she does is sleep and eat. As far as pictures, sleeping is boring, and eating — well, this isn’t a porn site.  So tonight was bath night — we don’t like baths.

Baby Break

Dad is in California for a few days and Mom is solo with the baby. Maybe Mom will start posting soon!

Falling Apart

Ok, this kid is defective.  Now stuff is falling off of her.  What am I supposed to do with a belly button?  Maybe I can glue it back on.

Oddly, with this blog post, the big birth posting has fallen off the front page.  How time flies!

I Can Sleep Anywhere

Last night, the brainwashing began.  Let me explain.  Grandma & Grandpa Coburn are part of this seemingly growing cult of retired people who eat at the Cracker Barrel as their sole source of nutrition on this planet.  They know what soups they have on what days, how many sugar packets should be at each table, how many tables a good waitress can manage at once, Friday’s are fish night, what toppings come on the salad, how to order so they save the maximum amount on their bill, what interstate routes to travel to hit the maximum number of Cracker Barrels, and how to get the manager to sell them products out of the kitchen’s own freezer.  The Coburns also informed of another set of Cracker Barrel cultists on the Fuller-side (I am ashamed to say), who meet regularly at the Fort Wayne, Indiana, Cracker Barrel.  Its rumored that these cultists can even make the kitchen prepare a soup of the day that is NOT the soup of the day.  But back to the Coburns - I think they won the prize when their favorite Cracker Barrel waitress called them on their cell phone this morning asking them if they were coming in.

So we took Sydney to the Cracker Barrel for dinner last night.  She was quiet & slept the whole time except of the mess she made in her diaper in the parking lot.  I wonder if she was trying to comment on the experience.  Dad is not a Cracker Barrel fan  — anyone who doesn’t serve Eggs Benedict isn’t in the breakfast game!

Next Shift

Grandma & Grandpa Coburn arrived last night to a warm Colorado.

Who’s Kid Is This?

Kim took Sydney to the doctor today and she weighed in at a whooping 9 lbs. 3 oz.  She is gaining weight 2x fast as normal.  Not a bad thing - we just can’t figure out who she is taking after because we aren’t big or tall.

We also took her out for dinner with us for the first time last night.  Plopped her car seat right up on the table.  She slept the whole time.  Then on the way home, she made a present in her pants.  Boy this is fun.

A Different Perspective

Tonight we have a special correspondent, Grandma Hakes, blogging:

You knew Sydney was “Pretty in Pink”.  Now you know she’s “Pretty in Yellow” too.  Today’s morning jogging suit is a Carter’s knit and Sydney at 8 pounds 10 ounces as of yesterday at the doctor’s fits every square inch lengthwise, with room to growth widthwise.  Sydney is developing new habits of her very own; she sleeps most comfortably with her arms outstretched above her head,  she makes two little sweak sounds when she is happily dreaming, and even when she’s hungry - she stops crying when she’s out on the deck enjoying the fresh air.  Yes, she’s quite a little charmer and she’s done just that with Mom, Dad and Grandma Hakes this week.  She looks right at you today, and listens very carefully to every word you’re saying - just like it’s sooo important to her.  Dad’s favorite trick is when Sydney throws both legs up at the same time — he thinks she’s very talented, you know.   Mom of course is best known for her feeding, which Mom and Sydney have mastered wonderfully —- and Mom’s kisses are well received by Sydney as she turns her face to Mom’s cheek.  Well, this week has been a dream come true.  I will have to follow Sydney’s growth from Indiana next week - but Dad’s daily updates will be a lifesaver for me.   For other Grandparents, Aunts and Uncles on the schedule to visit —— be ready for a great visit.   Bye Sydney — Grandma and Grandpa Hakes love you VERY MUCH!!!!!

Getting Better

Each night is getting better as we all get our clocks adjusted to match up. The swing is a valuable place to put her when you need to get a few things done. Sydney had her first doctor’s appointment today and all went well….except for she peed all over the doctor when he took off her diaper. Sydney is in the 90th percentile for height and weight. Mom & Grandma took Sydney with them to the grocery today.  Mom & Grandma forgot to pack a diaper bag.  Everybody is learning the routine.  Next Grandparent rotation starts on Saturday, when Grandma & Grandpa Coburn come to visit.  Hope they are resting up before coming!

Video

I posted one segment of the hours of footage over the last few days. More to come. Leave comments if you see it to let me know it worked out OK for you.  Click on the videos link over the left to view.

Mother’s Day

Well, Kim was a Mom on Mother’s Day. Although, Mom got no sleep last night. Sydney has her days and nights mixed up right now so we get to have fun with that. Dad took over in the early morning so everybody else could get some sleep. Sydney laid on the floor with me on a pillow while the dogs licked her head and I played GameCube. This is working out OK. Grandma is here visiting now - so we had 3 generations of ladies here today.

Shhh…Baby with Punk Rock Hair-do sleeping ahead.

Some video of the occasion.

Home At Last

Mom & Sydney were discharged from the hospital at noon today.  It got a little cold here last night so Sydney got bundled up good.  Its so odd that on the way to the hospital, guys want to drive like a maniac.  Its a guy’s once in a lifetime excuse to drive as fast as you can.  Then when you finally get to take the baby home, you drive like a Grandma (pardon me, Grandmas).  Driving with the hazards on, cursing at anyone who doesn’t follow the letter of the law, 15 miles an hour, slowing over bumps.  Man, things change.

Upon arriving home, we were greeted with balloons, signs & flowers.  All the animals were intrigued by this new creature and smelled her intently.  Mom took Sydney up to the nursery to feed her and everybody followed…it was a parade.  The dogs continued to smell the baby’s feet for some time and then layed down on the floor as shown below.  The funny moment came when Cosmo attempted to get up near Mom to say “welcome back”.  Dakota stood up, went towards Cosmo, and shoved him away from Mom with her head very softly.  Cosmo was confused and kept trying and Dakota easily lifted her lip and exposed some teeth.  Cosmo was a bit afraid.  One thing is for sure — this is Dakota’s baby.  If you plan on getting near the baby, you have to have her permission.  It was instictive.  As you can see, one big happy animal kingdom.

Now I Am Awake

Sydney has gotten lots of time with the video camera today while she was awake but it was time to get a picture with her eyes open. Here she is just after a feeding. I will have DVDs available on Monday for those that want them with all the random video. Leave me a comment if you want one. I will also post some of the clips on the web site. I also have the larger originals of all these pictures from the web site suitable for printing. Mom has been up walking around today doing laps around the BirthPlace here.

By the way, any of you that have been visiting us here on the web that have not left comments for Sydney & Mom, need to do so. We are going to save all of them for Sydney for later in life. This is our record of what happened.

Day 2

Eat all night. Sleep all day. Isn’t that how the 80s rock song goes? Well, that is how Sydney is singing it. We think she woke up from her sleepy phase late last night. About every 20 minutes, she had something to say. She had a little choking late last night (normal) so we opted to put her in the nursery for a few hours so we could get some sleep. Might as well use the help while insurance is paying for it! In other birthing news, Sydney gave birth in her diaper this morning for the first time. Um, when are those grandmas coming to visit?!?

Nighty Night

Well, that was a long day.  30 more minutes and the birthday is over.  Things are pretty uneventful here — which is a good thing.  The plan is to go home on Saturday around noon.  We should have some neighborhood & friend visitors here tomorrow.  Mom & Sydney are getting this eating thing down pretty good — once Sydney wakes up.   She has been out most of the time.  Dad got a chance to run out and check on the other babies at home.  I will get more pictures up soon — but honestly they are all the same — Sydney sleeping.  Once she gets out of this sleepy phase (which is normal), we might be able to get some action shots.  Mom watched the birth tonight to re-live the experience.  I should have it online for you all this weekend.  Mom has been reading all your comments.  I think this worked out well for getting you the news as fast as we could.  BTW, ran into some of the folks from our prenatal class in the hall — she just delivered after 52 hours.  Our 14 now seems like nothing.  That’s it for today.  Big day is over…on with life.  Thanks for checking in.

Crazy

Some of you might have had trouble with posting comments today. Wouldn’t you know that we would have web server problems today. Should be OK now. They all should show up. And by the way, pictures of Sydney have been released without my permission. Thanks, Sem.

All Cleaned Up

Happy Birthday, Sydney

It is our pleasure to inform you of the arrival of Sydney Yvonne Fuller. Weighing in at a large 8 lbs. 13 oz. and 21.5 inches long, Sydney was born at 11:32 AM on May 8th, 2003. Mom pushed for 2+ hours. Everybody is doing fine. More to come later. Phone calls too I suppose! Thanks for all your help & prayers.

Its Time

Its time to start pushing.  Kim is fully dialated.  They can feel the baby’s head when they do the cervix check.  Here we go.

Still Going

Well, its about that time.  Kim is very close to 9cm.  Doctor is on his way into work.  Our room is prepped.  The baby is dropping down slowly.

All Nighter

Ok, this is starting to remind me of college days.  We are both pretty sleepy.  We have been trying nap in between checks from the docs.  Everytime you fall asleep the damn automatic blood pressure machine kicks in.  Just had the doctor in — Kim is at 7 cm (have to get to 10 cm).  She moved from 4 to 6 rather quickly but now its kind of slowing.  Next big check will be in two hours.  If progress is being made, things will continue this way.  If not, we will talk about alternatives.  To me the epideral seems to really slow down the contractions so its just a comfort vs. time trade-off I suppose.  Kim is snoring now - great.  Kim is getting a bit tired.  They just put the internal monitor on her so let me see if I can count - 1 tube in her back, 1 tube in her hand, 1 tube in her pee-pee, 1 tube in her vagina - oh and a blood pressure cuff.  Probably update you in a few more hours.

Good Morning

If you haven’t figured it out by now, we are at the hospital.  Kim’s contractions started getting worse around dinner time.  We waited it out until about 7pm then we packed up the car and headed to the hospital.  Contractions where 5-8 minutes apart and were lasting 1-2 minutes.  We arrived at the hospital and they put us in the triage room.  Here they monitor you for about an hour before you either get admitted or sent home.  They put Kim on the monitor and started measuring the baby’s hearbeat and the strength of the contractions.  They would come and go — no pattern seemed to be developing.  As we were out walking the halls trying to get things started, we ran into our doctor.  After talking with him, we all decided that now is the time.  Kim was admitted at 9:15pm. 

The contractions started getting stronger.  Kim took a nice jacuzzi bath as they continued to increase.  After the bath, she hit record highs and lengths for the contractions.  Luckily, the “superman” doc just finished up surgery and was available for the epideral — “Yes, Please.”   Epideral was adminstered at 11:45pm. Contractions stop for a while after the procedure which provided some relief as she waited for the medicine to kick in.

Kim is now relaxing.  She falls asleep for a bit and then wakes up.  Dad is on the laptop keeping all of you in the loop.

I am expecting a baby to show up around 4am MT.  We will see.  Thanks for all your kind comments today.  Update you soon…

Thinking About Leaving

Getting a lot stronger. Not quite to the point when we are supposed to leave yet. Very close.

Still Home

Still contracting. Getting stronger. Not closer.

Its Starting?

We have contractions….at least some small, spread out ones.  Got as close as 7 minutes apart this morning around 6am but then later died off.  Still at home of course.

Your Daily Update

The update is that there is no update.  Mom is fine.  We are starting to think the baby is stubborn.  Yesterday at the doctor’s appointment, the doctor did something to the membrane in or near the cervix that is supposed to help things along.  That didn’t seem to work.  It did caused some discomfort to Mom.  But Dad won the prize for discomfort yesterday — after hours of painstaking self-surgery on the couch, a small piece of wood was removed from deep within his foot!

Weekly Visit to the Doctor

Doctor was surprised she had not seen us yet.  Mom is 1.5 cm dialated.  Mom is going back to the doctor on Friday if the baby doesn’t show up to talk about induction.

Now Its Overdue

Ok, why do they call it a due date?  They should call it an estimated time of arrival (ETA).  Seems like the ETA right now is “not soon”.  No update.  Mom feels fine.

Its Due Now

Ok, I stayed up late…its May 3rd now and there is no baby here.  Today is the official due date if you are just joining us.  They say the average is that only 5% have the baby on the actual due date.  I can’t seem to find out when the other 95% have the baby.  Seems like it should be heavily distributed around that date of course.  Before we cruise to the hospital, I plan on making a quick entry here in the blog to let you know its underway.  There will be no calls until after the baby shows up for real.  Then I will try to escape from the hospital in the middle of the night or the next appropriate time to get the pictures posted.  My goal is to get the pictures up on the day of the birth.  Stay tuned!