Ivy: Three Months-ish

Are you sensing a theme here yet? One of these months I'm going to take her pictures on time, and then won't you be impressed!!

Ivy has had a bit of a rough month. She caught a cold that turned into RSV, and three weeks and much coughing later she contracted it again! Thankfully the second time wasn't quite so bad. No trips to the ER this time, but she did get an ear infection that made her feel pretty miserable.

The RSV didn't affect her appetite though! When I brought her in at 3 months(for the ear infection,) she weighed 11lbs, 2oz!

Ivy loves to play in her bouncy seat. A few weeks ago she started reaching out for the toys! Still gets up every couple of hours during night to eat, but that's okay. Mommy likes the alone time with her. Her favorite activity is talking and her nickname is Chatty Cathy. She loves to interact, and smiles constantly!

Ivy: Two Months-ish

More like 2 months and 12 days, but who's counting?

Ivy is a sweetie. She loves to be cuddled. She loves to nap with Mommy. She loves to coo and chat. She is a source of contention between her siblings. In a good way, of course. There is a lot of arguing about who gets to hold her. At her check-up she weighed 10lbs, 5ozs.

Super Sick Super Bowl Weekend

'Tis the season to be sick! We're on day nine of quarantine at the Pennington house. We had a nice quiet weekend watching movies and the Super Bowl on Sunday afternoon . Yeah Packers!

Ivy: Started with a dry cough on Wednesday. She was coughing constantly, so Friday we took her to see Dr. Jones. He said to watch her carefully for breathing problems and sure enough, by Saturday she was having pretty severe chest retractions. Sunday morning, after being up at night with her 3 nights in a row I took her to the ER. She was having a lot of trouble breathing. They tested her for RSV, which returned positive. After a nebulizer treatment we were able to come home. She's been doing better since then.

Here she is sitting up in her car seat so her chest doesn't get congested.

Elle: Caught the flu at the doctor's office when we took Ivy in. Poor girl. Throwing up and miserable for 4 days. Here she is "enjoying" the Super Bowl

Grant: Sick with a cough on Thursday, and then the flu yesterday. Here he is with a piece of toast that he threw up shortly after I took this photo.

We're just waiting around to see who else catches it here...

One month already?!

She is such a joy!

Our good and perfect gift

She's finally here!

Her name is Ivy Lora Pennington and she arrived at 11:33 am on Tuesday, November 30th, 2010
She weighed 8lbs. 1oz. and was 21 inches long. She is BEAUTIFUL!





Sunday evening I started having 'real' contractions, half an hour apart. Monday morning I already had an appointment with the midwife and a non-stress test scheduled since I was technically past my due date(Nov. 21st). Baby looked great and I told the nurses that we would probably be back that night or the next day. We decided to do some walking that evening and have a fun family date night so we took the kids out to eat, shopped at Bass Pro Shop, and walked around the mall. The walking worked...by the time we got home the contractions were 15 minutes apart. Right after we got the kids in bed I decided that they should probably go to Grandma and Grandpa's house, so we woke them all up, bundled them back up, put them in the car and Aaron dropped them off at Mom and Dad's. The contractions continued all night, but never got any closer together than 8-12 minutes. This was not unusual for me and I figured we might be getting close, so around 8:30am we ended up at the Bellevue Medical Center. Sure enough, I was definitely in labor :) Baby arrived 3 hours later!
We named her Ivy Lora. Her middle name is in honor of Aaron's Grandma Lora Pennington.

We are so abundantly blessed beyond any reason. The Lord has been so amazingly gracious to us and we give Him all the glory. Every good and perfect gift comes from above, from the Father of Light, in Whom there is no shadow.

Ivy is our good and perfect gift this year.

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