My Belly Buddies

Today I got to reunite with my belly buddies at MOPs and meet their new little bundles of joy. It was the first time we were all at a meeting since we delivered. Pictured above are Karen with her son Wesley born December 28, Pam with her little guy Ryel born December 23, and me with Evie born January 9. Evie just loves her new friends and I am so blessed by these wonderful woman in my life. :)

Evie Smiles

Here is our little princess smiling in her dreams on Tuesday, January 26. So precious!

Giving kisses!

Two Weeks Old

We had Evie's two week doctor's appointment today with her primary care doctor, Dr. Doan. It was great to see him. He congratulated us on our new little girl and thought Evie was just perfect.

At the appointment we found out she had gained a great amount of weight. A 14 oz. increase to be exact since her last visit, an ounce a day (the doctor said this is what they like to see). She currently weighs. 7 lbs. 1.5 oz. We are thrilled! Here is a picture of Evie and Jim with the scale.

She was amazing at the appointment and Dr. Doan thought everything was going great. He did help us to clear her nasal passage. She was getting a lot of mucous collection, which Jim and I were thinking somehow she caught a cold. However, it was actually just the mucous that she was born with and is now trying to exit her body. Now Jim and I know how to fix this too. He also gave us some other great pointers on how to calm her and position her to breath even better. He is a wonderful doctor and so helpful. We always enjoy our visits with him and appreciate his tips. Thanks so much Dr. Doan! :) Here are Evie and I after the visit about to leave the office.

First time eating at a restaurant

So we took our maiden voyage on Saturday, January 23 to have our first restaurant expereince. We ate out for lunch at La Bou. Evie did fabulous, slept the whole time.

Evan on the other hand didn't eat so hot and was kind of a grump. :) Gotta love it!

Evan and his babies...his Cars

Don't you just love boys! Instead of baby dolls he is pushing his cars around, and to add to the fun our fabulous friend, Rachel, just gave Evan three new "Cars" characters on Friday, January 22. He now has The King, Chick Hicks and Mater to add to his collection. Thank you so much Rachel! As you can see he is loving them.

And yes, he is driving his cars on top of the trash can. He enjoys pushing them on any surface such as: window seals, tables, the floor, the couch, your legs, arms, etc. We love this little guy so much! He is just too much fun. Also, to update everyone, the Cars addiction continues. We have slowed down from watching it everyday. Thank goodness! But, if he could I think Evan would be thrilled if he could watch it all the time. Man, does Pixar/Disney know what they are doing or what?!? They sure got our son hooked! :)

Pictures of Evie

Here are some pictures of our little angel since her birth. Enjoy!

Deep thoughts...

Here first photo shot by Mommy (the first of many in her future).

Looking adorable and so tiny in her car seat.

Evan already helping out...too bad he can't really change her diaper. :) (He was secretly just sitting there playing with the wipes.) :)

We love this expression.

Looking so peaceful while she sleeps.

Looking so cute in her pink and green.

Our little strawberry.

Evan giving kisses.

Some of Evie's Firsts...

Evie has already been doing lots of fun things during her first two weeks of life.

Here she is in my parents bouncer seat for the first time. She sat there so good while we all ate dinner.

This was her first car ride with the whole family. We were headed to Great Grandma's house to visit.

Here first time in the swing. She seems to like it so far.

First official out of the house outing to Babies R Us. This was also her and Evan's first time in our new double stroller.

She did great; slept the whole time.

Evan wanted to get out of the stroller and run around. :)

First time in her new bouncer chair. She and Evan both have their own chairs now because Evan didn't like when she sat in his chair.

However, he also didn't like that she had a new chair and wanted to sit in it too. So for now we just switch her to whatever chair he doesn't want to sit in. Silly boy! :)

We are all having a blast with little Evie and look forward to many more firsts.

First Doctor's Visit

Our first big outing with Evie was to the doctor for her two day check up on January 12. We didn't see her regular doctor, but another Kaiser doctor, Dr. Hooten. She was really great. We will see her normal doctor at the two week check up.

Dr. Hooten was very happy with Evie's weight she went down to 6 lbs. 3 oz., which she thought was a normal decrease and was happy with her feeding. Evie also had a higher bilirubin rate at birth and we had to do another test on Tuesday before our appointment. The results came back still slightly high, but they thought she was in the clear. She just asked us to monitor her coloring. We haven't noticed any changes so I think she is good. Overall, Dr. Hooten thought Evie looked great and was pleased with how well she was doing. We go to the doctor again on Monday, January 25 so we will get another update then.

Here is Jim getting Evie ready for the doctor to look at her.

Here are me and Evie next to the scale that she was just weighed on.

After the appointment, Evie, dressed and ready to go home. :)

However, she was not to happy to have to get in her car seat to get there. :) The good news is that she stopped crying once we left the office.

The Fab Four!

Jim and I took a few pictures of our expanded family on Saturday. Here are each of us with the kidos.

Evan giving love...ohhhh...he loves to say this when he gives hugs. Simply adorable!

Then pictures of Jim and I with our new little princess.

We are so blessed!

The Labor Story

Here is the story of how little EVIE JOY KNIGHT came into the world on Saturday, January 9, 2010 at 12:41 p.m. We must acknowledge that the Lord has been present in all aspects of the arrival of our little blessing. He is so good!

This is a picture of Jim and I right before we left for the hospital. Grandma and Grandpa Thompson came over to stay with Evan.

Here is the last picture of Evie inside my tummy at almost exactly 40 weeks, the official due date was January 11, 2010.

To sum up the delivery of our daughter it was FAST. We had hoped to post some kind of update about how we checked into the hospital on Facebook or send text messages, but the first message we were able to get out was that she is here! :) This includes even letting my parents know who were watching Evan. Things went super quick once we arrived at the hospital.

We officially checked into the hospital at 9:55 a.m. and had her in less than 3 hours. So crazy! The funny thing is that we were kind of hanging around the house waiting to go in thinking it would probably take awhile like it did with Evan. We arrived at the hospital 4:00 a.m. with Evan and didn't have him until around 7:00 p.m. that evening. So wrong about her labor being similar - good thing we went in when we did.

Labor actually started at about 12:00 a.m., with consistent, close contractions at 5:00 a.m. We tried to get as much sleep as possible that night as we knew things were probably going to happen the next day. When we arrived at Kaiser I was between 4 and 5 centimeters and 90% effaced, and the contractions were lasting between 1 and 2 minutes taking place every 3 minutes. Good times! The plan was to get the epidural, which I did, but the best part is that right after I got it I had to push and she was ready to come out. So the epidural did not
start working until after she was already here and I was trying to hold and feed her. So funny! :)

The labor was so much different than with Evan, she came in 3 pushes, about 5 minutes. With Evan I pushed for 3 hours and he still needed a little vacuum and an episiotomy. :) The best part is I totally wasn't as sore as with Evan. Only needed on stitch. God is so good! He knew that I would need the strength and mobility to help care for both Evan and Evie. :)

The hospital was also great; Kaiser Roseville! :) We loved our nurses and doctors. The doctor that delivered us we actually just meet as Evie was coming out, since she came so fast, the previous doctor that examined me when we checked in was at lunch. Nevertheless, both were amazing and did a fantastic job!

My bother and sister-in-law visited us the night Evie was born and took this picture along with several of the other fabulous family pictures at the hospital. Thank you both so much!

Little Evie is such a blessing already. She was almost exactly Evan's same size, 6 lbs 8 oz, he was 6 lbs 10 oz and they both were 19 inches long. The big difference is she has some hair. :) Yippee, bring on the hair bows! :) The machine pictured below shows her birth weight.

Here she is getting her first bath and her hair combed by nurse Josie. She absolutely loved this part.

Here is a picture of me and my baby right after her bath. She is so beautiful.

Here is Jim in our labor room next to the board with all the fun stats of the event.

Our beautiful little girl. More of Debra's fabulous pictures while we were at the hospital.

Her little fingers

Tiny, delicate feet

Here we are in the postpartum room enjoying little Evie.

Our stay at the hospital was just a little over 24 hours. We checked out at about 2:30 p.m. It was nice to be going home so quickly and to get back to our little guy, Evan too. Plus, you can't get any real sleep in a hospital with the staff coming in and out so much. :)

Due to our short stay we only had a few visitors, Grandma and Grandpa Thompson. Who got us the adorable balloon and beautiful flowers.

and Uncle Rhett and Aunt Debra. :) Our fantastic photographers.

Here was our postpartum room right as we were about to check out.

Here is Evie in her car seat with her first real outfit on. She wasn't too happy to be unswaddled and put into this seat, but did calm down once we got to the car.

When we got home from the hospital Evan had just woken up from his nap. He initially was very excited to see Evie and couldn't wait for her to get out of the car seat. But, Evie started crying and then so did he. He slowly has been accepting her and loves giving her hugs and kisses. He still doesn't enjoy her crying very much and doesn't want her to sit in any of his seats (i.e. baby swing, bouncer chair, car seat). :)

To help Evan accept Evie more into the family she got him this cool fire truck with balls along with help from my parents. He loved it and thought she was pretty cool for thinking of him. :)

Evie's first day at home. She was fitting right in and loving resting in her new bassinet from good friends Rachel and Mike. Thanks so much guys! :)

I just want to thank you all again for your love, prayers and support. We can't wait for you to meet little Evie in the near future. Stay tuned for more pictures and updates of our family real soon. Love and blessings to all of you, Jim, Kim, Evan and Evie :)