Violet June Seaton...
born at home at 12:02am on April 30th
8lb 9oz 21in
and right on time!!!...I read that only 4-5% of baby's are actually born on their due date! and she made it by 2 minutes!!....much more details and pictures to come soon!
Well...we are 4 days away from my (ultrasound given) due date (april 30th)....we really kinda thought with this being #2 that she might come a bit earlier....and although the week is still young....im thinking my body likes to fully cook our babies....and although im super uncomfortable...and barley feel like i can move....i feel very blessed that my body does its job well ;) I am much less naive this time and know that she is much easier to take care of inside;) that being said...jake and i are so anxious for this experience...even though she is our second...she is going to be our first homebirth and we are both so excited for how things are going to be different this time!! the midwives we are using have just been so amazing and so knowledgeable....i am blown away at every visit! if you are at all interested check them out here....
my mom was able to go to my 38 week appointment with me and got a few photos from her phone...as you can see piper is a huge help!
Please keep us in your thoughts and prayers over the next week or so for a beautiful, safe...and short ;) labor and delivery and a beautiful and healthy little girl!!....we are so excited to add another sweet child of God to our family!!!
Jesus gave it all, all to Him I owe. Sin had left a crimson stain, He washed it white as snow! O praise the One who paid my debt and raised this life up from the dead!
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ohhhhhh i am so looking forward to matching dresses next year!!! :)
wow wow wow!! i am still in total shock!! last Thursday at our "normal weekly playgroup" piper and i walked into a HUGE surprise!!.... a "baby sister" baby shower!!!! it was my very first surprise party ever!! these amazing girls really pulled it off! a beautiful table....yummy food....gifts....and of course our usual mommy chat :) It was such an amazing morning...i was honestly in tears the rest of the day every time i would think of the friendship i have found in these girls!
baby sister was blessed with so many sweet gifts...
the "after party" ;)...
32 weeks with Piper....
32 weeks with baby sister....
I'm actually starting to think i may be a wee bit smaller (maybe its wishful thinking ;)....but obviously more stretch marks....and apparently i was much more prepared at 32 weeks with pipe.....i already had the co-sleeper out and set up!!! We still have not pulled out all the baby stuff from the garage....but that is changing this weekend!!! I am LOVING our new midwife and am SO happy that we will be having this baby at home!
20 months....piper, are you kidding me?!....why are you growing up so fast....stop it...right now....i mean it!!
although its an old picture (im about 25 weeks pregnant with piper here!!)...its one of my favorites! I love you mommy....i love seeing you happy....HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!
I feel like piper has gone through so many "big girl" changes lately! there were a few things that i wanted to "try" to "help" piper change before baby sister got here...but im obviously not the kind of parent who "forces" any kind of behavior that she is not ready for....so first thing was the habit of waking up between 2am and 5am every morning...i didnt mind it when she would join us in our bed at that time and fall right back to sleep till 8am....but that was starting to not happen anymore....she would join us in bed and just waller around on us and NO ONE would go back to sleep which does not fly with me!!! So for like 2 nights we let her fuss when she woke up...and to our surprise she was back to sleep within 5 to 10 minutes!!! and ever since she sleeps in her crib from 8pm-7:30ish!!! we should have tried that months ago!!!
next was her paci....I wasnt in a huge rush for this one...but i thought why not at least try....so a couple of days ago i just decided to try to cut down to only...sleep times, car rides, and church nursery....It was so easy!!!! she has only asked for it a few times and i would tell her "we get paci at nap time" and she would move on!!! and she hasent even asked for it in the car in days!!! so its official we are down to only sleep times and church nursery...not sure when we will work on those, they will be a bit tougher to give up :(
next was the most ambitious one of all....POTTY LEARNING! thats right...we thought we would give it a shot....this one....not so successful ;) she has all the signs that she is ready...obsessed with the potty...very interested when I go potty, announces when she is going "pee pee" or "poo poo"...stays pretty dry for long peiords of time....so i thought this would be such an easy one...so early this week we went to the store...she sat on a few different potties, and we found one that she loved and seemed really comfortable on...we got really cute little undies (tip for you moms out there...dollar general has GREAT deals on toddler undies...for the same price as the cheesy "character" undies at walmart, target or babies r us...we got double the amount of undies and they are MUCH cuter!!)....anyway for one whole day she wore either her undies or was bare bottomed and guess what....she HATED it!! she looked so uncomfortable on her potty she would cry when she sat down on it (but she loves to sit on it with her clothes on! so weird!)....and when she needed to go she would say "pee pee...diaper" and walk strait to the drawer with all her diapers....she went a couple of times in the potty...but practically cried through it both times! we decided it was SOOOO not worth it right now so we will give it a few weeks and maybe try again :)
I just love this sweet girl so much and am so very proud of her!!.... 
Its official....i pretty much weigh myself every morning and i hit 10 pounds this morning....which is actually pretty good....but every girl out there knows....it doesnt matter what the scale says...i still feel huge! Baby sister really doest move much. I feel her just a few times a day, and try to savor it!! I still cant believe that we are just about 10 weeks away....and we have done nothing! im not kidding...we havent bought one baby idem, pulled anything out from the garage (baby swing, co-sleeper, bumbo,clothes ect.) and i have hardly thought about, let alone "prepare" for this labor!!! aaaaaaaa!!! ok, i am officially overwhelmed! i do however daydream all day long, wondering how she will be similar to piper...how she will be different....how they will play with their "babies" together....how they will be friends, and at times im sure get on each others nerves...i wonder if she will follow piper around and want to do EVERYTHING she is doing ;) I CANT WAIT!!!!
28 weeks along with piper....
28 weeks along with baby sister....
bigger? smaller? cant really tell....looks pretty similar to me :)
we had pipers 18 month appointment today....she cried the whole time...like normal....but she is perfectly healthy! 22lb and 31in tall....Dr. Grim and i talked about her "screaming for attention" according her her i have been doing the right thing by ignoring it and keeping a calm tone....she totally encouraged my desire to try to potty train....we might be going to buy a potty tomorrow! and we discussed possibly starting a vaccine schedule at her 2 year appointment....i have never really mentioned it....but we have not done any vacancies yet....but i was never convinced that we would never do them...i just knew i wanted to wait until she was 2ish....so i have the next 6 months to figure out what we should do....time to dust off dr.sears vaccine book :)
here's pipe with her daddy playing their "tars"....LOVE THIS...
little miss beanie is a little over a pound now and is the size of an ear of corn (that is really funny to me;) her heartbeat sounded good at our last appointment and she was laying sideways :) she is finally starting to make her presents known a bit more....i just remember piper moving a lot more then this?? hummm a sign of their different personality's?...who knows!
ITS ANOTHER GIRL!!!!!!!!
this is my favorite....her skinny little legs all stretched out...
sweet profile...
*explanation: we had every intention to "wait to find out" with this baby like we did with Piper, and had even "announced to the world (and family)" that we were "waiting"....then came the morning of December 3, the day of our ultrasound...and i woke up with an overwhelming desire to NEED to know....i convinced Jake on our way there....and what did we find?!.....ANOTHER GIRL!!!! We were both overwelmed with tearful laughter and joy!! not to mention complete shock!
So on our way home we decided since everyone thinks we are "waiting to find out"....lets just keep going along with that (and ummm...lie;) until Christmas and SURPRISE everyone!!!! This Christmas has been so much fun getting to shock everyone with this wonderful surprise!!!
So...we are sorry to everyone who we had to "stretch the truth" (ok...lie) too.....family, my playgroup, church friends, and anyone else! we have prayed about it and been forgiven ;).....I hope you can forgive us too....it was all in the name of a Christmas Surprise! :)
(videos of us telling out family to come....)
