Just a picture of Millie having tummy time. As you can see she wasn't working too hard! She was quite relaxed on her tummy. Sweet, sweet girl!!!
OK, this is a milestone! Lizzie actually showed Millie some affection today! No hitting or pushing, just kisses! It was good for this mama's heart! I am well aware that by afternoon she may be hitting her again but you take what you can get. Millie will be 3 weeks old tomorrow and this is the first affection Lizzie has shown her. I can't blame her, Millie has envaded her life! On Monday I noticed Lizzie taking care of a baby doll and she would say hey (in a deep southern accent-not sure where she could have picked that up from!) I had to throw that in for all our TX friends. I just might make Lizzie an Alabamian afterall!!! So when I saw her taking care of the baby I thought OK maybe that is a step and it was. Stay tuned because I am sure there will be a later posting which reads Lizzie harms Millie. HA!!
Some video of Millie! They are all very similar but I am videoing with my camera and it will only allow me to video a small amount at one time. Oh, and the clicking in the background is Aaron typing. He started back to school last Thursday. :( I have to remind myself that is why we are here!!! I get used to him being out of school and then it is hard when he is back in. He loves it though (not the workload necessarily) but what he learns. Enjoy the video!
This is Lizzie's hair when she gets out of the tub. Very indicative of her personality-WILD!!!
Millie's cord fell off and so here she is in the tub! I love when you can finally soak them in water! She loves a bath. 
One of our biggest challenges is spending quality time with each of our children or even spending time with two at a time. So, last night after Lizzie went to bed and Millie was napping (AKA gearing up to stay awake during the night!) A took Elleigh and Sallie to get milkshakes and they came back and we sat on the front porch and drank them. It is amazing how much more attention you can give them when it is not all of them! Once we finished our shakes Ell decided to get a jump on one of her chores and water the flowers. Well you can only imagine what happened when the water hose came out. Soon enough we had the sprinkler out and Ell and Sallie were having a blast! Just water but SO much fun to them at the time and to us to enjoy watching them. After their splash, Elleigh even invited Sallie to sleep with her. They went to sleep at 2 am! Sallie and Elleigh getting along is definately a Kodak moment!!! 
Elleigh attended a Birthday/High School Musical 2 Premier Party on Friday night. She went dressed as her favorite character Sharpay. She had so much fun. She has been waiting anxiously for the premier and then to get to watch it with her friends and dress up it was great! Thanks Nonnie and Aunt Rhonda for helping me get my outfit together while you were here! 
I have to say yesterday was a not so good day. Aaron went back to work, I had a Dr's appt so getting out the door for that was a challenge, everyone needed me at the same time, Millie was up all night and bottom line I was as tired as I think I have ever been with no relief in site. My Dr told me I had to get some rest immediately which further frustrated me because how is that supposed to happen. Just a bad day! I guess the excitement of the past week and very little sleep had caught up with me. Bless her sweet heart, Millie slept so much better last night. Tonight may be a different story but you take what you get! So after a few hours of sleep I was feeling much better. Nursing is quite a challenge with Millie still being sleepy a lot and Lizzie hanging on me wanting me to pick her up. But the middle of the night feedings despite my sleepiness are such a sweet time. It feels like no one else in the world but me and Millie even with A laying there right next to us sleeping. I think with having 3 other children you long for those one on one times because they don't come very often. It takes about an hour to get her fed because she wants to snooze in between. We are working on shortening that time but for now that is as good as it gets for me to get in her what she needs. So, we get some bonding time. All of this to say sometime during the night, I guess from 1-2 I had some time to look in that sweet face and reflect on all the things I have to be thankful for despite the bad day I had. I try my best to focus on the good when things seem so bad but in the busyness of life that is often difficult but early this morning as I looked at our latest little blessing God really used that time for me to dwell on what I have to be thankful for. I decided to write them down just to re-inforce my thoughts.
We are home and trying to settle in with our newest addition. Right now Mother, Connie, Rhonda, Elleigh, and Sallie are out doing some shopping and Lizzie, Aaron, and Millie are asleep so I am taking a moment to update and reflect. Millie is WONDERFUL! With each child it is amazing to me how you fall in love all over again in a whole new way! We are so blessed! I have heard lots of request for "the birth story" so here it goes. We arrive at the hospital at 7:30 on Thursday morning and I climb in to bed to wait and wait and wait some more. Those of you who know me well know that my veins are horrible. So after many attempts they finally get an IV in me and the pitocin going about 9:30. Dr. Alexis checks me and says I have not dilated an more than I had on Tuesday but that I was about 75% effaced which was music to my ears. However, as I suspected we were still in for a long day. Around lunch she came in and checked me again and still no progress. She broke my water and said that should speed things right along and it did somewhat and at 4:00 they check me again and I am at a 3. We know from experience that I am very slow getting to a 5 and then I usually take off from there. By 5:30 they have me on the highest dose of pitocin and I am hurting pretty bad. I kept trying to wait on my epidural because I did not want it to slow down the contractions. So, the nurse comes in and asks am I ready for it and said she had another patient wanting hers and was trying to decide who to do first and told me that the other lady was crying so I said go give her hers and then come back to me. At 5:45 I told her I had to have it ASAP. About 15 min later a nurse comes in and says we are not sure you can have an epidural because your platelets are low and we are afraid you will not clot so we are sending someone in to do a bleed out to see how quickly you clot and if you clot within 7 min you can have it and if not you can't. They come in and do the bleedout and I clot in 6 min which was a relief but at the same time I knew the risks of not clotting and Aaron and I both were unsure but I was hurting so bad I was willing to take the risks of dying, afterall I thought I was going to die from labor. I will spare you all the details Aaron has of the things I did and said while "dying" as I thought. Maybe it will be fun to allow him to blog on that! So, I wait and I wait some more and I hurt much worse with each contraction. Usually I will take something through my IV to take the edge of the pain before getting an epidural but I was adimant that I was not doing that this time because it makes me groggy so I had had NOTHING! At 7:20 the nurse and anasthesiologist walk in to give me my epidural. I sat up and I asked the nurse if she could check me real quick to see where I was and she did and she said you are at a 5. I was so disappointed. I thought surely I am not hurting this bad at a 5. Little did I know Millie was making her way! I bend over for the Dr to put the needle in and he gets it in but does not hit correctly and I begin to have a contraction and he pulls it out and then re-sticks still not hitting and I have another contraction and then another immediately following. He still has the needle in trying to get it in the right place and all of a sudden I have the most incredible urge to push and the nurse recognized that this contraction was different and she says are you trying to push and I said yes, this baby is here and she said please get back on the bed because I do not want her in the floor so I climb to the side of the bed and am curled up and she checks real quick and says you are crowning, try to hold her in, I am calling Dr. Alexis. I roll over to where I am flat on my back and Aaron said he looked and the head and shoulders were out. The nurse screams I need help I am having a baby in here and about that time I push again and she catches! Incredible! Rochelle was the nurses name and she is the one in the first pic that Aaron posted with the blue smock with dragonflies on it. She is yelling get the nursery, it was like something on ER. The picture that Aaron posted with Dr. Alexis in it holding scissors in her hand and me in stirrups with the spotlight on is very misleading. She had then made it in to do repairs. There was no time for equipment for Miss Millie!!! Dr. Alexis walks in and says I waited on you all day and you couldn't wait on me to get here! God is so good! I truly believe he spared me from getting that epidural in order to protect me from something. I know it! I had told Aaron that I told God I knew he didn't design me to labor quickly but that I would be great with 10 hours which was 2 less than Lizzie and just how long I thought it would take-my labor was 10 hours! Praise Him Millie is healthy. No issues with her glucose levels. She is great! She nurses great. However, we are having to supplement with a dropper until I get enough to feed her. She is a natural though. The biggest issue with that is she definatly has her days and nights mixed up. She is awake and wanting to eat all night and wants to sleep all day. Not stressing over that-we will get that all straight eventually. Elleigh loves her and is helping take care of her. Sallie is just the more the merrier. She was so excited when we brought her home. In TX they don't mess around. You have a baby and get out of there. So, we were headed home Fri afternoon less than 24 hours after delivery. Sallie woke up Sat morning and could not breathe. Scared us to death. She was wheezing, etc. A took her on to the Dr and she has some type of upper respiratory thing called sliders and he said her lungs were swollen and not allowing congestion to come through. So, she is on prednisone which has wired her to say the least (like she needed that!) but thankfully she is much better. Lizzie, what can I say about Lizzie. She is not exactly thrilled with her new sister. It is a big adjustment for her and with 4 teeth coming in and being all off schedule it is a full time job to see about Lizzie. Everyone leaves on Tues and I am not sure how I am going to make all this happen. I am thinking we may never get bathed or fresh clothes on! It has been such a help for my family to be here. We are very thankful for a family who is willing to come and not only share in this special time with us but HELP and we need it! Thanks so much to all our friends who have been so great to call and come by and bringing us goodies, etc. It is times like this when I am overwhelmed by the wonderful people God has placed in our path, both at home and here and everywhere! We love you all! Now more pics!!!
We decided it was best for Ell to have her own space (for now). She has been begging to paint her room hot pink and here ya go-it is HOT PINK!!!
These are pictures of Sallie, Lizzie, and Millie's room. 3 GIRLS, 1 ROOM! There was a time when I would have said no way, but it is a great feeling at the end of a day to go in and those sweet angels all be sleeping in one room! SWEET!!! Of course I have to add that it is not so sweet when they are all entertaining each other instead of going to sleep. Making memories! The room is jam packed so there are several pictures with different views to give you an idea.