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Amelia Grace Donley is here!!!!!!!!!!!!

Well, to all those who have been waiting for a while, we have a new post. This one is the one we have all been waiting for and that is the arrivalof Amelia Grace Donley! She was born May 20 at 12:27pm. She weighed 6lbs. 10oz. and was 20 1/2 inches long. Everything is going great and she is so wonderful. We are working on getting adjusted to having a newborn in the house and learning what to do. This is wher the true adventure begins and we are so excited about it. I apologize for slacking on the blog, but I'm going to do better now that Amelia is here and everyone wants to know how she is doing and see pictures. We look forward to sharing this adventure with you and hope you enjoy it as well.

Doctor Visit for Week 35

We are now into the phase where we go and see the doctor every week from here on out. This was the first visit in a while where they have actually done something besides take vitals on Christina. Now one thing I can say for myself is that I have been with Christina for every doctors appointment this far and boy can I say that this one was the most interesting of them all. This was the first time Christina had her cervix checked out. INTERESTING!!! I definatly felt a little akward at this point, but as a first of many to come, I just grinned and beared it. And boy did Christina come away after that one saying it was one of the most uncomfortable things she has had to go through. She was calling her mom and wondering why nobody gave her the heads up on how the cervix check was going to go. Enough about that, on to what the doctor determined from the cervix check. Christina is now 1cm dilated and 50% thinned out. For those of you who are like us who don't know what that means, it means this, we are on our way or should I say, Amelia, is on her way to the world not to long from now. The doctor was excited, we were excited, and now we just wait and see if Christina progresses any further when we go next week. We will keep you posted. Also, we hopefully get to tour the labor unit this Monday for our labor and delivery class. We will keep you posted on that as well. We love yall and will talk at you soon.

Labor and Delivery Class - Part 2

Well it wasn't as bad as what they made it out to be. The video was fine and I think I'm going to make it. If I can watch 4 women give birth, I think I'm going to make it through Christina's time. I wish I could have taken pictures of all of the guys in the class. The tense, uneasy look that they had. I do admit this was me at different times in the video. The teacher told all of the guys to eat a good meal and drink a coke to keep from passing out. When I tell you as all of the guys entered the room, they all had a coke in their hand. I tell you it is quite amazing to see the birth of a child. It's like, how do they get out of there. It's really neat to see the amazing process in which a baby is born. Next week we get to tour the labor and delivery part of the hospital. I can't wait for that. It'll be a lot of fun, more fun than watching other women give birth.

I'm also posting the most recent picture of Christina. This was taken at the beach and she is a little over 34 weeks in the picture. We go to the doctor on Friday for week 35 check-up. We will be sure to keep you posted on how things are going, until then hope you are having a good day. Talk to you soon.

April Showers Bring May Babies

Hello everyone. I know yall have been waiting for the next post. I apologize for the delay, but things have been busy with baby showers. We had awsome showers both at our church as well as Christina's home town shower. We recieved a lot of what we had registered for. We also had an abundance of gift cards to get some of the bigger items on the registry that we didn't get like stroller and ect. I don't know if people thought we were having triplets, but it seemed like that's how much clothes we got. Amelia has more clothes now then me and Christina combined. I want to be a baby again. Not really, just kidding. We definatly feel better prepared now for the baby after the two showers. The only thing we don't have that we need is a dresser/changer combo unit, but we ordered one today from JC Penny's. The only thing is that it is back ordered until the end of June. We're alright with that because that's the one we wanted, so we thought it would be better to wait then to settle with something else. We do want to say thank you to everyone reading who gave us a gift for the baby, without you we would be freaking out right now trying to figure out how we would get everything, so THANK YOU!!! You want to make sure you tune into the next post because we have labor and delivery class tonight and it's "movie" night. We'll see you next time.

Labor & Delivery - Class 1

Well, well, well. The first class of labor and delivery. To get us started we drive into the parking lot and there are 3 women who look like they need to be at the emergency room not the labor class with there pillows. Pillows? We didn't know about the pillows. We were the only ones without pillows. We didn't use them, so we got by with that one. So we get into the class and find out that everyone has laborphobia (the fear of labor). Not to mention one of the first things the instructor talks about is the video they will show next class and the man who passed out from it during the last session of the class. Oh great, there I am, the husband who will watch the video and pass out. At this moment you can see all the men in the room tense up and ask for an excuse slip for next class. Then as we are going around introducing ourselves we find out that there is one women who is due 4 weeks from tonight. Forget the video we might see the actual thing at class #4! Talk about passing out now. Then there was a women who is not due until June 7th, but she says the baby is ready to go now. That's fantastic, now we have 2 ladies who could go a t anytime. This is not what I signed up for. I just want to see Christina give labor. Really, the class was good and I think it will be good for us. We will definatly get educated about the labor and delivery classes. I mean if it takes me 4 weeks to figure out how this baby is going to come into the world, it's got to be good. Well, that's it for now, we'll talk to you soon.

Back from Youth Convention

We are back from Birmingham. We were there with the youth at Youth Convention, which is like church blended with a concert atmosphere. It was fun but we were ready to get home, at least Christina was. I never thought that my wife's feet could get so big. They swelled up Friday night during the service, so I was on the hunt for some water and trying to prop her feet up on my lap without the apperance of us being lovy dubby towards one another while being in a church service. We had a good time with the youth and it was good for them. SACRIFICE is what Christina would call it. She told me this was the last youth trip she was going on until she has the baby. Bless her heart she could never get comfortable plus she didn't sleep well at the hotel. Speaking of the hotel nothing is worse then when you come down to the breakfast area smelling biscuits and gravy and you get a biscuit, it's all warm on the outside, then you cut it open for the gravy to find out it's frozen in the middle. GROSS. So we had to settle for Burger King. Nothing like eating fastfood for 5 meals in a row. Amelia did not enjoy that. She continues to squirm around and what little room is left in the womb. Well it never stops for us, we are headed for our young marrieds tonight and then tomorrow will be our first labor and delivery class. YIPEE!!!
Talk to yall soon. - Matt