Aunt Anna and cousin Dana meet Sophia
Adrian’s oldest sister, Anna, and her daughter, Dana, drove from Wisconsin to meet Sophia over Mother’s Day weekend. They came bearing cute baby gifts and a wonderful Hearts at Home book for Corey’s first Mother’s Day. The Food Face Plate will make for funny meals. Sophia also got to meet her great grandmother Hensinger at her lake cottage.
Both sets of grandparents stopped by today to visit and bring meals. It is Grandma Forbes’ birthday. And Cody came home from his vacation with the Chauvin grandparents. Continue Reading…
Corey followed a strict regimen of brewing various herbs in tea form, especially throughout her third trimester. Many of the bulk herbs came from an Ann Arbor wholistic living store, called Indigo Forest. They included: red raspberry leaf, alfalfa, oat straw, red clover, nettle, rose hips and spearmint leaf. She referenced The Natural Pregnancy Book by Aviva Jill Romm, MD. Continue Reading…
Corey made a batch of sugar cookie cutouts as a special celebration in anticipation of Sophia’s arrival. She dubbed them one of her “early labor projects.” We took a tin full of cookies to the hospital for our visitors to enjoy. Continue Reading…
When we built our log home, we knew early on the colors for each room and planned the nursery colors accordingly. We love IKEA and chose to decorate and furnish with items from there. Continue Reading…
Sophia Margaux - ready to head home
On Wednesday, April 28, around 9:00-9:15pm, Corey started noticing some more consistent contractions. We didn’t know if they were Braxton Hicks like she had for many months prior. I wrote a quick web software application to keep track of their duration and length. After a couple hours of uncertainty and a bath at 11:00pm, Corey noticed they were definitely different (i.e. one’s you couldn’t sleep through). The times were 5-6min between and 60-75sec in length. Continue Reading…
Mr. Cody & Corey's very pregnant belly
We decided we should finally get a “belly shot” of Corey before it was too late and thought Mr. Cody would need to be included in the family shot. Cody posed well.
Little did we know our timing was great with labor starting just two nights after!