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Time to Fly

Bones — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 07:08:16 +0000

In 8 hours Andrea, Ainsley, and myself will be on our first family airplane trip to see my family for Thanksgiving. Preparing for a airplane trip takes on a whole new meaning when you have an infant to carry along with you. Of course, everyone will be Oooing and Ahhing over little miss Ainsley, even the TSA. Hopefully everything will go smooth. I’m sure we will have a great flight. I love our family.

Roll on over, Ainsley Jane.

Bones — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 01:47:12 +0000

Today Ainsley rolled over from her back to belly for the first time. She is also going from belly to back, although I think she’s done that before. Today I am a proud papa.

Size 3 Already?

Freckles — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 20:52:28 +0000

It becomes apparent after you wake up from the “zombie phase” (aka: first two months of being a new parent) that your baby is growing at rapid speed! Ainsley Jane Maciula Peters has impressed us with her keen ability to wow us daily! She is almost reciting the Constitution of the United States but not quite yet! When we had to buy the “next” size of diapers last week I got weepy. How was it that this baby girl of ours was in a size three diaper already? Didn’t I just have that spinal tap a few weeks ago? My look back at the past 20 some-odd weeks brought me to the conclusion that the saying is true, they DO grow like weeds! Now, we as parents must keep nurturing, not round up our little ones!

Ainsley will be six months old via the calendar on November 7th and she is an angel baby for sure! She is such a sweetheart to both of us and anyone that gives her a few minutes to warm up to. She is very alert, loves to tell stories (in baby-talk), is sitting up, rolling over, teething and her red hair is starting to grow back in! Chris and I are starting to get used to being parents but we still worry constantly about the small things that I think every first time parent does. I am loving being a stay-at-home mommy, I try and work as hard as I would at a desk job and I think I accomplish quite alot! Taking care of my husband and baby is a dream job and I am very blessed to get to do this. There for awhile, after I closed the daycare, I was going to go back to work, instead I am trying to make some income from home.

Currently, we are so blessed to have families that donate hand-me-downs for Ainsley & housing. It truly takes a village to raise a little one. I know now why some people go crazy with children and it’s probably because they had no help! Our families and friends are great, but my husband is the real reason why all of this is finally working so well. Chris helped me stick with breastfeeding Ainsley, he helped me get out of a bad business decision, he helped me recover from a hard pregnancy and c-section, and is helping me to become a wonderful mother. I am so joyful that he is my husband and he works so hard for all of us. His business is really taking off and someday our goal is to open an Apple Accessories/Computer Services/Retailer Store in Stillwater, OK preferably downtown!

Overall, I am estatic to be a mother and wife to the two most wonderful people in the world. Through the poop, the internet being slow, and dog barfing on my carpet God still brings blessings into our family and I thank him for that!

-Andrea Maciula Peters

Ainsley Jane – Week Two

Bones — Tue, 26 May 2009 02:40:44 +0000

On this Memorial day we remember all those who have served this great country. Without you we would never be able to have a family like this. Thank you.

Here is the photo gallery for Ainsley’s second week of life and freedom.

Project: Nursery

Bones — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 16:48:13 +0000

While working on Ainsley’s room I decided to document the progress by taking a series of photos. You can enjoy them on our photos page. Or click here to go directly to the gallery.

Ainsley's Room

Ultra Sound – Ainsley Jane

Bones — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 17:57:19 +0000

March 9th, 2009

Here is a quick photo of Miss Ainsley Jane’s cute little face. She looks like her mommy!

Belly Shots!

Bones — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 03:40:12 +0000

Andrea has finally let me take a few pics of her and Ainsley (inside the belly.) Will be posting some more on our photo gallery soon.

Kissing Ainsley

Update: The rest of the photos are now up on our photo page. Check them out.

Freckles Update: So yes, here she is 6 months in the making and I am feeling like I look. She is going to be a big baby and we knew that she probably would be since my mom gave birth to three big babies! I am so very excited and exhausted at the same time. Now we need to get our house prepared and I will feel much better!

Ultra Sound Video

Bones — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 17:50:00 +0000

Here is the recording of our Ultra Sound we had on Jan. 5th, 2009

Enjoy!

Listening to our child’s heart beat for the first time.

Chris — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 16:48:27 +0000

Andrea and I had our second doctor’s appointment today. We thought it was just going to be a standard pee in a cup and how you doing kind of meeting. I was just sitting there getting ready to fire up Twitterrific or maybe NetNewsWire on my iPhone when the doc busted out this little ugly box. Next thing I know I’m hearing my son or daughter’s heart beat for the first time. THEN I’m like oh crap I wanted to record this. Thankfully iTalk from Griffin Technologies was loaded and just a couple taps away from capturing this moment. Worked like a charm, although my first gen iPhone started giving the little device some of the usual interference. Next time I’ll know to throw it in airplane mode then record.

Anyways it worked out great. It transferred to my Mac super quick via Wi-Fi. Have a listen!

The Heart Beat

Our first Ultra Sound

Chris — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 14:56:19 +0000

Andrea and I have our first big doctor’s appointment today. We will get our ultra sound with pics.

I plan on recording the heart beat with iTalk on my iPhone.

You can get the play by play on Twitter.