It pays to be named Amy: Baby Pool Winners!

I guess the trick to win­ning the baby pool was to be named Amy!  I’m happy to announce the win­ners of our Lema­niak Baby Pool!  We col­lected $65 in the entries, so each of the pay­outs will be $32.50!

For the clos­est date and time guess, Amy C (a co-worker of mine) won with the only guess on March 14th at 3:15 pm.  I find it pretty strange that she was exactly off by 12 hours too, nice job Amy!!

For the clos­est weight and length, Amy L (my sister-in-law) won with the clos­est guess of 7 lbs, 3 oz. (birth weight was 7 lbs 1 oz) and with the length of 18.3″.  Con­grats, Amy!

Thanks for play­ing every­one, it was a lot of fun to see all of the dif­fer­ent guesses that came in!

Bailey Marie Lemaniak is Here!

Tonight will mark one week since I went in to labor and had our lit­tle girl. I feel bad that I haven’t had a chance to post ANYTHING on here yet about it, but I’m sure you all understand.

Our sweet Bai­ley Marie arrive very early Sat­ur­day morn­ing at 3:15 am. She weighed 7 lbs and 1 oz and was 19 1/4″ long. We are all get­ting set­tled in at home and I’m going to be writ­ing up my birth story here shortly. But first, here are some pho­tos from her arrival that I wanted to share.

The 3 of us after deliv­ery.

Our sweet girl!

She looks pretty much exactly like her big brother, just a more petite ver­sion!

Cute lit­tle baby feet

One VERY proud big brother

Daddy’s girl

More to come soon (I hope!)

Update: Baby Pool!!

Wow, it’s been so much fun to see all of the guesses that have come in for the baby pool. It’s not too late to get in on the fun! If you’d like to join in, go here to fill out the form. You can pay your entry either via Pay­Pal by send­ing your pay­ment to amylemaniak@gmail.com or by giv­ing us the money the next time we see you (which will hope­fully be very soon!) If you’re not up for gam­bling, you can still get in on the fun of guess­ing, you just won’t be eli­gi­ble to win the $$$$ if you’re the clos­est! Right now we have 17 guesses in the run­ning and they are rang­ing from those that love me (and guessed in the next few days) to those that want me to suf­fer (and guessed into late next week). Also, every­one was kind enough to not guess that I was going to have some sort of ginor­mous baby (hope­fully that will end up being the case!).

We’re going to close the pool at mid­night on Thurs­day, March 12th. I have a doctor’s appoint­ment the next day which will likely have a major update asso­ci­ated with it, so it’s only fair to close it before then. After it’s closed, I’ll put up the results so we can all sit and watch and wait to see who the two big win­ners will be!

Baby Update and Other Ramblings

So, here’s a brief update on Miss Bai­ley. I had my 39 week appoint­ment yes­ter­day and let’s just say (I don’t want to gross you all out too much) that I’m to the point of “pro­gres­sion” that when I was like this with Ty, I was well into labor and in the hos­pi­tal. The good news about that is, I have less work to do once I do go into labor and that means it “should” be that much shorter! Yay!

I have one more week left at work, next Fri­day is my last “planned” day. My next Dr.‘s appt is next Fri­day, when I will be 2 days shy of my due date. My awe­some Dr. did say that if I made it that far, then we would pick an induc­tion date a few days into the fol­low­ing week, so some­where around the 16th through the 18th. I’m just REALLY happy to have an end in sight. That at least in the next week and a half, we WILL have this baby here!

I’ve pretty much con­vinced myself that it will come down to an induc­tion, but my Dr. seems to think that I’ll go on my own before my next appoint­ment, so stay close, it could be any time now. I’m hav­ing a lot of con­trac­tions, but they really aren’t amount­ing to much of a pat­tern or pain, so until they do, we can’t get too excited.

I hon­estly wouldn’t mind if she waits a few more days any­way. Ty had a nasty cold all of last week­end and sur­prise, sur­prise, guess who got it! So, I’m con­gested as all get out and feel like crap. And frankly, I can’t even imag­ine how mis­er­able labor would be feel­ing like this, so I’m happy for her to hold off a while longer.

So, that’s about it for now. When the time does come, I’ll prob­a­bly be able to update eas­i­est through Twit­ter which feeds to Face­book, so check there for updates!

Of course no post would be com­plete with­out a photo or two, so here are some that Ty let me take last week­end. I was prac­tic­ing after my last pho­tog­ra­phy class last week and play­ing with my new reflec­tor I got. I really tried to get good focus on his eyes and make sure they were nice and sharp, I was pretty happy with how these turned out (despite the fact he was really unco­op­er­a­tive and in his jam­mies, but you take what you can get, right?!)

 

 

Baby Shower!

My fab­u­lous friend, Sally, hosted a baby shower a cou­ple of week­ends ago for me. It was small and inti­mate and so much fun! We really didn’t need too many things this time around, but I some­how got lucky enough to get all of the things I really wanted to get for this baby, so thanks everyone!!

Here are a few pics. My sis­ter took them, and maybe I should bring her with me to the pho­tog­ra­phy work­shop I’m going to in June! LOL

New bath­tub, it’s so adorable and I can’t wait to use it. My aunt Karla wrapped it in this adorable towel with the pink feather boas! Too cute!

New crib acquar­ium. We LOVED this thing when Ty was a baby, he would play with it for quite a while after he’d wake up in the morn­ing, which meant a few more min­utes of shut eye for us!

SO excited to use the Bjorn this time around. We had a cheapie car­rier with Ty and used it quite a bit, so I know this one will get even more use and it’s SO COMFY!!

“If Mommy Says No…Ask Grandma” one­sie from my mom.

My mother in law cro­cheted some GORGEOUS stuff for her. Here are some booties that were part of a lit­tle set. I can’t wait to put her in it!


Another gor­geous cro­cheted ensem­ble from Bev!

This is kind of funny. In Jan­u­ary, my mom and sis­ter and I went to Babies R Us to get all the things I needed for this time around. She got me my dia­per bag that I wanted and said it was for my shower. Except, she wasn’t going to let me have it until then! Well, of course I was not about to let that fly because I really wanted to get it packed and ready to go for the hos­pi­tal. So I promised her I would bring it when I had my shower to show every­one so she didn’t look cheap.

Thanks again for com­ing ladies. I had a blast and you all are so very generous!