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Molly Yeates

March 26th, 2008

Born at 9:04 am

8lbs. 19 in.

She is so sweet and perfect, we can't get enough of her. Ethan likes to tickle her and laughs at all her funny noises, Scott just wants to hold her all day, and I just love everything about her.

Here She Is!

Match Day..... Round TWO

Today was the big match day!!! And Riverside Hospital, right here in C-bus is where we matched. YEAH!!!! Kind of a bit anti-climatic for us (since we were the lucky ones who found out two months ago where we are going for residency) but still exciting. We still got to be included in all the fun festivities and celebrations though because we matched for our transitional year today. At Ohio St they have a big assembly where they give all the med students an envelope containing their fate for the next 4 years and they make everyone wait to open them all at the same time. I was actually more excited to hear where all of our friends were going since we had a pretty good idea we would be sticking around here for this next year. I am so happy and excited for everyone that matched! Congratulations to all!

As happy and exciting as today was for everyone, it is also a bit sad. Over these last four years we have been fortunate to have so many wonderful friends and I am going to be very sad when everyone moves away. We have had such a great time out here all through med school and it is strange to think that it's almost over. We are really going to miss everyone!!! (Luckily a few of our friends matched in Columbus so we don't have to say goodbye to everyone just yet.)

Okay, this is a really random picture but it is too funny not to post. After we got home from all the parties today the sun was still shinning and it was like 45 deg!!! Which in the words of Jessica Olsen, "40 is the new 80" (at least for us northerners that have had a long winter.)
Anyways it was pretty nice out so of course we had to play outside and this is the outfit that Ethan came up with, all by himself. He found those awesome glasses earlier in the day and would not take them off. He loves that they are heart shaped and rockin' one lens. I just couldn't stop laughing at how funny he looked in them.

GREEN

In Celebration of St. Patrick's Day we had a GREEN breakfast this morning. My dad would always make us a green breakfast on St. Patrick's Day and I really liked it when I was a kid, so I thought I would carry on the tradition. We had green eggs, green waffles, and even green milk. Ethan helped of course and he really liked turning the waffles green. I don't think he fully understood the concept though, because when it came time to color the eggs he wanted them to be blue and he really wanted the milk to be purple AND red! (is that possible?) But once it was all done and he was eating it there were no more complaints about color. I learned that for a 2 year old everything tastes better when it's green. For the rest of the day he has been asking me to turn all his food green and he now only wants green milk. In order to conserve my food coloring I was able to successfully convince him that white milk is still yummy. It was really fun and apparently we have a new tradition that we will have to do every year in celebration of St. Patrick's Day.

I have the best friends!!!!!!

I seriously have the best friends!!!!!!! Today my friends had a baby shower for me and it was so fun. I got so many cute, fun girl outfits and accessories that I am even more excited to have a girl now. We have never had so much pink at our house and I can't wait to get her all dressed up. I didn't think that I would get so excited about girl stuff but it really is more fun than the boy stuff. Thank you so much to everyone that came and especially those that planned it, I really appreciate it. Oh and not to leave anyone out... to all my out of state friends (you all know who you are) I love you girls too.

Stubborn must run in the family

Okay so Scott and are are trying to decide who carries the stubborn gene (most likely me) because we now have not only one stubborn child but will soon have TWO! Don't get me wrong Ethan is a very sweet, nice boy and I love him to pieces, but there is no denying he's got a stubborn streak and apparently his unborn sister has decided to follow in his footsteps.

On wed we found out that the baby was sitting breach so today we went to the hospital to try and have her flipped. I was told that it would be really painful so I mentally prepared for the worst. I'm glad I did because it's really not that bad, more uncomfortable than painful. There was a Doctor and a resident, one on each side. One took the head and the other took the butt and they basically pushed as hard as they could on the outside of my stomach to try and turn the baby. Think of it as like really deep tissue massage for your stomach. Anyways they tried three times to push her around into a head down position. They actually were able to turn the head all the way around to where it should be but unfortunately they couldn't get her to move the other half of her body. So she was basically being folded in half and wouldn't move her butt. It was frustrating because they were so close to successfully flipping her but she was just too stubborn to move her butt.

So now I have to have a c-section which I'm not thrilled about! But at least I have a week or so to get used to the idea. It really is not the c-section itself that I'm worried about, it's more the fact that I have to have one and don't have any say in the matter. I'm sure when the day comes it won't be a big deal, it's just not how I planned things and that is always frustrating to me. Anyways the good news is that both baby and I are very healthy and that is really all that matters. But everyone say a little prayer that she will decide to flip on her own during the next week.

Who says you have to be in Utah to go sledding?

Ohio is not exactly known for it's slopes, mainly because we don't have any. So with all the snow(20 inches) and all the extra time we had this weekend the neighbors decided to make a sledding ramp for the kids. It was the perfect size and actually pretty fast so the kids loved it! Ethan kept saying "I wanna go fast." We spent hours riding our man-made "mountain" it was so much fun. I'm sure it will get plenty of use tomorrow as well.

Snowed in

Well today is my b-day. That's right the big 26, and for my present we got completely snowed in!!! This is March people. I am in desperate need of spring. On Thursday it was actually pretty nice and we even played outside for a couple of hours but it was all a big tease because the snow started falling Friday morning and didn't stop until around 5:00 this evening. This is a first for me, I have never been snowed in before, they even canceled church for tomorrow. Normally I wouldn't really complain about that, but for us it just means another day sitting around our house with nothing to do. At least today we got out and played a bit in the snow, which Ethan liked, but we literally have nothing to do. Hopefully mother nature just wanted winter to go out with a bang and this is the last of it? I am keeping my fingers crossed. As for the b-day plans, my hot date that I was really looking forward to has been put on hold. But my boys were very sweet and made me a delicious cake which I greatly appreciated.

Putting my belly to good use.....

Ethan has finally realized that my huge belly actually serves a purpose other than his baby sister, it is also a race track! Let's just say that once this new found track was discovered it has provided HOURS of fun (can you tell it's winter.) He now insists that I sit on the couch so the he can race his cars down the "mountain". Too bad for him in a few week it will HOPEFULLY be gone,
RIGHT????