Our Two Week Adventure

Well, I cannot believe it. Yesterday Reese celebrated her two week birthday. It has gone so quickly. In honor of her being two weeks, it was time to meet her pediatrician. We've used her with Bailey and love her but knew Reese might be less than thrilled with their first meeting. We were right. She was beyond mad. After the pediatrician, we planned to run a few errands thinking the experience would wear her out. It didn't. Instead, we were able to see just how well her lungs really worked. We tried feeding her in the car and rocking her but nothing worked. We finally just started for home. She finally gave up and cried herself to sleep because we were almost home and she was finally out. Grandma Frances and I took that opportunity to drive through Taco Bell for our "fix".


As for the pediatrician, she was very happy with how well Reese is doing. She is now 9 pounds, 12.8 ounces and still 21 1/2" long. Unfortunately, she also has her first cold thanks to big sister. It doesn't seem to bother her too much but it's hard to hear her cough. The doctor said it should only last about 7 - 10 days but that seems like such a long time in the life of someone who is only 14 days old. At least in all other respects she is healthy. We are so blessed in that regard.


Enjoy the pictures of her two week birthday. We'll write more later!

Reese Has Arrived

Ladies and Gentlemen, meet the newest member of the Sharp family....

Reese Leighanna Sharp made her debut on Wednesday, February 11 at 10:36 am. She weighed 9 pounds, 6 1/2 ounces and was 21 1/2 inches long. Big sister Bailey is loving being a big sister but having a little adjustment to not being totally doted on at all times. I think she is doing well despite telling me that "Babies are boring".

I realize that I am almost 2 weeks late in making this announcement but we have been a tad bit busy. Adjusting to being a mom of two while trying to recover from my c-section has kept me a little bit busy. I will try to provide more updates on a regular basis but for now, enjoy a few

pictures of our newest angel and her very proud big sister.

Reese's Debut

Well, I went to the doctor today and had made no progress. When doing the physical exam, my doctor could no longer feel if Reese had her head down. She requested an ultrasound for fear that she had turned. Sure enough, little Ms. Reese had done an acrobatic feat and turned sideways - getting herself stuck. It was clear the likelihood of her turning back would be next to impossible since she is so big.

So the decision was made to do a c-section tomorrow at 9:30 am. My doctor's fear was that with me being so close to 40 weeks, I would go into labor, Reese would still not have turned, and then it would turn into an emergency c-section (which anything with the word emergency in it is not a good thing).

I am not at all worried about the c-section. Too many of my friends have had them and all turned out fine. To say I was surprised would be more accurate. It was just a possibility I had not considered.

We'll be sure to provide an update once we get home for the hospital and are settled. For now, I'm off to get my last night of what will be uninterrupted sleep - at least for the next few months!

Updates, updates, updates

I just realized that I have not updated you on my test results. Shame on me! I think the excitement just took over my brain that I forgot to post how I did. But since I haven't done that, I think I will post a few updates.

First and foremost....I PASSED!!! I was playing on e-mail on Monday morning (2/2) when I hit refresh and there staring me in the face was an e-mail message with a subject of "Your ETS TExES Scores". I knew what it was but my fingers sort of froze and wouldn't let me open it for about 5 minutes. Once I finally got up the courage, I realized the scores were in a PDF attached to the e-mail. Once again, I was frozen until I finally opened the PDF. But did I look at the PDF after I opened it? No.....I just let it sit open in a new window until I finally willed myself to look at it. Boy was I thrilled when I did. I first saw the word "Passed" and then saw the score was 278/300. I almost fell over. All I need to pass was a 240 and I had been asking God for only a 240. I had no reason to be greedy. But to see I scored 38 more points. Awesome!!! I sure wasn't going to complain. The thing I was most excited about was that I only missed 3 questions on the Math section. Given that I am hoping to teach middle school math, it was nice to see I did very well on that section. Thanks again to all my prayer warriors and supporters. I know it helped!

Second....Baby Reese still is quite comfortable inside my big belly. Today I am 39 weeks and 1 day. I went to the doctor last Tuesday and had dilated almost 2 centimeters. I was measuring 40 weeks and Dr. Smith said that Reese was head down but she was still sitting high and had made no move to "drop". She also estimates that Reese is already about 8 pounds. So we are still waiting. I am enjoying resting and having some free time as I know that will quickly come to an end once Reese gets here. I go back to the doctor on Tuesday and will provide an update either Tuesday night or Wednesday morning.

Finally....Bailey has moved up to Pre-School 2. She was visiting the last week in January (which means spending half a day) and officially moved up on Monday (2/2). She's not really happy about it. We always have a hard time when she transitions and it usually takes about 3 weeks or more before she realizes the teachers don't have fangs and the class is actually fun! At least her Prince David is in there. I think that helps her - a little.

So those are the Sharp Family updates. The latest and greatest. Happy Saturday!