OMG, I AM FAMOUS!!! Thanks to Kelle Hampton's photos!!!

Today I got an email from a Shutterfly employee telling that my Check out my Shutterfly digi scrapbook I put together with the awesome pics that Kelle took of Chase and me. Then, scroll down to see the email that Shutterfly wrote me after having my book inthe gallery for only 3 weeks.

Click here to view this photo book.

"Dear Aligator,

My name is Rachel Bakker and I manage the Shutterfly Gallery. Your photo book, ‘Our New Blessing’, is so special that I have decided to feature it in our Shutterfly Gallery home page, Family, Baby, and Digital Scrapbooking categories.

http://community.shutterfly.com/gallery/home/start.sfly?http://community.shutterfly.com/gallery/browse/start.sfly?occasion=Family
http://community.shutterfly.com/gallery/browse/start.sfly?occasion=Baby
http://community.shutterfly.com/gallery/browse/start.sfly?occasion=Digital%20Scrapbooking

Your book will be featured for at least 3 days, possibly more. Thanks so much for sharing.

Best,

Rachel Bakker

P.S. The images in your book are absolutely beautiful – love that you included your older son in the shots. And the cover with you and your husband’s bellies facing each other is so endearing. Great scrapbooking too – complements the images perfectly. Thank you again for sharing this special book to Gallery. "


THANKS AGAIN KELLE for sharing your talent with me! You are the best!!! Anyone in the Naples area who wants a photographer, make sure you contact Kelle Hampton!!!

IT'S A BOY!!! Calhan "Cal" Wolff Brinkley! "Wolff" is my mom's maiden name. Chase's middle name is Dawson's Mom's maiden name "Taylor." We like the name Cal and just kinda came up with the name Calhan to go with it. We also wanted to have his name start with a C like his big brother.

The delivery went perfectly! The anesthesiologist was a PIKE at Florida so we all bonded right away. He let my mom in the operating room with us. Usually you can only have one person (hubbie) with you. I feel so blessed to be able to have both of them share this experience up close with me (my mom was also in the delivery room with us for the delivery of Chase). The procedure was very fast. I was able to hold Cal for a long time after the birth and he came with me to the recovery room so that I could breastfeed right away. That is a blessing. Breastfeeding is going a little bit better this time around and I have a great lactation nurse helping me.
Chase is sick and was running a fever of 101.5 Wednesday night. A child at Chase's daycare had Strep, but Chase never had physical contact with him this past week. Dawson took Chase to the pediatrician Thursday and he was started on antibiotics just in case it turned out to be Strep. Fortunately, Nanna and Mammaw have Chase at their house while I am in the hospital. That way it limits the possibility of exposure to infection. I still have not seen Chase since Thursday, but may get to see him tonight. He has not had a fever for 24 hours and has been on antibiotics for over 24 hours. We should be safe, just need to do a lot of good hand washing.

Dawson got some awesome shots of the action in the delivery room. He was not supposed to take some of these pics, but managed to sneak a few! So cool to see what was really going on behind the sheet.

We probably will be here til Monday. I just wanted to share some of these great pics with you all. I am off to go to sleep now since I only got 3 hours of sleep last night. Cal was HUNGRY!!! I am also on some hard core drugs still so I am very sleepy.

He is such a cute little bundle of joy! I love him so much! OH yeah here are his stats: born yesterday at 12:04 pm, 7 # even and 20".

Thanks everyone for all your well wishes. Nite Nite!

Dawson taught Chase this little trick. He pretends that he is going to tell you a secret and gets you to come close to you and then he splashes you! He makes me laugh every day!

1 week left!

A few weeks ago, we went to My Gym's open house. They had many vendors there including Picture People. They took free pics of Chase. Look at this cute little guy! I love him so much!

Two weeks from tomorrow and I am a mother of two! It is the final count down! My C-section is scheduled for Friday 9/19/08 at noon! I am gonna be so hungry! The doctor told me that I have started to drop, but I am not dialated. I am happy about that because I don't want any chance of going into labor. If I have to get a C-section, there better not be any labor pains for this girl!! I have decided that next week will the the last week I physically go into work before I have this baby. I can do some work from home the last week. It will just be nice to have the house to myself, sleep when I want, and pamper myself before my world completely changes.

Here is a cute video of Chase playing catch with his Daddy! BTW, I love footed jammies!!! Doesn't he look so snuggly!