More on the baby!

So here are a few. I will send out more as soon as I get the chance and will write what is going on in life. She is getting big!

Here are a few more

The baby has arrived

Well life has been pretty crazy to us. Today it is snowing like crazy and thank goodness it is Thanksgiving break. I'll let you in on a little bit that is happening in our lives. Chantal finished her student teaching and can now graduate and teach, but she won't be yet because we just had a beautiful baby. I will come back to this later in my blog.
To make life fun about a month and a half ago I was playing football and as I was diving across the goal line I got kneed in the back of the head. I split my head open really wide and spent the night getting stitched up. I'll add a picture for those of you who did not get to see my fun yet. Then two weeks after that I was playing in my intramural soccer game, that was getting a little more rough than usual, and ended up popping my knee out of place. I spent the next month hobbling around but I am happy to say that I am finally to the point that I can walk again and it doesn't hurt. I know I know, accident prone...won't stop me from doing what I like to do.
Now on to our newest news. Our baby was born on Nov 17 at 3:45. Chantal's water decided it was time to break at 11:30 the night before. No sleep at all seeing as those beds at the hospital are painful. We went through about 12 hours of labor before the doctor came and told us we were stuck at 8 cm. They said they would give us two hours and then do a c-section. We decided it was time to pray and in the end everything worked out and we didn't end up having to get one. Chantal was lucky and only pushed for about ten minutes and out came the baby. I thought I was not going to want to help, but when it all started I got to help out the whole time. She came out and was born with an amazingly large amount of brown hair. We did not expect it! She was 7.7 lbs and 20 inches long. Her name is Brynlee Marie Dougal. She is pretty much adorable. The nurses were all obsessed with her and didn't want to bring her back into the room. She has been such a good baby though. She rarely cries except when getting her clothes changed because moscow is freezing cold and snowing. I will add as many pictures as I can. The last picture will be of the head wound so if you are woozy don't look at the last one.so I won't be showing the other picture below because I can't find it. I will and then I'll post it!

Random tidbits

Well, we are under two months until our new little girl shows up. We are pretty excited about it, but sometimes wish it didn't take so long. I guess if it wasn't hard everyone would want to do it and believe me, there are far too many screwed up parents already. I have time to write today because for the last week I have been fighting the flu and yesterday I woke up and could fight no more. It only knocked me out for about a day. Today I have already removed myself from the couch the couch, so that it a plus. It is not fun. I would suggest not getting it, but I can't complain because it wasn't really that bad compared to everyone else up here.
What else is new? Well, I added some new music. There is some pretty good music out right now. We are excited for So You Think You Can Dance again, but hope they don't turn it into a gimmick. I hate when everyone has some random story to get them by the judges. I know some are legit, but really, it's a dance show, not a soap opera. I figure we have enough of that in our lives. It seems that lots of facebook, myspace and blogs these days are only to whine and complain about things we dislike. So I will try to be more optimistic so I won't be one of "The Complainers"! Intramural soccer has started again and so far we are doing really well. We have won two for two. I have the shin bruises to prove it. Ballroom has also started. It looks like it will be the best year we have had so far. I hope it keeps going.
Soon enough I will start looking for jobs and figure where Chantal and I are going. That should be fun! I can't really think of anything else so I will write again another time.

and a little bit more

I'm just writing the post because lately I have been a little more down. It is frustrating. I have been to five doctors and all of them have no clue how to do their jobs. So I came to a new doctor and he did a great job and he had tons of ideas about my ribs and how I tore the cartilage between them! Well life was going well. We finally knew what was going wrong and how to fix it. Then this morning I received a call from the doctor. The radiologist went over the xrays and was kind of confused. He said my chest looked like I had bronchitis. So he asked me how I was feeling and of course I am still terribly sore, but I have not been sick really. They checked my white blood cell count to see if it was a gallbladder problem and it isn't. They checked my blood oxygen levels to see if that was a problem. They checked my liver and everything else and so far have drawn lots of blood, but no conclusions. SO basically what this is coming down to is we could use all the prayers we can get right now. If anyone has any ideas other than that I am very much up for the suggestions! Thanks
Trevor

Baby Baby

This one is crazy that you can see her skin and bones. The doctor said she looks great! We are going to go in and get the 3D pictures in a few weeks so they will be even more clear.

This is my favorite. It's the I love you picture!

So people keep asking for the ultrasound pictures so here are a few so those of you who don't live out in the middle of nowhere moscow can see. We were finally able to scan them on the computer. Happy Days!

Today

So, if you ever wondered what people do without jobs I will show you. Chantal and I decided it was time to go outside and do some sidewalk chalk art. It was fun. If you can't already tell I was the creator of the Tide art. Beautiful!


This picture below is Chantal at 22 weeks. In all reality she is kind of pushing out so she looks pregnant. The baby just hasn't yet decided to jump out yet. That is completely fine with us.
This last video is moscow water. We cleaned out our water heater and boy did it look delicious.


What else to add. We won our first two softball games. We knocked off the number one team. It was 24-11 and we 12 runned them in the 5th inning. Now I am just picking out music for next years ballroom team so I should probably get going.