I don't like my car seat mommy!

Lilianna's First Trip to Ottawa

Four generations of women.

Lily and her great grandparents.

Lily and her great grandmother.

Lily meets Allison and Stephanie.

Erin and Lily cuddling together.

Julie couldn't wait to get her hands on Lilianna, who knows, maybe Lily has sped up Julie's biological clock!

Lily and Michelle, I KNOW Lily has sped up Meesh's biological clock!

Two peas in a pod

How cute is this?

The "Ooooo" Face

This is our favourite expression Lilianna has developed in her short time with us. As cute as it is, it means she's filling her diaper, or at least is about to.

2 weeks already?

Our little girl is 2 weeks old today, time sure is going fast! It seems like only 20 minutes ago I was in the doctor's office listening to her heartbeat on doppler and wondering if she was a boy or a girl. Jason and I are head over heels for our tiny little angel. She's brought so much to our lives already, we don't even mind the fact we're going on 4 hours sleep a night.



This past week we tackled our issues with breastfeeding (it was looking like it wasn't going to work for a while there) and now she's nursing like a pro...thank god! I hated bottles. Jason's a little disappointed that he can't feed her anymore but he knows it's so much better for her to breastfeed so he's spending a lot of time with her doing other things like rocking, changing and burping her.



Lily's very alert for long stretches in the day now, she's fascinated with everything she sees. She loves bath time and sleeping on mommy's tummy.



Grandma Hewens has had a fun week spending time with her and now we're getting packed up for a short trip to Ottawa to meet everyone. I'm a little nervous about having her in the car so long at such a young age, hopefully she handles it well. We'll see everyone real soon!

Amanda & Lilianna

Pretty in Pink

Too cute for words

I'm very alert a lot of the time now, I love to look around and watch what the big people are doing.

The camera loves me, I have my own paparazzi!

Now I lay me down to sleep
I pray the lord my soul to keep
may angels guide me through the night
and wake me with the morning light.

Grandma and Grandpa Hewens meet Lily

Grandma and Grandpa Hewens came to visit Lily this week. Grandpa had to go back to Ottawa on Sunday but Grandma is staying for the week. She's soaking up as much Lilianna as she can. Next week we're all heading up to Ottawa so Grandpa can spend some more time with his granddaughter and so Lily can meet auntie April and the rest of her family and all of mommy and daddy's friends.

A family stroll and tummy time

We took Lily out for her first walk today. She loved her stroller and all the fresh air, it put her right to sleep. Jason pushed her around just beaming with pride.





After our walk we had tummy time. Lilianna demonstrated how she can turn her head from side to side and even push up a bit. We think she's gifted ;)

Lily's First Days

Our little angel sleeps...and sleeps and sleeps and sleeps!


Lily's first bath, she kinda liked it


Yum Yum!


Proud mama


We're going to have to get her something pink!


Is that the faint trace of a smile?


Listening to Daddy sing

It's a Girl!

We are thrilled to introduce our precious little girl

Lilianna Elizabeth Goetz

Birthday: July 1st, 2006
Time: 6:59 am
Weight: 6lbs, 15oz.
Length: 21in
Hair Colour: brown with frosted blond tips (so pretty!)
Eye Colour: Blue

At 11:00pm on Friday, June 30th I started getting some contractions with substance. After about 2 hours of those at 10 minutes apart they got stronger and jumped to 6 minutes apart. Jason was a bit nervous about waiting any longer to go to the hospital since it's a half hour away from our house. So I called the birthing centre to see if it was time and while I was talking to the nurse I had a contraction. When it was over the nurse said "yeah....you'd better get in here.". So off we went to Walkerton at 1:30 am on Canada Day. When we got there they checked me and I was at 3 cm and having contractions that lasted about a minute and they were still at every 5-6 minutes. Jason and I went for a little stroll outside and then came back in and played a couple hands of Crazy 8's to pass the time. At about 3:00 I started to get rather uncomfortable so I got into the whirlpool tub to relax a bit, that's where the fun started. My contractions quickly jumped to every 3 minutes and they were peaking 3 times. At about 4:30 I couldn't take it anymore and asked for Fentanol, it's a painkiller that is just supposed to take the edge off and it has no side effects the way demerol does. So before they could give me that they had to check how far I'd come. I'd progressed to 8-9 cm at that point and my contractions were right on top of eachother. It took them about 20 minutes to get me prepared for the drug (it's hard to give someone a needle who's constantly writhing around) and give it to me and I was told it would take effect in about 5 minutes after it was injected. After 3 more contractions I told them it wasn't doing anything! So I got up and went into the bathroom just in time for my water to explode, that was an odd sensation. So back to the birthing bed for me. The doctor was called at 6:30am as well as 2 med students who I said could watch the birth. My doctor just happened to be on call that night so he got there about 5 minutes later. All of a sudden my body took over and the next thing I knew it was pushing for me, that freaked me out. The doctor checked really quick and said I was ready to go and on the next contraction to push. So I did. The first one didn't go so well, I gave up halfway through from exhaustion ( I hadn't slept since 8am Friday morning), the next one brought her right down and I told the doctor "there's no way I can do this for an hour, that baby's coming out on the next one!" Jason says the doctor smiled at him with a "sure it is" expression on his face. He looked completely shocked when I actually did just that. It all happened so fast the student doctors didn't make it in time. It took Jason a second to calm down to tell me it was a girl and she was a tiny little thing. She's completely healthy and, we think, the cutest little girl ever! we're so in love with her and can't even remember what life was like pre-Lily, nor do we care, we're so happy she's here and we can't wait for everyone to meet her.
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Lily and I seconds after birth

An exhausted mommy and baby.

Lily being checked out and warmed up.

Lily opens her eyes!

Proud daddy and daughter

Dr. McArthur watches as a student doctor checks on Lily

Our sleeping angel

Everyone sleeps but mommy

Our new Family

Canada Day Baby? Maybe!

I just had an appointment with my OB and he says it looks like I'll have this baby sometime this weekend, most likely in the next 24 hours! My blood pressure is a little high and so he wants me to come back in tomorrow to have it checked (if I haven't already gone into labour) and if it's still high, they'll probably induce me. I'm getting some strong contractions but they're still irregular and I've been put on bed rest in the meantime. Stay tuned folks, the doctor says the baby is really low and it looks like it'll be a quick labour so there may be some pictures posted fairly soon!

We're so excited!

38 weeks and 5 days...but who's counting?

1. Front view 2. Side view 3. Sexy side view, check out the stretch marks people..frig! 4. my sausage feet

I took some new pictures for 2 reasons, 1. everyone said I looked so unhappy in my last pictures. It was 40 degrees out that day, you'd look unhappy too with 30lbs of belly and a tiny furnance inside you! And 2. I wanted to see if I'd gotten any bigger since I can't tell by looking in the mirror. The last pictures we took actually shocked me, I had no idea I was THAT big. It explains why my train ride home from Ottawa was so uncomfortable.
My OB says I'm already dilating and I'm getting some contractions with substance now so hopefully baby Goetz will be making his/her debut any day. At my last appointment the doctor estimated the baby at about 8lbs....8 Lbs! Ahhhhhh! He also offered to "go in there and stir things up", Jason looked totally freaked out by the doctor's generous offer so we declined and opted to let nature take it's course, but after a week of sausage feet and no sleep I may just take him up on his offer this week! My dad is insisting that this baby will come tomorrow, but it better not, I have a day of pampering booked at the spa tomorrow. My "push present" from Jason, but it all works out for him cause now he has his day free to golf which I'm sure is worth the expense of a mani-pedi.
Stay tuned folks, it won't be long until there's pictures of me in agony and of our precious little angel posted for everyone to see! Think easy-labour thoughts for me!

A Day at the Beach

Who needs to go to the Carribean when I have this 5 minutes from my house. I can't wait to share days like this with the baby and my wonderful husband.