Hospital Newborn Photos

Baby Tanning Bed.

Olivia has had a problem with jaundice since we brought her home. Yesterday we took her to the Doctor's office because she was looking a bit orange and the doctor said that she needed to be on a bili light for the next 24 hours. That means that we can't hold her unless she is feeding. And even then we have what is called a blanket bili light that needs to be on her back. At first she didn't seem to mind but this morning she has decided that she doesn't like it at all. Probably because it is beginning to work.

Any way It looks like she is on a tanning bed. We thought that we would share.

Olivia Ann Barnett

Monday September 19, 2011 4:33 PM we were blessed with a precious little angel. Her name is Olivia Ann Barnett. Chelsea was induced at 1:50 PM by breaking her water, no pitocin was used. After about 20 minutes contractions started. After about 2 hours Chelsea began pushing at 4:30 PM. Chelsea was awesome when it came time to push and it only took 3 rounds of pushing to get Olivia into this world.

Olivia wasn't breathing quite like the nurses and Doctors would have liked her to so they took her up to the NICU to put her on a CPAP machine to help her get going a little better. They also put a feeding tube in to get her a little nourishment and an I.V. in her hand to get some glucose into her system as her blood sugar was a little low. After about an hour on the machine the took her off and she did great on her own. So we took her down to the nursery to get bathed and dressed.

Currently her and Chelsea are doing well and resting. Olivia's blood sugar is a little low but nothing that a good feeding or two won't help with. We are so glad that she is here with us finally and that Chelsea is now going to return to normal after 9 months of not being able to eat normally, having migraines, and having her heart race at 200 beats per minute for no reason whatsoever.

Halloween costume shopping

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Floor Tile in Basement Bathroom

We got the floor tile in the basement bathroom on Wednesday night. It was really easy to do. The longest part was cutting the tile with my dinky cheepo tile saw.

Corner by the door, detail of border.

Whole Floor view, kinda.

Corner next to shower detail of border.

Tiled the Shower in the Basement

Yesterday we tackled the job of tiling the showing in the basement bathroom. This was an adventure!

First I would like to thank Mark and Ron for coming over to help with this project. I it always nice to have help.

The shower to begin with was just framing, so we put up some tar paper for water proofing and then the cement backer board. Unfortunately when putting up the first piece of backer board I screwed the board into the hot water line. But not only did I screw it into the hot water line but the screw went into the elbow piece that connects the line to the mixer! We had a sideways old faithful that shot water across the bathroom, across the hall and if the hall wall wasn't there it would have shot I'm sure all the way to the back of the basement! Chelsea went to Home Depot to get some replacement parts since we didn't have any on hand. Meanwhile Mark and I finished cutting the other pieces of cement backer board for the rest of the shower surround. Boy cutting that board sure was a dusty job, worse than drywall.

Once Chelsea got back we fixed the leak and put up the cement board without any further incident. By this time Ron had arrived and helped to water proof the seams of the surround which was a big help since I don't do so well with those kinds of detail oriented things. We then took a break for lunch.

After lunch we were all ready to go to cut some tile and start putting it up but the tile saw that I purchased months ago didn't come with a blade! OIE! So Chelsea and I took the kids to the store to get a saw blade. But Ron and Mark had to get home so that was ok.

Once home with the saw blade we started cutting the tile and putting it up on the wall. Don't worry Chelsea only handed me one piece at a time, perfectly safe for her to do at this stage of pregnancy. It took us about 4 hours to tile the whole 32" by 32" shower from floor to ceiling. We barely had enough thin-set to finish the job, but we think it turned out great!

Decorative Tile Detail

Full Shower

Ceiling Tile Detail

We have Carpet in our basement!

We now have carpet in our basement! It took all day to be installed but it is done! And it looks, and feels great. We are so excited to be almost done with this project. We just have the bathroom to finish out and then we will be totally done. Yea!