Zoe Terah Detwiler

Zoe Terah Detwiler - 6 lb. 6 oz. 19 inches long - 08/26/08 - 2 PM

Here she is!!! I've been waiting to do this blog since I first began blogging!! We welcomed Zoe Terah into our lives on Tuesday, August 26th at 2 pm in Childress. I can't believe that we're parents....mostly I can't believe that I'm a Mom!! I go to my Mom to get answers and figure stuff out....that's what' she'll do to me in years to come!! Pretty crazy...I guess that's the whole being a parent thing though!! As I'm typing this she is sweetly sleeping...I can't wait for you to meet her in person, but until then, I'll keep this updated with her growing progress. However, I won't fill your eyes with words this time, just the sweet pictures of little Zoe!!

One of Zoe's first pictures

Daddy & Zoe

Our first family picture....and yes there were tears. :)

Our Second family picture!!

Zoe's first "check-up" with Dr. Henderson

Mia & Zoe....Mia has been waiting a long time to meet Zoe
MaMaw & Grammie meeting their newest granddaughter

Papa & T-Pa meeting little ZoeUncle Jody & Aunt Sarah meeting Zoe....Thanks Jody for the great filming!!!

Mama Bea (my grandmother...this is her 10th great-grandchild!) and Aunt Tana (Zach's twin) meeting Zoe

Jason & Sarah Cox meeting Zoe...thanks for driving in to meet her!!!

getting closer!!!

We went to the dr on Monday and since we can now deliver here, Praise Jesus, we have scheduled a C-Section for Tuesday, September 2nd at 1:00 PM. Of course I would prefer to have her naturally rather than have a C-Section, but since my daughter is already showing a little personality and won't flip, we'll have to do it this way. It's a crazy thought to know that in less than 2 weeks I'll get to meet my daughter. I've always wondered what my children would look like and what their personalities would be like...and in two weeks I'll know what 1 of them will be like. It's a crazy thought. I'm excited about it all and very much ready. It's really fun to watch Zach get ready for this event. I really think that he is the one that is nesting instead of me. Sunday afternoon he went on a huge cleaning spree at our house, originally he was going to go running and then mow the lawn....I think he prayed to get rained out because when he did get rained out he cleaned. I love how helpful he is around the house though. Most of the time I don't have to even ask him for his help, he just does stuff. I know that he'll be a great Dad, I'm ready to introduce him to little Zoe. Ok...I'm off to finish some thing up....like packing my bag for the hospital....each day Zach keeps asking me if I've done that....I don't think the birth of his daughter is freaking him out nearly as much as having to pack a bag in a rushed moment for me!! I'll take pity on him today and pack my bag!! :)

baby shower, baby tiredness, just being a baby??

It's 100% amazing just how tired I am each and every day. I can sleep until about 8:45 in the morning and get a nap but by about 8:30 in the evening I am ready for a long winter's nap. Maybe it the fact that I look like I'm hauling a watermelon around with me, or that the baby it due in about 30 days or so....(I'm not obsessed, there was a countdown on a web site yesterday that's how I know)....I just know that I'm always exhausted.

On a much lighter much more fun note, little Zoe's baby shower is this Saturday. I'm always so overwhelmed to see how much love is poured out at these showers. Friends and family go all out to make it such a great event and I always feel so special and loved when I leave. I can't wait to see the tiny outfits. To me that's the best part of a baby shower, to see all of the different tiny little outfits. I'm getting really excited.

But something I'm getting even MORE excited about is the fact that we could possibly be meeting Zoe in August....if not in August then for sure sometime in the first two weeks of September!! As a little girl, just like most little girls, I always dreamed of being a mom and of meeting my little baby for the first time. Now that this time is approaching I'm kind of freaking out. Not that I'm going to have the baby, but that this baby will be mine to keep. It kind of sounds like I'm buying her or something. But I'm watched my nieces at different stages in their life and love doing it, but I always took comfort that I wasn't responsible for them for the rest of their life....like to meet their daily needs. I mean honestly, getting them juice or feeding them a bottle is one thing, but planning their school clothes and birthdays was always out of my realm of "watching".....but now I'm the one that will have the school clothes and birthdays realm....so that I guess is what's freaking me out just a tad bit.....I realize that is what the world has called parenting for ages....but now that's it's me it feels totally different.

But I realize that the Lord has created this little girl for Zach & I to take care of, and that He has entrusted His daughter to me to be my daughter....that is what I think is the coolest thing. He is such an awesome God, He already knows what Zoe looks like, He already knows what color of hair and eyes she has, He already knows when her birthday will be. That is so awesome!! Anyway, I need to get some things finished for the baby shower on Saturday. I hope you have a blessed Thursday and an awesome weekend!!