7 weeks

Well, life has been quite interesting over the past seven weeks. I think we are adjusting pretty well to being 4 instead of 3 and Claire hasn't wanted to send Delia back yet. Claire is getting a little better each day, but I have definitely decided that 3 year olds are far worse than 2 year olds! So far she has tried to burn the house down, told us she won't need parents when she gets bigger and lately has been telling us that we are bothering her! If she makes it to see 4 it may be a miracle...

Delia is a very good baby. She has been awesome with sleeping at night and continues to entertain us with her pooping techniques. It takes a lot of effort to have a bowel movement when you're only weeks old! She grunts, turns red and even gets tears in her eyes. One day she even spit up and had milk come out of her nose she was pushing so hard- very scary for her and Mommy! She is interacting with us more and more each day and smiles a lot. It's hard to imagine life without her.

Claire started preschool a couple weeks ago and absolutely loves it. She's made a lot of new friends and thinks her teachers are great. She has also become quite an impressive swimmer. She floats on her back, swims under water for about 5 feet and can do a little back stroke. Maybe there is a little athleticism in her yet...

We hope you enjoy the pics (sorry about the one of Delia, I can't get the darn thing to rotate!) and summer is treating everyone well!

Latest Addition

Well the latest addition to the Schwab family is here - her name is Delia Helene Schwab. She arrived on 6/23 at 1.03 pm at 20.75 inches and 8lbs 9 ozs. Sara was a champ again. We arrived to Scripps about 11.30 and it seemed for a while like we might have a long day ahead of us - she checked in at 6cm dilated. Things took a turn for the better and Sara was feeling ready to push so Doctor broke her water at 1 and went to get ready. Sara fired Delia out at 1.03. The nurse caught her head with one half gloved hand while she pulled the other glove on with her teeth while yelling for the Doctor who came charging in to make a webgem shoestring catch - all right - I'm exaggerating on the webgem shoestring bit, but the rest was true. The doctor skipped with the fancy sterile gloves and threw on the purple nitriles, no hair net or surgical gown as the head was all the way out when she arrived. Two pushes and out came Delia.

Check out the pics and see for yourselves - but looks an awful lot like her big sister. Maybe we all look alike after soaking in water for 10 months, but a bit eerie, a rounder face and slightly more hair, but besides that - déjà vu.

Allright, that’s all for now, but wanted to share the great news and some pics. Hopefully Sara and Delia come home tomorrow – and I’m sure after Sara reads this my blogging card will be suspended – but hope you enjoyed! Brandon

BTW - just got a text from Sara and apparently she's inherited my GI track as she's already under 8 pounds and burned through a 6 pack of dipes.

The 3 girls Proud Big Sister

Delia on the top (with hat on) - Claire on the bottom (no hat)
Dad and Delia

Waiting...

Being my first day on maternity leave, I thought I'd find some time to update this thing. It's only

been a year and 3 months! And people really think I have time to do Facebook- ha!

We are all anxiously awaiting the arrival of the newest member to our family. As most of you know, Claire is absolutely determined to have a little sister. I'm sure she'll need a few sessions of therapy if it turns out to be a boy, but either way she will be a great big sister. She has told me that she will be able to feed the baby all by herself and recently has been asking me how I will get the baby out. I told her Mommy would have to push the baby out and she said she would help- she started pushing on my belly. Oh, if it were only going to be that easy!

Claire is also very proud of the fact that she is now 3 years old. We celebrated by going to Disneyland on her big day. Little did B and I know that she would have been perfectly satisfied with staying in a hotel room and going on a bus ride. She did end up having a blast, as did we. Most of the rides were very cool and she thought seeing the different characters was a lot of fun. There was a little hesitancy at first with Mickey, but she slowly got over it by the end of the day. She also got to have a 'rainbow sparkle cake' and a couple of her friends over on Friday, which led her to think that she should continue to have parties on a much more regular basis!

As I said earlier, we are now in waiting mode for the baby. I had my last day of work on Friday and am trying to get a little bit of relaxation in before his/her arrival. We will be sure to keep all of you posted if there is any appearance by the little one. Hopefully you'll be hearing from one of us sooner rather than later!