Christmas Cookies...

Here are some pictures of Katy and me making Christmas cookies. She helped with every step of the process including pouring, mixing, rolling out the dough and cutting out the cookies. At the end I let her lick a beater. I turned around for a second to put the cookies in the oven and I hear her say, "I want to dip it". I look over my shoulder and she had finished licking her beater and was trying to dip it in the bowl to get more dough to eat; just like her daddy! Don't worry, I made sure everything stayed sanitary!

Alexis Marie Hickman

Alexis is now two weeks old and I have yet to post any pictures! She arrived on November 24th at 12:27pm and weighed 7 pounds 2 ounces. They gave me the pitocin at 9:30, I felt my first contraction at 10:30 and she was born before 12:30. Everything went really well except for the fact that I had a resident administer my epidural. I felt like I was on an episode of ER and this was the first epidural the guy had ever given. By the time he came to my room it was 11:30 and I was having contractions right on top of each other. He kept poking me with the dang needle over and over again and probably put the epidural in at least 5 times! Finally he called the Attending in and he did it correctly in 2 minutes; however, by then I was fully dilated and ready to push! I was so mad, because there wasn't enough time for the medicine to start working and I was not ready for a natural birth! The good part is that it was really fast and it's a lot easier to push when you're bottom half isn't numb!

She's only 16 days old, but so far Alexis is such a sweet, good natured baby. When she was first born she looked exactly like Kaitlyn did, but with brown hair and brown eyes. Every day she looks a little different and gets a little bigger. Kaitlyn is such a great big sister and loves to hold Lexie and play with her. Anyway, we are so blessed to have this little angel as a part of our family. She has such a sweet spirit and we love her so much. Enjoy the pictures!