The Schwartes

Lucas was born on 12/14/09 at 4:26pm.  He weighs 9lbs 5oz and is 21 inches long!  He’s got black/brown hair and dimples in each cheek.  He definitely looks like his big sister but then his features are different.  Here are some first pics of our sweet boy.

big boy!

After his first bath - they brushed his hair!

Visitors under the age of 18 aren’t allowed in the hospital due to the H1N1 virus so Charlotte gets to meet her new baby brother tomorrow when we go home! 

Thanks everyone for all of the wonderful emails, texts, and phone calls!  We can’t wait to introduce baby Lucas to everyone!

Love,

The Schwartes

Abby, Eric, Charlotte, Lucas & Kaiser

This will be my last belly pic as tomorrow is the big day to meet our baby boy.  My belly is very nice and round.  We’re very excited to go from a family of three to a family of four!!  I know Charlotte will be an amazing big sister!!

Family of three for one more day!

Daddy and Charlotte went for a hike on Saturday.  It was pretty chilly outside.  The camo was Daddy’s special purchase.

Charlotte put stickers on Kaiser and he tolerated it, I think, because it felt good.  Notice the stickers on his back.  She’s hugging him here.  Poor boy just doesn’t know that he’s getting another one tomorrow. 

Blowing bubbles in the bathtub…

Aunt Kelly sent a headband of fake hair.  Charlotte thinks it’s hilarious!

Here’s Charlotte playing with her Nativity set in front of the Christmas tree.

Nanny’s been in town helping and Charlotte and her had some cuddle time together.

I’m trying to update our blog with some recent pictures as I anticipate the next week will be very busy and the pics will be with our new baby boy!  These are videos from the day we went to pick out our Christmas tree.  It was a beautiful day.

Charlotte wants a cookie

Playing Outside

I’m officially past due and incredibly surprised.  As I mentioned before, Charlotte was 10 days early so I assumed that this little guy would be somewhere on the same path.  I know this won’t be the last time he reminds me that these are two different babies, two different pregnancies.  I think he’s just too happy and cozy at this point.  While I seem to be trying everything to make baby boy come out naturally, he’s just not cooperating.  We have been advised by the doctors to be induced on Monday and decided to go forward with it.  I’m a little nervous about the whole process but extremely excited to meet the new addition to our family.  Eric and I like to do things as naturally as possible so hopefully everything will go smoothly.  We’ll keep everyone posted!! 

In the meantime, I feel like I’ve gotten a few things accomplished with my extra time.  My mom has been here for over a week and Charlotte’s been loving all the extra attention.  It’s been very nice to run errands and get things organized.

Oh, I’ll try and post some belly pics before then.  He’s still very active and my belly is huge!  It still amazes me!

Charlotte is so silly and has SO many faces to go with it.  Here are just a few I managed to capture in just a few minutes.

Charlotte had a great time picking out the Christmas tree this past Sunday.  She ran around and touched all of them.  She was very “helpful.”  :)  We’re excited to have the tree up and it definitely feels like the holidays in our house now.

Looking for a tree

sitting on Daddy at the most inopportune times

My Aunt Nancy and Cousin Kallie visited NYC and we were able to have dinner with them.  (We missed Uncle Steve!)

Nancy and Kallie

The girls