12 Days Old

OK, so I have a little catching up to do. She's now 12 days old, and getting cuter and sweeter by the minute. Grandma and Grandpa are lucky in the fact, that we get to see Ainsley, Darci and Josh every day. Josh, Joel, Jim, and Josh's friend Derrick moved their stuff to Flagstaff on Tuesday, so they've been staying with us since Monday night. They'll be here for at least a few weeks, so we get to play every day.
Ainsley was born with a very large blister and a smaller blister on her head. (Rough delivery.!) The scabs finally fell off today, and luckily hair is growing where they were. Her little nose was quite crooked when she was born, but it's trying to straighten out. She was also born 'tongue tied'. What that means is, the little piece below our tongue that attaches it to our mouth, is too short, so it hinders nursing and over all feeding. She has an appointment with an ENT on August 7th to possibly get it clipped. Sounds awful, but it cures the problem. The doctor will also look at her nose to see if the problem will fix itself.
Here are a few more pictures....

AINSLEY PAIGE BENTLEY

Yessss, after a long anticipated wait, she is finally here.! She was born on Saturday, July 12th at 7:10 p.m. weighing 7 lbs 13 oz. She was 19 1/2" long, but at her 5 day pediatrician visit, she was only 19". She lost a half of an inch of her little conehead. Ü She has gorgeous dark hair, and has a very sweet temperment already. At times she looks a lot like Darci, then the next day she looks a lot like Josh.
The labor seemed like it was going to go by fast. Darci was admitted to the hospital on Friday night, and was told she would get a sleeping pill so she could sleep that night. That didn't happen. They started her on the PIT at 4:00am, but no real hard labor pains had begun for a while. They popped her water at about *;30am, and she got her epidural at 9:00am, and by the time that Jim and I got there at about noon, she was already between a 7-8. WOW, this is going to go by fast.! A little less than 2 hours later she was at a 9 1/2, so they decided to let her start pushing to get that last piece of cervix out of the way. Well, after 4 1/2 hours of hard pushing, and not really getting anywhere, Ainsley was finally delivered by forceps. I'll let Darci and Josh decide what parts of the birth they would like to share on their blog, so you'll have to peek at theirs. But from our point of view, she's a darling baby, and we love her a lot already.!
Grandma felt an instant bond as the photographer was man-handling my newest sweet granddaughter. (Long story) She told Darci the next day after she took her pictures, "Your mom hates me". I'll tell you what lady, you don't man-handle my granddaughter, and I won't have THAT look on my face. (You know THAT look, the look that can kill)
OK, enough of that. (Blood pressure is rising just thinking about it)
Ainsley was very lucky to have both sets of grandparents there. She got lots of love from Grandma and Grandpa Bentley, Grandma and Grandpa Maxwell, Aunt Janelle, Uncle Joel, Uncle Landon, Cousin McKenna, and Cousin Hailee.
We love her lots.!