Happy Birthday Jesus!

Okay, so his birthday isn't until the end of the month. But his favorite band, Blink 182, decided to reunite and go on tour again, and I thought he needed to go to the concert for his birthday. While I'm so jealous and really wanted to go, it's kind of hard to do with a 2 week old. Especially since the concert venue is 3 hrs away. So I called up his brother and said "Hey, take Jesus with you when you go to the concert, but don't tell him about it". Of course, after we bought the tickets, they added the local stop to their tour. Oh well, too late now.

The original plan was to get him to go to his brother's house "to play video games" and then they'd take off from there and not tell him where they were going. But I decided that since it was my idea and my surprise, I wanted to see his face when he found out what was going on. So before he went to his brother's, I told him that he should stop by the bank and get some money out because he wasn't going to go play video games, he was going to the Blink concert. He was so surprised, the look on his face was priceless. He didn't believe me at first, but it finally sunk in. It was so great!

So Lily and I have been on our own since he left at about noon. I'm thinking it'll be a long night until Jesus gets home. I don't know how single moms do it. So far, I'm really glad that I have such a supportive and loving husband! I couldn't do this day after day without him!

More Pictures

Just arrived home from the hospital. Daddy's a little excited to be home with his little girl.



Chica has been such a good dog with the baby. She is rather curious, but doesn't lick Lily, just sniffs. Which I'm very happy about.

We got a Pack 'n' Play from my parents, and it's been so nice to have downstairs. It has a changing table and a bassinet attached. It saves us from having to run upstairs everytime she needs to be changed and every time she falls asleep and we're too hot to hold her. That kid is such a heater!! I love this picture because it shows her tiny little dimples.

This picture is so stinkin' cute! It's her "Feed me Mama!" face. I just love it!

Cousin Riley is facinated with his new little cousin. He gets so worried when she cries and will sit there and watch and watch and watch her.

Grandpa and his new little grandbaby.

The proud Daddy and his little girl.

Here are the long-awaited pictures of our new little girl!

5 days old:



Grammy & Lily:



The new family!

She's Heeerrrre!

Liliana Olivia, born Aug 26, 2009 at 11:49pm. She was 7 lbs., 12 oz and 19" long. She's so stinkin' cute! I apologize because my computer doesnt want to read my camera when I plug it in and we don't have a card reader yet, so there are no pictures with this post. I promise I'll post some as soon as I can!

But the delivery went really well. We went in on Wed at 7:30am to be induced and by 9am, I had started with the contractions. Let me just tell you now, future mothers-to-be that may read this blog. If they ask you if you want the pill or the Pitocin, the pill may sound easier since you dont have to have an IV until the epidural and you can get up and walk around and blah blah blah, but it hurts! It's not an oral pill! I didnt know that when my doctor asked me which I wanted to do. But I did only have to have one dose, which is a major plus.

They did eventually start me on Pitocin about 5 hours later or so. Then things really got rockin' and it was quickly time for an epidural. I got the epidural at about 3pm, and felt soo much better!! Then, since I was feeling so muchbetter, it was time to kick everybody out and take a nap. I took about a 2 hr nap, woke up at about 9:30 when the nurse came in to check my progress. It was a welcome surprise to hear that I had gone from 4cm to 9cm while I was sleeping! I always knew naps were good for you! At about 10:15, it was push time, and little Lily popped out about an hour and a half later. Did I say that epidurals are good? I felt no pain with the delivery. We were talking and laughing through the whole thing, it was great.

But the epidural has long since worn off, and I never knew that my whole body could hurt so badly. My arms are sore from pushing (holding my legs, the sheet, etc), my left arm hurts from the tetanus shot I got, my you-know-what hurts because, well, it does, my tailbone gets sore quickly, my legs are sore from having to make so much effort going up the stairs and having to walk and do everything so slowly. Did I mention that my body hurt? :-) But it's all worth it for the cute little girl that's in her daddy's arms downstairs. I think we'll keep her.

Due Date

Our due date has finally come, and Miss Lily's showing no signs of coming today. But we do still have about 11 hours, so maybe she'll cooperate. Either way, we just had our final kidless weekend. And how did we celebrate that weekend? We watched some tv, sat on the couch, hung out, ate some ice cream. It was a very exciting weekend.

We had our final doctor appointment this morning, nothing has changed. She didnt check me, but that's because on Wednesday, I was at 1-2 cm. That won't go back and I'm not having contractions. I have a feeling that tomorrow will either be the longest day, because we're mostly ready to go, or a really short day because we still do have a couple of things to do before we can go to the hospital Wednesday morning. I think Tuesday night will be much like the night before Jesus and I left to go to Disney World. We slept all of about 2 hours because of the anticipation. But this event and it's results will last a whole lot longer than a week!

Eviction!

We had our latest doctor appointment yesterday. We're still at 1-2 cm, and still sitting and waiting. Since our doctor will be gone the weekend after our due date (which is Monday), we've decided that since we don't want Lily to come while the doctor is gone, we're going in Wednesday to begin the eviction process. If she doesn't come out and play by 7:30am Wednesday morning, we're going to be induced. So we should have a baby by Thursday the 27th! Hurray! So I guess we're going to have an August baby. I'm so ready to sleep on my stomach, even if it will only be for a night. Something about having to feed her...