Olivia is 1 month old!

Hello all!

Wow, it's hard to believe that our baby girl is already 1 month old - where did the time go? She is getting so big already! Her umbilical cord stump fell off at exactly 4 weeks, so now she's officially "done" lol. She also had a check-up at 4 weeks, and she now weighs 10 lbs 2.5 oz. She had lost more weight at first than the doctors wanted and wasn't gaining like she should, but now they say she's doing great.

We took these pics last night, some of them were before she got to eat so she was understandably a bit fussy. You can see her finished belly button in some of them too. Oh, and in the last one, she is smiling! She has been smiling for over a week or so now, not laughing just yet, and not cooing or vocalizing, but she sure does smile when we play with her! she just loves it!

First Professinal Pictures

So I know this is the third post in the same day, but we had some catching up to do! Today we picked up Olivia's first professional pictures, and they came out so great!

Make a Smilebox postcard

Olivia's First Christmas!

So this is Olivia sleeping while we were visiting with her Paw-Paw, he came up for the holidays. You can see her beautiful hair in this pic!

Then there's her first picture with Santa - she looks so small and far away in it, because the Santa was so big, and we didn't think to get a close-up shot of it all. She was just 6 days old in this pic!

This is our first Christmas together. Definitely the cheapest Christmas Santa is ever going to have!

Welcome Baby Olivia

Well hello everyone! It's been awhile since we posted on here, we have been so very busy since the last post!

We had an original induction date set for Dec 16, but an ultra-sound showed that Olivia was already getting even bigger, so they moved the date up to Dec 9. They tried induction for two days but it did not work, I just would not progress farther than 2 cm dilated. Then they went ahead with a c-section, which we knew was a good possibility. WEll, let's just say it was awful, quite an experience. The anesthesiologist argued with me when I told him I could still feel some pain, and said they had to get started because the spinal would wear off soon. By the time they got to the deeper cuts I could feel everything and was screaming, so they put me under and had to get the baby out fast. It was an awful experience, and I was out of it for the rest of the day/night.

She turned out perfect though! She was 9 lbs, 6.8 oz, 21 inches long! She is just gorgeous, has a head full of beautiful hair that has natural highlights! EVERYONE who sees her says this! When it's wet it's curly like mine, but when dry is straight. Eyes are blue for right now of course, we're waiting to see if they are like mine and Blaine's!

Since this is a bit late, she is already 4 weeks old, will be a month old on Sunday. Can't beleive how the time has flown, but I have slept through half of it, and wished I were sleeping through the other half. It has been crazy to say the least.

Now that things are getting somewhat back to normal, we will be posting more often.