cakes...

well i started decorating cakes again...it is super fun! i can't wait to do more. i am doing it for fun so if anyone needs a cake...i sure would like the practice! :)

Food food food

This is a typical evening feeding. She sure loves sweet potatoes. This is what happens when the baby food isn't thick enough. she loves talking while she eats as well...therefore..i should probably get a bib as well. she sure eats a lot too! when she was nursing...she didn't eat too much. that is why i switched to formula. now she is a HEALTHY eater. that is making me really happy. she is slinder too, so i don't feel like i am over feeding her. We sure love her a lot right now!!!

OATMEAL!

She loved it, as you can see the oatmeal landed all over her face.
she still doesn't have the swallowing thing down. she likes to chew on the spoon, so she only swallows part of the oatmeal. most of it lands on her face or on the bib.

New bows and a vacation

I ordered some bows from my friend tacie in Idaho....she makes them. i got them sat in the mail...i love them, but as you can see Lily isn't as excited as I am.

I LOVE THE RED!!

This is daddy and Lily in the hotel room before our friends wedding. My childhood friend got married in sacramento and we decided to go down there and attend. we stayed the night in the marriott in elk grove and it was fun. this is before the reception. Olivia has a problem with slobbering, so i took off her dress until we left.

I love this girl

almost 5 months

My Life is good...

The other day my wonderful husband and I were at the kitchen table eating lunch, as we always do since he works nights, and we were talking....Ben says to me" I was thinking today about how good my life is. We are happy, healthy and have a wonderful little baby. We have a great situation being in our apartments and we are going somewhere. I am really happy!" SO AM I! things are just going great right now...and I could jinx them, but lets pray for the best.

Today we had a little play date...it was fun to see them together...Diesel was so happy and Oliva wasn't sure abou the whole thing...it was really cute....can't wait until they are older and we can play more and more.

Vday and my Birthday

the movie was great!!! good chick flick, but great!

Oijya japanese steak house and suhi bar....WONDERFUL and entertaining...

this year was a little different. ben had to work on both valentine's day and my birthday, so we decided to celebrate both together on tuesday. so on vday he bought me roses and then tuesday began the journey. we started early because Olivia gets up about 6 am every day... then i started to get ready and ben watched her. about 12noon we took Lily to my dad's house and he babysat her while we went to the movies. we watched Valentine's Day. i loved it. but then again i usually always love chick flicks. there is just something to be said about a happy ending. that is what we pay for right? i mean who wants to go to the movies for a sad ending and pay for that? you could just watch life for free....anywho... then after the movie we went to this new resturant here in chico. it is like a bennyhanna's. they have the grill right there at every table and it was neat. ben had never tasted sushi and so we got some and both ordered steak and seafood. it was great..... but after 5 hours we definately missed Olivia. she was pretty happy to see us too. ben got me some new clothes and best of all a jogging stroller. i have wanted one since i got pregnant. i found one on craigslist...blessed craigslist...and bought it! i am so excited for the warm weather so i can try it out. Thurs, my actual bday, my dad(who actually shares my bday) took me out to dinner to thai food. it was really good....and then today was hula's with my sister molly and tomorrow another meal out with my mom....it has been a busy week, but i must say that i enjoy it for turning retched 27.

portfolio.

this one is my absolute favorite!! she is just loving the camera at this point.
she is figuring out how to use her hands....you can see her separating her fingers...

she loves to drool..

i recently taught her how to stick out her tongue...and so now when she gets excited....she kicks really fast and sticks out her tongue.

and the classic smile...

more pics..

these are the most recent pics of Lily...she sure is getting big..enjoy!

3 months

i love this hat! i got it at apple blossom baby for $2. Great buy!!

i am still figuring out my new camera. i know there are tons of settings on it, but i haven't figured out how to use them all...therefore...she always has a delayed reaction to the flashing from it.

i can't believe that Olivia is already 3 months old. she is getting prettier and prettier. she is FINALLY on a schedule..i love it! sometimes she takes 1/2 hr naps and sometimes she takes 3 1/2 hr naps. but she is taking naps! she is sleeping through the night. i can tell when she is hungry, tired and board. it is amazing how much we know eachother. i love her more and more!

PURE BLISS!!!

well the last few weeks, Lily hasn't been sleeping too well...and i felt like i tried everything. so about 2 weeks ago i went to get secrets of the baby whisperer...it is wonderful! this woman knows Just what she is talking about. so i have Lily now on a schedule. she is sleeping about 10-12 hours at night and she takes about 6 hours of naps during the day. she is still only sleeping in my arms....needless to say that is why i was able to watch the whole first season of desparate housewives in 2 days. but we are slowly getting there. for some reason, she won't nap during the day in her crib. she will only sleep in the swing for about 15 mins and then cries. as soon as i pick her up, she falls back to sleep. crazy child. anywho.....tonight was bliss......she was tired, and fussing, so i held her tight and she calmed down. then i put her in her crib, swadled her and put her hat on, her eyes were open, she she fell right to sleep. ON HER OWN!!! this is like the 3 or 4th time she has done this. it is hard for her not wanting to sleep on her own during the day, but i guess i pick my battles, because she is a WONDERFUL sleeper during the night.

the holidays

well the holidays are over...and i am glad. i love that time of year, but i LIVE for a schedule. it was fun though. it was Olivia's first Christmas and she slept through the whole thing. it will be more fun next year. she can at least open her own gifts. she is growing faster that we know. she is still skinny for her age, but she is getting big. she laughs now and is starting to talk. she is definately discovering her voice. we have noticed how different she cries now that she knows how to cry. this is her last night in the tub. we give her a bath every night and she was so tired from running errands yesterday, that she fell asleep in the tub.

she loves her swing. that is her nap place during the day. she is just so cute!

Lily

here is the newest on Lily. she is smiling now on cue...well if you can make her smile. she is trying so hard to talk. i can see it everytime i say good morning, or hello, or how are you to her. she is great and we love her more and more.

Sending Christmas cards

we are sending christmas cards this year. i am pretty excited about them...if you would like one...please send me your address...i will be mailing them this week!

New Pictures

we decided to get some pictures of Olivia while she was still really little....this is what she got! they aren't the best quality because i can't get our scanner to work...but they are sure cute!

a lot to do...

ok, well i have a lot to do today so i can't post too much, but we had Olivia's blessing yesterday. ben starts his new job next week and will be working on sunday so we weren't sure when the next sunday would be to do it. but it was really nice. Ben did a good job. it was a little scary being out with her. we haven't really taken her a bunch of places. my mom made the dress and it looked really nice!!

off to bed!

it is 1145pm and i am just now going to bed. 10 months ago, i was in bed everynight by 9pm. this sleeping schedule is totally different than what i am used to, but i wouldn't change it for anything. Lily is wonderful and i love her more and more. even when she is crying, i love hearing it! and i LOVE being able to sleep on my back!!!

ben and i have decided that her favorite place to sleep is on my chest. after i feed her and i am in the process of burping her, she always falls asleep, and will stay that way. one night i just layed down with her on my chest, and we took a nap together. it is a great feeling.

We love her!!

my back hurts, my tailbone hurts, and i am always tired. but we sure love her!!! we gave her the first bath last night and she loved it!!... i can't sit for long because of the tailbone soreness from delivery, but i will post more later!

She arrived....

Daddy was so so excited to have her finally arrive. He had a smile on the entire time!

I was exhausted...and still am. but she came and we love her!!

well just an update. our little girl finally came. she is wonderful. Wed night, i kept having this feeling that i needed to get things together and take a shower. i kind of got scared thinking it was going to happen in the middle of the night and i really didnt want my water to break on our new bed...well luckily i listened to that prompting. i took a shower, ben got home that night about 930 from work and we hung out. i went to bed about 11pm and just slept like normal, not very well. the next morning, i had another drs appt and so before i left, i told ben are you ready? and he was like yeah. i said well if i go to the dr and he says head to the hospital are you going to be ready for that? he says...you are so funny, like it is just going to happen that smoothly! well, i went to the drs and he wanted to strip my membranes again. well when he stuck his finger in to check for dialation, my water started leaking. then he asked me if i wanted to be induced today if he could get me in. i of course said yes! he said ok head to the hospital. so i got dressed, and called ben. Luckily he wasn't in class and answered right away. i asked him, are you ready? and he giggled because of what we had talked about earlier, and said yes. and i said ok, meet me at the hospital. he said oh, your ready? what happened? and i said i just asked you if you were ready. " i thought you were teasing me because of what we talked about this morining."says ben. i said nope, my water broke, he is going to induce me today, meet me here.

so i checked in about 9am, got in the room and they started with a vaginal tablet. i had to lay there for 2 hours before they would check me again. then ben got there about 20 min later and just hung out with me. after the 2 hrs, we went to walk around for a while to get things going. well i came back and i was only to a 3. so they upped the induction to an insert. i had to lay there for another 2 hours....still in pain because the baby put so much pressure on my hips, and i am in an uncomfortable hospital bed. after that, only dialated to a 4. about 6pm, started on pitocin. that got things going quickly.... Olivia was face up, so i started into back labor. that was the deal breaker for getting the epidural. i really wanted to see how far i could go with out it. that did'nt last long. i received that about 830pm....around 11pm, it wore off....WORST PAIN OF MY LIFE! the dr came back around 130am and did another epidural. that was wonderful! i was totally numb from the mid waist down. normally it would bother me, but the back labor was so painful, this allowed me to sleep through the night. around 430am the nurse checked me and i was dialated to a 7, went back to sleep. 7am, the nurse checked me and she said, ok there is the head...we are ready to push. so ben woke up, and called my mom. she met us there and we started pushing about 715 and she was born 10/30/09 at 904 am. Ben was so excited once the nurse said it was time to push. he was so tired the night before, and once that nurse mentioned pushing, he jumped right up and had a huge smile on his face.

other than the pain, the worst part was the vomiting. i think it was from the pitocin. i am not a big medication person. so between that and the 2 epidurals, i threw up quite a bit. once being in the middle of labor. i was pushing so hard, all the water i drank to keep my mouth wet came right back up. but it was worth every minute. Olivia came out crying on her own. she was healthy and so alert when she came out. they rested her on my chest and it was just amazing to know that she was mine and i helped create her. She looks SO much like Ben. she is just a cutie. I had GSB (Strep B) for the pregnancy so i was on anti-biotics for the labor and the drs wanted to monitor Olivia to make sure she didn't get it. but we left today about 1230 and she was doing just fine. it is nice to have her home. ben is off work until wed and so we are looking forward to spending time with our new family. we will show her off soon enough, but we are loving her and the whole process of getting to knowing her.

waiting...

i thought this explains it pretty good.... :)

well today is the day! we haven't had Olivia yet. she is taking her time.. i went walking for about an hour today and nothing! if i haven't had her by monday the dr is going to induce me...so we will see what happens. and the hospital bag is all packed..including my camera. so there won't be any new pictures until the baby comes!