Hey princess in your white dress.

Oliver is 1 month old! We tried to weigh him and it looks like he is about 11 pounds. I feel like he is getting bigger and bigger every day. He is still a good little boy but has become a bigger eater. At night he was eating every two to three hours but now its definitely every 2 hours or less that he wakes up to eat. He will still go back to sleep nicely after his bottle though so that makes me very happy. 

Heres some cutesy pictures!

Chad and Jordan went on a walk and came back bragging about how they went parkouring at this construction area and so we all went Parkouring, well chad kasey jordan and rachael went and I took some pictures. 

You told me about your past thinking your future was me

Well we've been really busy lately, long story short we moved and then realized our new apartment was a horrible desperate decision so everything is in storage and we are looking for a real place while we stay in thunderbay with chads family. its been rough, mostly for chads family who technically moved us 3 times with all the packing and unpacking of the uhaul. We are super thankful for them and for oliver who has been a good little boy through it all. 

An now oliver pictures? 

He turned three weeks yesterday, btw.

Our first bath time with oliver was real funny, where everything we didnt think of seemed to go wrong. The bath tub the hospital gave us was way too small which we didnt realize until he was in it. So when he peed it didnt stay under the water and then of course he pooped as well. I also filled the water up too high and we didnt have a towel ready. Since then we've gotten much better at baths and oliver enjoys them much more as well.

Just over a week old

 2 weeks old

3 weeks old

And heres a few moving pictures......

I wasnt here for this picture so im not quite sure whats going on. But i have a feeling even if i was there it wouldnt make much sense!

weave out weave out.

Little Oliver is here, and officially one week old today! We love him sooo much and I already can't imagine our lives without him. Here's a little about his birth and some cutiesy pictures.

The morning of chad's birthday around 5am I started having contractions. I wasn't positive they were contractions or just pains. At about 8am I started counting them and they were 10 mins apart. I decided they had to be contractions and laid there until 10am to wake chad up and tell him. Since it was still chad's birthday we went to pizza hut for lunch and picked up some fancy cupcakes and then went home. By the time we got home my contractions were 6 mins apart which is where they stayed and started getting more and more painful until we went into the hospital at midnight. 

Here I am checking in at the hospital. 

At the hospital I got some pitocin and we waited. I started getting the shakes really bad and they lasted just about the whole night and even after giving birth for awhile. It was pretty awful. Throughout the morning I was dilating well but by contractions were still being bad. I was very happy to get my epidural at 4cm but getting it was a little scary. I was shaking a ton and of course was told to stay as still as possible which was impossible. And then I was warned I could feel a "little" zing down my leg. I felt it. And it wasn't little. It was like getting that puff of air in your eye at the eye doctor. Supper shocking. So I jerked. And the anesthesiologist wasn't happy.  He tried again and things went well. (But this jerk was likely why I ended up getting spinal headaches which was super awful and went into the ER after getting out of the hospital and got a spinal blood patch which is a magical thing which made them go away instantly.)

Here I am looking lovely after the epidural. Around 3pm I was fully dilated but my contractions still weren't regular. After a little they decided I should try pushing anyways but after and hour and a half of that things still weren't moving right so It was decided I'd have a c-section.

Of course the operating room was being used and Oliver wasn't in any trouble so we waited another hour before things could get started. I had my 3rd epidural for the day, got my plastic cap on and was rolled through the halls into the operating room.

While I was getting all set up in the operating room chad put on his scrubs and took a selfie.

I have to say chad really was fantastic through the whole ordeal. We had a couple stressful moments like when he ran out of insulin and had to judge when the best time was to run back home to fill up, or when I started getting a fever and they said Oliver might have to be isolated for 24 hours after birth and put on antibiotics, and of course the c-section itself.

At exactly 8pm Oliver was born at 8.9lbs and 21 3/4 in long.  After he was born I was able to have a little skin to skin contact while they finished things up. I was pretty nauseous and still shaking so it was a little difficult. Right after getting back to our room though we got to cuddle again. Starting the first night Oliver was nice and quiet. He is an amazing baby and only cries when I change his diaper or wakes up. He is such a handsome boy I could stare at him all day!

All of our hospital bands.

Every time you kiss me its like sunshine and whisky

Well... today is Oliver's due date! My doctor says he should be born within the week. At my 38 week check up I was one centimeter dilated and 39 weeks was two. So things are going how they should and any day we'll be headed to the hospital! 

Yesterday when i was procrastinating a homework paper we drove down to Como park and started to walk around. When i reminded chad that walking can help start labor he told me we could sit down at a bench or head back to the car! I guess he wasn't quite ready for oliver to come that day :)