We made it!!!

Our first week is down in the history books, and we survived it. Our bodies have been good at dealing with the new sleeping cycle, which really there is no cycle, it's just sleep while you can!

This week The Brenton and I have started to figure out how to be parents to this wonderful tiny bundle of love. Adalena has been the perfect baby! When she is awake she is so alert, it's fun to watch her as she tries to figure out the world around her.

She has super human neck muscles and she picks her head up and moves it all around. While changing and feeding her, if she hears Brenton's voice, she will try to turn her head to find where he is.

And I think by far the best part has been watching The Brenton just melt over her day after day. The girl poops and it's the cutest thing to him....I am hoping he remembers this when she shows up to the house one day with Spike the biker that she met at the mall..I will have to keep a good record, that yes there was a day when she could do no wrong!

As for me, the recovery from the surgery has been "fine" This being my first surgery, I have no idea how recoveries are supposed to go. Drugs are my BFF, however I will enjoy the day when I will be able to make sense when I talk, and have complete and accurate sentenses. As for now, we all just chalk up my craziness to the drugs!

Okay well there you have it, here is a new picture of our little peanut. She is so tiny we had to go get her some premie clothes, and sad to say, premie pants are like Urkel pants on her...we are working on fattening her up that is for sure!

Thanks again to all who have shared in our joy and excitement this last week. We love our little girl so much, lets just hope she can survive her two crazy parents!

I love this picture, I caught her right in the middle of a hiccup! It makes me laugh! And if you are saying to yourself "she looks a little yellow" well you are right, we are currently working on her jaundice, it's a little high, but we think it will start coming down in the next day! Come on LIVER!!

The Queen has arrived

Sunday morning around 2am: "Did I just pee my pants?"

Sunday morning around 8am: "Brenton, I am having some water issues, I either just peed my pants or my water just broke"

10:30am-Nurse "Yup your water broke, go walk around for an hour to get your contractions going"

1pm- Nurse "You are dilated to a 1" (mind you on Thur before, I was .5cm)

6:30pm-Nurse "You are dilated to a 2"

6:31pm-Jazmine "I want an epidural!"

8pm-Nurse "For some reason the baby's heart rate is dropping with the contractions, there could be a cord around her neck or around her shoulder being pinched. It's 'OK' but we are going to watch it

9pm-Resident "The baby's heart rate is still dropping, if we can't get it up we may have to go in and do a C-section"

9:15pm-Resident "Will you sign these papers, it's just to authorize a C-section if one is needed"

10:05pm-Nurse "The Dr. would like us to try a few things, we are going to
1) Give you medicine to stop your contractions to give the baby time to recover
2) We are going to put some fluid back up in there to give her some room and take some pressure off of the cord
3) We are going to give you an IV of sugar water to stimulate the baby and get her heart rate up

10:10- Resident "We are going to need to do the C-section....lets go"

10:25-Jazmine "Are you nervous Brenton? Brenton No... Jazz-me neither
(both of us were lying!)

10:31pm-She is here!

Hooray...oh but that is not all.....

10:45pm-Dr. "Okay Jazmine, I found a mass on your ovary and it is hard, I can either remove it now, or we can wait until you recover to figure out what it is

10:46pm-Jazmine (under a LOT of drugs) "WHAT????"
10:47pm....after considering the fact that we have insurance now that will cover it, they are already there and it's one less surgery I have to do, and the family history with ovarian cancer, we had it removed....I miss it already!

11:00pm-Dr. "There wasn't a cord around the baby, we don't know why her heart rate dropped."

11:10pm-Nurse "Your baby saved your life with this C-section, because who knew when they would have caught the mass on your ovary"

well There you have it....needless to say Sunday was a very unplanned and exciting day for The Brenton and I.

I now present to you our drama Queen!

My mom got her the mouse his name is Squeakers, she squeaks just as much as he does.

3 generations of Livingston!

This is a common look that she gives us, it's the "What are you doing?" stare


Brenton's mom with Ms. Thang!

Our little Peanut is so tiny 5 lbs 9 oz but with the cutest feet!

Ahh Yes, this girl has a set of lungs on her. The nursing staff got their share of screams from her!

I love this picture. This is right after we came back from the OR, can you just see the love in this daddy's eyes! Brenton mastered the "bundle" wrap

Their first official poopy diaper change, I did the first to show him the way, and he has picked it up very nicely! Well done!

A very drugged Jazmine, my arms were numb from the surgery, so it took some time before I actually held her. Look how swollen I am..sheesh!

I couldn't resist. This is after we got home. Brenton has been dreaming about the day when he could snuggle his little girl, and they were both out! I have the perfect family!

Confession

I have been blog stalling for MONTHS now. I have had an awesome announcement to shout to the world!!...but The Brenton put a hush order over the news until further notice... and I got that further notice today...so here we go!!!

We are getting new neighbors!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!




What? I know...how can that be good news....well our new neighbors are
Going........To..........Be..........

The OBAMAS!!

The Brenton, myself, brand new baby and Chloe are going to be

EAST-COASTERS!!!


Come this July you will find me not here


BUT Here
We are trading these guys



For This Guy



No more of this landscape



But This





See Ya Later

and
(P.S. We didn't attend either of these schools)


But We are now Proud to Be.....TERPS


TERP-short for Terripin, it's a turtle..a very ferocious and mean fighting salt water turtle that is found in the streams and rivers of Maryland...


I just told The Brenton he will be a Ninja Turtle...it's better that way!


Stay tuned to the blog, there are a lot of awesome things a comin'!!

Warning...I am bragging here

Okay so they say pregnancy gives you lame-brain right???

Well apparently lame brain works for me......

Boo-Ya!!!
But I wonder if the teachers just gave me pity points for waddling my butt to class each week....either way, I will take it!

I also want to state that the Meteorology class was online, which means that I did the assignments on the very last day they were due every time! :) Procrastination is my game!

Ingredients

This woman contains:

1- Baby girl

1-Lortab

1-Medium Size Red Mango Frozen Yogurt with mango slices YUM!!!

Thus explains the huge smile on my face!

36 Weeks! 

Story Time

It was a dark stormy night...

I awoke with cramps, weird huh? It took me a while to really realize what was going on. I got out of bed and started walking around the room, because it was a new pain to me. I soon realize, hey these could be contractions! That is contractions with a sharp constant pain in my lower left back.

I thought, "wait a min, contraction pain is supposed to go away" soooo we are talking KIDNEY STONES!!

Yup, a wonderful 5 hr stay at the hospital and many many many shots of morphine (3 to be exact) and we were feeling better. The scary part was the pain sent me into contractions that were 3 min apart..but the baby and I had a little talk, and we figured that now would not be an ideal time for her entrance....so she is still with me, and loving the drugs just about as much as I am!!!

So we are on day two of Kidney stones..AWESOME

Best Apt EVER!

The Brenton and I have lived in two apts while in our married lives...the first one was "ok" The second one "FANTASTIC"

and it started great and ended great...why you ask??

Well during the last 10 months we have had a giant rat living with us

Here is said Rat:

Her Name is Chloe, but she also goes by Chlovie, Chlo Chlo, Rat, Ru and Rufis, I have even dropped a couple Rufio's

Now this 3 yr old terror has been the best training for parenthood that I could think of...she is demanding, whiny, stubborn, mischievous, she is a garbage eater, and I have to ask her 3 times before she will do anything

One of her many talents was sticking her fat face through our metal blinds to watch us as we would walk away to our car. It was always fun to hear our blinds rattle against the window, and then turn around to see half of a lab up in them.. Which resulted in our blinds looking like



For a while we were able to repair them, bend them back and all was well, but she didn't like that too much, so she bit them, and then bit the string that pulls them up so they had to be replaced

Well funny thing is, both of these windows are not a normal measurement so you can't just go to the local hardware shop and pick up new blinds.

So The Brenton and I had come to terms with this and just figured they would take it out of our deposit. So Brenton has a walk through yesterday morning, but the guy showed up about an hour late. Apparently he was in a good mood that morning, and said the only thing he could see that was an issue..the blinds..(apparently he didn't look at the carpet or the walls because those were nasty!)

He starts to write down the order form for the blinds and says

"Well I was an hour late, don't worry about the blinds"

Hooray, we get our Deposit Back!!

The Time Has Come

Dear New Neighbors above us:

Tweet Tweet

Bark Bark

Yap

Tweet

Bark
Yap Yap Yap

Tweet Tweet Tweet Tweet

Please be aware that we have told Chloe that she has all the rights and privileges to eat any and all of your animals!
(2 DOGS! and a million birds!)

Sincerely, The Livingston Household

We are moving tomorrow so that is the only reason I haven't egged their apt!