Look at that FACE!!!!

Oh my little man!!! YOU ARE TOO CUTE!!!!

Joseph's first day out...

Joey had his first day out... we had a dr. appt. If you notice, we forgot to put the little head support thing on the carseat. I had a panic attack thinking he was going to break his neck. He didn't. :-)


His first restaurant. I was STARVING, so we stopped. He slept the whole time! You may notice the head support in the picture.... Can you say paranoid.

Visitors

Joseph has had lots of visitors, some we didn't get pictures with... I am trying to get better with the whole camera thing.

Brian...
His wife Heather. Joe has been good about grabbing the camera.

Grandma

Uncle Bro

Sydni, his 3rd cousin

Great grandma

Cousin Missy

Mike

Jess

Grandpa

Thank you everyone for coming to visit us. We love the company and we are excited for Joseph to meet the rest of his family and friends.

Holy Crap We Had a BABY!!!!!

I can't believe it...! All the fun started at 4 am on Saturday feb 7th. I got up for the normal morning pee... and didn't stop. I "leaked" for 5 hours!!!!!! So gross! Anyway, got checked in at 5:30....I had to shower, shave, clean the bathroom, make the bed...etc. before going to the hospital. I was in no hurry.

So after a quick exam, they decided to induce me at 7:30, even though my water broke, they wanted to hurry along the process. At about 2:00 I was having STRONG contractions about 2 min apart, but I was only dilated to a 3. The nurse, as sweet as she was, decided to "make" me a 4. She OPENED me while having a contraction. Lets just say I was crawling off the bed b/c it f-ing hurt! But, within 30 min I was feeling fantastic. LOVE the epidural!

Joseph was born at 6:07 pm on Saturday. What an experience! Here are some pics from the day.


Waiting for the fun to begin. I had a full room, both parents, Joe's mom and sister, Ryan and Ryan were around waiting for the big event. But as soon as the nurse said we are going to start pushing, everyone cleared except for my mom and Joe.
This is him right after being born.

This is us in the special care unit. Joey had what they call "grunts." Very medical term I know, but this was around 10 pm, the first time that I was able to see him. If you are not familiar with grunts, it is a condition where the 2 things have happend. 1) the baby aspirated fluid or poop and has it in their lungs and with every breath they make a grunting sound. They need to be monitored very closely as they can develop an infection and then pnemonia.

It was sooo sad to see some of these babies here. As you can see he had wires everywhere. I did a good job of not getting upset. It was just weird to give birth to a baby and not know what it looked like. Joe's sister was able to take a bunch of pics for me and that was actually the first time I could see him. Joe was able to take family 1 at a time to the 'nic u" as they call it, so she took about a hundred pics. ( she is a photographer and had her fancy camera that snaps pics really fast.)

This was the next day in the special care unit. He had to spend the night, the next day and then that night there...I was upset by this time. I wanted to have my baby with me. The Neonatal dr. finally agreed to let him come with us to our room, but we had to agree to stay in the hospital for another 24 hours. Of course we did, but we were told around 6 pm that night that he had to spend the night back in special care. That is when I lost it. They did bring him every 3 hours to nurse. Thank god I was nursing otherwise we wouldn't have seen him.

In our hospital room.

Buffalo Kisses

The other night in bed.....

Me: Good night babe, love you..

Joe: Good night babe, love you too..

Me: Ugh... toss..ugh...toss...ahhhhh......Finally!

1 minute later

Joe: BABE, do you still have that water???!

Me: Yes, but you are going to have to reach it b/c I JUST got comfortable.

Joe: (reaching across me, squishing me) gulp...gulp...gulp....ahhh

Me: GROSS! Your hairy armpit is in my FACE!!! YUCK!

Joe: What, it was a buffalo kiss.

me: WTF??!!

both of us: Night babe.

Nothing new

Well....Had my dr. appt. on Monday. Same old news....

1cm dilated
cervix is "thinner" :-(
baby heart beat... 140 something
Mommy weight.....down 1 lb!!! :-)

That was the good news... Oh and the best part, after waiting for almost 2 HOURS!!! My dr. had a student with her..... you know what that means....... double the fun! nothing like 2 hands checking the cervix....

Whata ya gonna do? And...I was informed, she is with my dr. for 6 weeks....HA! I told her I would see her next week! :-)

Also, on Monday, we had our breast feeding class... or as Joe called it, the Boobie party. I think he was a little disappointed when all the boobs he saw on the video were huge and black. LOL! I was amused.

Oh, and get this.... so at the break from the "boobie party" naturally I have to go to the bathroom. Well the closest or only bathroom that I know is a 1 stall bathroom. Let me fully describe this bathroom. Ok, there is the big door to go in, with no lock... yes, no lock. and once you're in, there is a sink, and then a 1 toilet stall, very small bathroom. I have used this bathroom before, so I told Joe to stand outside the door b/c the door didn't lock.

He does. So this is how this next part goes....

Me: hovering the best I can....

Door: creeeaaaakkkk.....

Me: (inside my head) WTF!!??? Didn't I tell him to watch the f@#$ing door???!

LADY:... checking herself out in the mirror...

*you may want to know how I know she is checking herself out in the mirror if I am in a stall?? BECAUSE the gap between the stall door and the stall is like an inch wide!!!!!!!!!!!

Me: wipe, flush, zip, click.... "OH EXCUSE ME!!!! Let me get out of YOUR way!"

US: trying to slide past each other in the teeny tiny bathroom with 37 week pregnant bellies.....

Lady: unzip, peeing

Me: grumbling...stupid b*^&$!

Me: What the Hell JOE!!! I ASKED you to watch the door!

Joe: Babe I did! She gave me attitude and said, " ugh, I have been in this bathroom before, THANKS!"

What's up with that.... you would think he could have like...body blocked her. lol People are so f-ing WEIRD!!!!!

That's it, that's all I got! :-)

kids are funny

This is just a funny conversation that went on today during class....

Mrs. S: (fumbling with a book AND a white board marker) Oh geeze, whoops.... darn it!

class: Mrs. Scimeca, you have green marker on your shirt!

Mrs. S: Yes, yes I do, lets hope it comes out in the wash.

Dionte: (standing up addressing the class)...NO, IT'S ON HER BABY!!!!

Mrs.S: Yes, you're right, it is on the baby.