My arms have a break! Time to write...

I have not been very good at keeping up with this blog lately. Before having Lily, I thought that I would have more then enough time to accomplish many projects and tasks during my maternity leave that I had placed on hold while I was busy with work. Wow, was I wrong! Being a mom is really time consuming, especially when your child does not want you to put them down and would just like to eat and cuddle with you all day. Oh well, I'd rather cuddle anyways!

Some things that have happened this past month are:

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  The Family, minus Daniel and Gary's families

  
  

  

  Wish we could look as attractive as Andrew and Whitney. lol!

  Andrew and Whitney got married! My little brother got married to a wonderful girl who managed to wait two years while Andrew was serving his mission to marry him. They had a beautiful sealing, and wedding reception and I know that they will have a happy life together. Here are some photos from the event. My brothers came down for the wedding. David for the sealing, and Daniel and Gary for the reception in Sierra Vista. I really miss having my brothers around. They are so awesome.
• Lily accomplished a few firsts this past month. She had her first bath, which she loved until it ended. She went on her first outing with mommy and daddy, going on a 4 mile walk at Meet Me at Maynards which we do every Monday. Lily is now starting to notice things and people. She recognizes me when I hold her, which melts my heart! She will smile at me and snuggle between my arm and breast...pretty much my favorite thing in the world! Her grammy Ontiveros got to watch her while Mark and I spent the day together...and I cried...I missed her to much! She had her first night alone with Mark while I went to the Hunger Games premier with a group of friends. Mark did an amazing job watching her and managed to get her to sleep a whole 6 hours! I was very impressed. Lily also managed to have her first explosive diaper (which actually happened today)...and luckily it was mark who was holding her at the time. It was pretty dang funny, especially because mark thought it was sweat at first until I told him it was poop. Our little lady is growing fast, and I am not looking forward to returning to work and leaving her...but at least mark will take good care of her.

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  Lily's first bath!

  
  

  

  Lily's first outing with parents, she loved it despite what the picture says.
  

  
  

  

  I love my little snuggler!

  
  

  

  I just can't get enough of her.

I got to see the hunger games...twice. First was the midnight showing with a group of friends from church. We made shirts that turned out pretty sweet and got to enjoy the anticipation of waiting 3 hours till the movie started. The second time I saw it was with Mark and his friend Jonathan. I was worried that they would not like it and make fun of it the whole time, but luckily they liked it. And so did I! In fact I loved it. I felt they did a great job of depicting the characters and adding in only the important pieces of the book. And I loved how they focused on the arena and not so much on the love triangle aspect. Of course there are always going to be things you wish they would have put in the movie based on the book, but if they had, it would have been a 4 hour movie. I also loved the girl who played Katniss, she managed to keep her character as badass as she is depicted in the books. I am excited to see it again.

Not much else has happened other then these things. Lily will be blessed on Easter, so we are looking forward to that, and the county fair is coming up...so we've got some fun stuff to look forward to.

Parenthood Thus Far...

Is wonderfully different.
We are loving our little Lily. She is the cutest little girl, and has me laughing all the time with her cute little facial expressions, poses while sleeping and sounds she makes when looking around. I love spending all day with her and I can see that returning to work in 8 weeks will be difficult.
I am supposed to be in house recovering for 6 weeks with Lily, but I think I would go crazy if I never left. The first full day from the hospital, Lily and I spent all day in the apartment. By the end of the day I was crying about everything! I cried harder then I think I ever have in my life. It was the whole 'dry heave' type of cry and it was over mark not agreeing with me about something. I felt so weird inside and felt like I was loosing my mind. So, needless to say, I have to get out daily in order to keep my sanity.
Lily only sleeps in bed with mark and I because she wants to be cuddled all the time. We have gone through two cradles, swaddlers and a moby wrap to find a solution to her sleeping by herself...but we have given in to her demands and she now sleeps in bed with us. I don't actually sleep at night though for fear that Mark might roll over her in his sleep...but with three weeks of accident free sleeping, I think we will be okay.
The little girl was not gaining any weight, which had me freaking out. Looks like I am not producing all the calories she needs from breast milk, so we are using formula as well. At first I was sad that I could not produce what she needed, but I am grateful now that she is gaining weight.
Mark and I spent the day with each other all day yesterday and Lily's Grammy Ontiveros babysat her. Mark is so wonderful for wanting to take me out of the house to spend time together, he is always finding ways to make me happy. I did cry when we gave Lily to Grammy, and I cried when we went to pick her up from marks parents house and they were not home yet...so yes, I did not like leaving my baby. But, I miss my alone time with Mark, and I loved spending time with him yesterday. I love him very very much!
Overall, parenthood is fun and is teaching me a lot. But, I am also realizing just how hard it actually is! I used to think stay at home moms were only being dramatic when they talked about how much work goes in to staying home with your kids, but they were right! I don't know how I am going to balance child, spouse, work and my own desires. But I guess I don't really have a choice, huh?

Welcome to Life Lily Naomi Ontiveros!

Lily Naomi Ontiveros was born February 19th 2012 at 4:55 pm. She weighed 8 lbs 3 oz, 19 inches, has lots of dark hair and is the most beautiful girl in the entire world!!

I was induced on Sunday at 7:30am because I was dialted to a 4, but my contractions were staying 45 minutes apart. The labor experience was not as bad as I thought it would be! I did not feel any contractions till I was dilated to an 8 and 100% effaced. They gave me the epidural which only worked on my right side, so I felt everything on the left side of my body...which hurt. But did not hurt as bad as I thought it would. I pushed for an hour and she was out! I definitely worried about it way to much, but I think that is what helped me to think it was not as bad as it was. I could definitely do it again.

We are so happy to have our sweet little Lily in our lives. She is our joy and makes us feel like a complete family. Mark loves his little princess and talks to her often about avoiding boys and staying daddy's little girl forever. Lily and I enjoy our time together...even though she likes to keep mommy up all night long and always wants to cuddle with us in the middle of the night. I wouldn't trade it for the world. She loves to cuddle with her mommy and daddy, and she is so soft and hardly ever cries. We feel like she has been apart of our lives forever and is not a stranger to us. I never thought I could love someone as much as Mark, but looks like I was wrong.

Pictures of the Hospital event:

Mark holding his baby girl

My two loves

Aunt Anna, she helped me so much during the delivery

Lily and her Amma

Lily and her Grammy

getting weighed

had to cover the privates!

love!

When she was given to me after delivery, sorry for the grafic nature, but it was the most beautiful thing I have ever experienced in my life!

My angel with her mommy

Mark was so sweet while I was in labor, he was the best coach!

My sister giving me a message on my feet. Actually helped speed up my contractions.

bottom line are my contractions...man, those are no fun!

A Clear Sign...Please???

So this week has been interesting. I think it was a bad idea for the doctor to tell me I could have the baby this week. Because that is all I've been thinking about!

This morning I went to the hospital thinking that my water broke. After a few hours of testing, turns out it was a false alarm and my water is still in tact. Baby is doing great and head down. The exact verbage from the nurse was, 'wow, her head is really far down!' all I could think was, 'then why dosen't she come out already!'

I am now dialated to 3cm, but am not contracting enough to have the baby yet. Mark and I got to see an ultrasound of the baby, apparently I have a lot of amniotic fluid ( which is good). So if my water breaks, then I will know. I think the baby is going to be bald. I did not see any hair in the ultra sound...but she has a very cute nose!

Whenever I ask someone 'how will I know if I am having a baby?' and the response I get is 'oh, you'll know'. I hate this response! I thought I knew that I was in labor this morning, but again, I was not. I just want a clear sign...actually, a literal sign would be nice, one that says 'hey andrea, you're having a baby right now!'

I am sure that when it happens, I really will know. But for now, it is sure frustrating. Something that the nurse informed me, was when you are having contractions so hard you can hardly talk through them, that is when you are ready to come it. Best advice yet!



Valentines with a Hottie

We had a great Valentines day and no baby came! We asked her to wait until after Valentine's Day to come. She was kind enough to oblige.

We went to a nice restaurant called Maynards. We had lobster and caviar, and because Mark is still on his diet I got to eat all the chocolate cake! My only excuse is that the baby wanted it. It was a very romantic setting and a really nice dinner.

 Mark got a new outfit to wear to dinner and he looked amazing! I am so proud of him and how much weight he has lost, he has lost about 45 pounds! He is looking so good and I can't stop looking at him... even though I couldn't stop looking at him before :)

We then came home and opened up our valentines present. Mark got the Kobe Bryant shoes he wanted, and I got roses and gift certificate to Gadabout salon to use to pamper myself after the baby is born. Mark is such a wise husband!

It was a wonderful Valentine's Day and I am so happy to be married to Mark. He is such a thoughtful and wonderful husband, and makes me feel so special. I have been feeling very unattractive lately because I am getting so pregnant and Mark is looking so good and losing so much weight, it is making me feel like he deserves a better looking wife who is just as healthy looking as he is. But whenever I feel that way, without asking Mark tells me how beautiful and attractive I am. The other day he told me that I am easy to love because life is better when I am around, that made me feel good. :) I love him more than anything in this world, and so proud to be his wife! I can't wait to have the baby so we can be a family!

Isn't he hadsome!

Me with my lobster...Yum!

I love flowers

My Valentines love. Yay for consumerisum!

Playing the Waiting Game

I'm going to attempt to write this using my iPhone because Mark stole the computer and I have no way of writing, but I don't write now I never will. So I am now 38 weeks and I had my doctors appointment on Thursday everything looks good. I am actually dilated to a two and have a 50-50 chance of going next week or before my due date. My doctor actually says I can go this weekend but I don't believe it, that would be too good to be true! I am so anxious for her to come the fear is almost gone. I've been having dreams lately that she is a boy, it is really freaking me out! I have all girly clothes and no boy clothes. If it is a boy I will choke the lady who did my ultrasound...lol. I am also hoping that she does not come on Valentine's Day that would ruine all future Valentine's Day dates! Speaking of love Valentine's Day and all that stuff, I have the worst dream last night it made me so sad! I dreamt that Mark told me he was homosexual and not attracted to me, but that he wanted to live with me as his best friend but he wasn't in love with me like a husband should love his wife. I think it's a sign I have been watching too many lifetime shows! Mark got a kick out of it, he even came up with a new song call "I love pee-pees not booby's... that's the last time I will tell him one of my dreams. Lol. Overall everything is good just waiting and waiting and waiting. Hopefully my next post will be an announcement at the baby coming. I am predicting next Friday! Yay!

Baby Shower pt.2

More photos from the baby shower.

We played a few games, one of which was guessing what food was on the baby wipe. I was really hoping that my sister would have used a real used poopie wipe, just to through us all off...guess she is nicer then me :)

This awesome diaper cake was made by my very talented friend Tina.

I was a little to excited about this baby Einstein toy...actually, I was just having a hard time pronouncing the names of the composers on the label.

My mommy loves to kiss the baby.

Nacole was demonstrating how my baby wrap works. I don't know how the baby is going to breath pressed up against my bosoms...bet mark wishes he could be in that sling ( sorry.) haha!

My mom was in charge of the food, she did an awesome job of listening to everything I wanted. hehe

Just some of the people I love most in this world

Very important present. Mark and I could not have a child that did not sport vikings gear! We just need a little U of A cheerleader outfit and we are good.

Tina is ready to finally be a grammy!

The Mommy to be.

My sister was in charge of the program and games. I love her and all her effort to be creative in the games.

Love the monkey blanket!

Grammy and Amma with the baby cocoon. I am excited to have them in the delivery room with mark and I, cause we are going to need some hand holding!

Just two more weeks! I go on leave from work on the 20th, due date is the 21st. I am really hoping I do not go in to labor during the work week...but I am getting pretty desperate for her to exit. Mark and I can't wait to meet her and to be parents. Even if it will be challenging. She is already a true blessing to our little family.