Funny little things

So, I have not had time to add pictures, I have saved a rough draft with more pictures but its not done yet... But I wanted to add these funny little sayings before I forgot them all.

Here are some funny things that have been heard around our house since the baby has been born.

Niyah:
BIG SIGH " she sure does eat a lot"

Harley:
pulling stolen Breast pads out of her shirt " I'm seeing what it feels like to be a mom."

For the record my female chest has earned the name milks and nibbles..... I can't even say anything to that

Niyah:
looking very thougthful at the table, "Mom, why don't I have big nibbles." I chuckled and answered "don't worry you will as you grow older your body will change." Takes a bite of food big pause looking thoughtful again " mom are you older then Dad?" I answer "no, dad is older then me" "oh" She says, small pause " well then WHY doesn't Dad have big nibbles??" HAHAHA answer that one with a straight face

Neighbor girl named Valeria who talks a lot and very quickly:
She is over playing the baby is fussing I am trying to feed her discretly, I don't like to flash neighbor children. "Its ok" She says "My mom feeds our baby so I've seen them, I mean you know, I know what a mommy looks like there, so its ok if I see yours, because I know all mommy's things are the same, except maybe grandma's I don't know WHAT they look like...."

and the best has been from both Harley and Niyah:
EEEW MOM SHE PEED ON ME!

I am sure there has been more but I can't remember them all already. Enjoy a laugh though I did.

The Chain of Love -

My friend Maggie had this on her blog, which I love to look at, and thought hey it could be fun! Besides I want to see what Maggie will come up with for me.......
So here is what I copied and pasted:

The first five people to respond to this post will get something made by me! My choice. For you.This offer does have some restrictions and limitations:
1. I make no guarantees that you will like what I make for you!
2. What I create will be just for you.
3. It'll be done this year.
4. You have no clue what it's going to be. It may be a song. It may be a self portrait or maybe even some creation I haven't yet dreamed up. I may draw. I may bake you something and mail it to you. It may not be big or impressive. Who knows? Not you, that's for sure! But lets be honest here. This is me and I will likely do something amazing. =) So come on, sign up!
5. I reserve the right to do something extremely strange.

The catch? Oh, the catch is that you must re-post this on your blog and offer the same to the first 5 people who do the same on your blog. The first 5 people to post this same blog on their blog and leave a comment telling me they did will win a FAB-U-LOUS homemade gift by me! Let's keep the chain of love going around!!

So here is my own impute.... I will not be drawing you anything.... trust me you would feel cheated. and I have to say... I might not "make" your surprise it is far more likely that it will be bought. It will be something bought with interest and thought though. I do however strongly hold to the it may be extremely strange..... We went shopping at this Japanese store the other day and strange is always a fun option...... :) SO if you think it sound fun give it a try, if not at least I'll get something from Maggie.

The first two weeks

I can't believe it I have had Genevieve for two weeks tomorrow. Already time is flying by.

The first two weeks where great!! My healing time with this baby was simply amazing when compared with my other two. Did I say I loved my Doctor. He was much more into letting things happen naturally and not cutting a person open to get the baby out faster. Let me tell you it made my healing a whole different story. Also Jeb had "paternity" leave. Ten days off to stay with me and the girls. What a blessing that was! Here is a look at what has went on these last two weeks.

Niyah has really mastered her bike riding. She raced her dad round and round the little park. She loved that her Dad was able to come out and race her. Harley loved it to but it was new to Niyah because at first bike riding was difficult. Now she keeps up with the biggest kid of all. :)

An interesting event Mt. Asama erupted. Its a little ways away. The picture is from http://www.zimbio.com/pictures/4oNQpWx0ElS/Mt+Asama+Erupts/Kk_haLWksxe

We woke up to ourselves covered in ash. Schools were shut down and the roads had to be swept of ash. Not to worry we were never in any danger. I still thought it was kind of neat to be near enough to a volcano eruption to get covered in ash.

Look footprints in the ash

Harley wanted to keep the ash... I however said no, where would we keep ash?

Otherwise we mostly hung around, relaxed and held the baby. She does not really like to be put down, and since we love to hold her her wish has been granted around 99% of the time.

This was her first day out of the house, we went to the store. Isn't the outfit cute!

Despite all the binky's around her, she doesn't really like them all that much. She thinks that her mom should act like a binky. We are working on that.


She is very bright eyed

Look she does cry!

This is the look she gives us when we try to wake her up and she doesn't want to..... grrrrr

The girls ask every time I need to change a diaper if they can do it. I don't understand why they are not convinced that it is a yucky job, but they were thrilled when I let them try with a wet only diaper. They are however very good at picking out outfits for her whenever opportunity arises.

They always want to hold her and the only fighting has been over how often they can and who gets to go first.

We did take one big trip on Saturday to a navy base Yokuska. It is about 2 hours away. It was nice to see some different sights, see the ocean, and I was able to buy myself some pants! This picture was just outside the navy base.

Lots of love from the sisters

This was her first Sunday dress. She was so good at church.

Well that is our first two weeks in a nut shell. She is growing, her doctor appointment showed her at 7 lbs. 5 ounces. Already getting to big. Just like my other two darlings, the time slips by to fast.

The Birth Story

So we have been blessed with Genevieve for over a week now and I am finally sitting down to post about her birth. Truthfully I don't like to put her down long enough to sit and blog but I felt I had better catch up.

So we waited and waited for our little girl to come. Everyone was so anxious for her arrival. I was still having contractions but never enough. So life went on as we waited,

Niyah snuggled with her Dad

Harley was given a pink belly.

Jeb had his Birthday, HAPPY BIRTHDAY! I really thought she would come on his birthday, but no, all he received was a chocolate cake..... and a new lantern for camping.

Till finally on Weds. January 28th the doctor decided to induce me, (just short of two weeks over again!) SO we went into the hospital at 5:00 AM.

(here I am, at the hospital, baby still in)

The girls were taken to some wonderful people in our branch, we had many people volunteer to help us out. The went to the Anderson's in the morning, the Salmons in the afternoon.

So at the hospital at five, of course it took awhile for them to set me up, make me sign papers, put me in the bed, insert the IV and then we waited for the doctor to arrive. Then he came talked to us about all the possibilities of birth. I had to sign more papers agreeing that I understand things that could happen in birth, (I had to sign that I understood there would be pain, who knew????) Needless to say I found the paper work amusing.

After all that though the doctor left, he told them to start my pitosin which of course took them a while longer to finalize. So between 8:30 and 9:00 I began my pitosin, meaning I started labor.

It was good and intense, it progressed quickly. At one point around 11:30 I told them I was going to need to push they said no you are only at a 5 or 6. This discouraged me because there was a lot of pain. At this point they gave me the drug (I don't know its name) that is meant to calm you down, and make you sleepy. It was nice because I rested between contractions Not that I had many left.

At 12:00 however Jeb was in the bathroom and I said JEBBB! Tell them to come check me I am going to push. The nurse came in (she was great by the way) and said OH! yep thats a baby head. With lots of hair, I'll go call the doctor. From there my memory is slightly delirious. All of the sudden the doctor was there and he said it was ok for me to push. So I did. Funny part the nice nurse said to me, she just right there, why don't you reach down and feel her head..... I said no, she asked me again on the next push and I snapped pretty loud NO! In my head I thought oh that was rude she was trying to be nice. So I then quickly added, but thank you for asking. Jeb says the nurse and doctor looked at each other laughing, and said "but thank you for asking?????" they thought I was pretty funny because as they said "I was so polite the whole time." The nurse even said you were so amazing, your mother would be proud... hmmm ok.

Then at 12:18 Genevieve was born!

So labor didn't take to long, and the doctor was great! It was probably my best delivery.

Shortly afterwards, we brought over the girls to see her. They were so excited.

Jeb changing the 2nd diaper, a nurse changed the first one.

So on Thursday afternoon we were able to bring her home!

Here is her cradle by our bed. I love this cradle it rocks and she loves it too.

Sleepy angel.