Bringing home baby!

Here's Alivia's first picture after she was cleaned up in the nursery. I know, I know, she's the cutest baby you've ever seen... We like to think we did a good job!

Here is one of Matt's first moments with Alivia. Matt pretty much wins the best husband ever award. He stayed with Alivia from the time she came out until the time I finally got to see her. I may or may not have seen one too many Lifetime movies where babies are stolen from the hospital - so he was on strict orders to be at her side AT ALL TIMES!

And here's my mom with Alivia. I don't think I would have made it through the whole C-Section ordeal without her. She was there while I was recovering right after surgery. She stayed at the hospital overnight with us for the first two days - Best Mom Ever Award also goes out to Nance Pance. Also you can see this mohawk thing going on with Alivia's hair - the nurses claim it was a curl of some sort... Matt was just excited that they had matching faux hawks.

Okay so Alivia was freaking awesome the first night. She needed to be fed twice but then she slept for a five hour block! Then the second night came around - I think Matt and I got a total of three hours of sleep. So here's Matt the next morning. Both of them are recovering from a bit of a stressful night.

Here's a cute pic! I know you're not suppose to mess with pacifiers because of nipple confusion and what not but Alivia has zero problems with that. She happens to be the hardest sucker of all time - the lactation nurse actually laughed when she saw Alivia latch on. She had never seen a baby suck as hard as this little sucker...

Gotta have a little feet shot! Matt laughed so hard because she got my feet - there's a ginormous gap in between the first big toe and the rest. I'd like to thank my dad for passing that onto me and now poor Alivia must suffer. But it's great for flip flops!

Here's the little baby bin Alivia lived in for the first couple of days! She's so cute when she's sleeping...

And we finally came home, thank goodness. I don't like staying in the hospital - but we did have awesome nurses. As you can tell, last night was also a bit crazy, so Alivia and I caught up on some much needed sleep the second we got home.

We had to clean Alivia off today because she peed and pooped all over Matt while he was changing her (HILARIOUS) and then we put her in her first outfit ever. When I finished dressing her, I thought she looked so funny, but I couldn't stop laughing - which totally sucks with the incision. I have to do this weird creepy laugh so I don't die! She's so little - everything looks ginormous on her! It's so funny - also mittens are hilarious to me.

So Matt and I tried our hardest today to keep Alivia up so we get rid of this whole nocturnal way of life. She will not wake up for the life of me! I tried moving her around, tickling her, THE WORKS - she slept through it all. At this point I decided to sit her up to try to get her to budge but instead she just fell asleep on my hand - she's hilarious - unfortunately tonight will not be as funny!