Lazy Livin'

So Matt's "Baby Bonding" time started and he now has the next 7 weeks off - paid! So we've been having fun relaxing together and bonding with our babies. It's awesome! Here's what we've spent time doing this last week:

Here we are playing at a couple different parks. We've been to a lot of parks lately thanks to all of our free time!

This baby is already 3 weeks old! It's crazy! He's already getting huge. He loves sleeping on his tummy.

Somehow Matt got both kiddlies to look at the camera.

Livy has continued to "feed" random stuffed animals - but none of her babies. It's quite hilarious. And she doesn't do it to be funny. Matt and I will look over and all of a sudden she'll just be sitting there with her shirt up feeding Nemo and we'll ask her what she's doing and she'll say, "Nemo eating!"

Here's our cute little one after his bath. He loves to hold hands - whether they be his own or someone else's - it calms him down. He's also still going strong with the binky - it's awesome. I've never had a binky baby before!

Here's Livy checking out the ducks that chill on our front lawn. Unfortunately I thought it would be cute for Livy to feed them bread one time - ever since then, they've been sitting on our lawn waiting for more. Livy loves it. She screams DUCKS! every time we go outside.

Livy and Cos were playing in her room one night and they ran out with these little baby potato head glasses on thinking they were hilarious - and they were hilarious. These two are so funny!

Here's Livy's favorite thing to do lately. It's so funny looking! We need to get this kid back in gymnastics.

Livy loves to make sure Adam has everything he needs - even if it means giving up her favorite little penguin thing...

So I guess I was half right...

No this isn't just Livy holding her monkey. He's been placed very carefully on her chest... I said in my last post that it wouldn't be long until I caught her trying to "feed" her babies. I was half right. Today, I definitely caught her trying to breast feed - but it was her monkeys. Ha! Oh my gosh it was so hilarious!

Anyway...

Here's our cute little boy at 2 weeks. At the doctor's he weighed 8 lbs. 3 oz. and grew a half inch. The doctor said he was perfect!

Here's Liv after we went to the doctor's. She was very protective of Adam when the doctor was checking him. She almost jumped out of my arms to try to "save" him when he was crying.

Frown Face - and she kind of looks like a Helga right here - haha

Paxton taking Livy for a drive in his sweet ride

I'm not a fan of Matt getting me in this pic, but I love Adam's little face in this one.

The New Wiseman Family of Four

I can't believe it's been almost 2 weeks since little Adam joined our family. Things have been going great for us. Adam's really only been waking up once or twice at night. It's been awesome! He's been SO chill so far. He sleeps most of the day and night. Usually around 8ish - he has his alertness time of day - but he never really cries, he just looks around, trying to see things. We've definitely learned to appreciate this stage A LOT more this time around.

Livy has been so awesome with him. She loves to hold him and is always worried about what he's doing - especially when she goes down for her nap. When we've been putting her down lately - she'll ask us what Mommy, Daddy, and Adam are doing - to which I reply - everyone is taking a nap, too! She's then pleased with my answer and goes right down. It's so funny. So far, the hardest part for me has been not being able to spend one on one time with Livers. Hopefully, soon I'll get a handle on being able to divide my attention equally between these cute little ones.

Anyway, here are some cute pics that we've taken over the past couple weeks. Adam is already starting to look different - it's crazy.

Here are pics from his very first bath at home:

Okay I blurred out his little penis, but don't you love Matt's expression here? He's like - wait, what? I'm not use to this! We've also learned our lesson on moving too slowly during his diaper changes. We've been peed and pooped on about 10 times since he's gotten home. Thankfully, my friend introduced us to pee pee teepees! Thank you, Raquel!

I love this one because of Livy's "helping hand." She loves to be a part of all things dealing with Adam. I'm happy she's that way. We let her be as involved as possible so she doesn't focus on attention she might be losing.

He's just so cute!

Classic Livy Attitude Face


Here are some randoms:

"Nana" and her two grand babies. I love how Livy is showing her how to play bubbles...

Matt with our two babies. Yes, it is still so weird to us that we're a family of four.

How awesome is this little outfit!?! Unfortunately, he only got to wear it once - we tried it on him again yesterday and he had grown out of it! What!?!

She loves holding her brother, "Ayam." We've been working on getting her to pronounce the D.

And here we have the classic Matthew glare that both kids have inherited! He is constantly glaring at us! It's so funny. I'm going to be seeing this look from Matt and my babies for the rest of my life...

Here's Livy - again involved in everything. She especially loves to help out with diaper changes - mainly because she tries to sneak the Desitin away so she can hide it and then rub it all over herself when she's all alone.

Gabrielle holding cute little Adam.

She likes us to swaddle her babies just like we swaddle Adam. Also, it's been hilarious teaching her about breast feeding. She'll point to my chest and say milk and I'll say - yep - Adam's milk. And then she'll lift her shirt up and point and say milk! Then I had to explain that only mommies have milk, she still refuses to accept that. I'm just waiting to catch her trying to "feed" her babies...

Livy's been loving her visitors:

Here she is with Gabrielle - her favorite cousin!

Max!

Livy loved having Grandma "Shewwie" over. It was hilarious. She would only refer to her as Shewwie. She loved the constant attention.

Adam's first legit bath!

This little thing fell off way sooner than Livy's did and so of course we had to document the big event.

He definitely enjoyed this type of bath much more than the sponge bath! He's like Livy, she loved to have hot water - not just warm. Once he was dipped into his own little hot tub - he was perfectly content.

Cute little bugger!

The Arrival of our Sweet Little Boy

This is the story of how Adam got here (at least the birth part, you don't need to know the rest), so if you don't feel like reading it just go down and look at the pictures.

I (Alexis) am only going to tell the first part of Adam's story because frankly, I was so drugged up by the end that I can barely recall any details.

So we showed up at the hospital to get induced at 7 AM. They hooked me up to a monitor and found out I was contracting on my own which was an awesome sign. So we were all very excited. So instead of hooking me up to pitocin, my doctor decided to break my waters and see if that did anything. What a great experience... I then felt like I was peeing my pants for the next two hours. Anywho, the contractions weren't getting super strong, so they decided to give me just a teeny bit of pitocin. The contractions started to to get more painful and more painful (Also these were the first real contractions I had ever felt - FYI) so they decided to give me the epidural. This is where it starts to get fuzzy so Matt will tell it from here...


The anesthesiologist came in and got set up. He then had Alexis sit on the edge of the bed and arch her back as much as she could. He had a really hard time sticking the needle through her spine; it seriously took him like 10 minutes. Once he got it in and hooked her up to the drugs, we waited for it to kick in. Her whole right side got super numb but she was still in tons of pain on the left. They had her change positions, and the anesthesiologist came back in and messed with the positioning of the epidural like 3 times...still lots of pain. He decided to pull it out and start over. This time he went up a little on the spine and upped the intensity of the drugs. It worked. Alexis got super numb and started feeling really weird. Let the worry begin. Her ears started ringing and she was super dizzy, so the nurse sprang into action and hooked her to the oxygen. After the epidural kicked in, the contractions slowly started to get stronger and stronger. At this point Alexis was dilated to like a 4. The contractions were getting stronger and stronger and closer and closer together. This is when the nurse started getting kind of nervous. Each time there was a contraction, Adam's heart rate would drop significantly. It got to point where the contractions were like a minute apart and the heart rate was not having time to get back to normal. This is when Dr. Haskins came back. She checked Alexis and she was dilated to a 7, and she presented us with some options. We could either get a c-section, or they could give Alexis a drug to stop her uterus from contracting for like a half hour and give Adam's heart rate a chance to get back to normal. We opted to go for the drug and hopefully avoid the c-section. The contractions stopped, and right on cue the heart rate went back to normal. We were hopeful. Like 3 minutes later the heart rate started to drop again. Dr. Haskins rushed in and started ordering people around; it was time for the c-section. They wheeled Alexis to the OR to get her prepped and left me alone; they said to wait for someone to come get me. I waited, and waited, and waited. It felt like 10 minutes and I thought for sure they had forgotten. Finally they came and got me. Alexis was laying on the table with a sheet blocking the view just below her neck. They started cutting at 2:02 PM and at 2:05 PM they announced that Adam was born. Like 15 seconds later we heard him make his first sound and we could finally breath.

As it turns out Alexis' uterus had ruptured at the scar from the previous c-section, which is super rare and super dangerous. The Dr. said it was hanging on by a thread and that we were really lucky we got him out when we did. She reinforced the old wound and the new one and they wheeled Alexis back into the room where Adam and I were sitting to recover.

So that is the story of Adam's birth. It was a pretty traumatic experience, but we are still glad we tried for the "natural birth" (I know, easy for me to say but Alexis agrees). Next time it will have to be a planned c-section for sure. At least we will get to pick the music.

Here are the pictures.

Livy wasn't super patient with the whole hospital thing. She was banished after about an hour.

I just like this picture because Alivia said "Daddy, picture!" and then she posed like this.

7 lbs 13 oz, 20.5 in


First time Alexis was able to hold the new baby.

Livy's first encounter with baby Adam.

Fathers and sons.

What a cute little monkey.

"Yook Daddy! Ayam's nose!"

Livy is figuring out how to smile in pictures. She is trying to make sure we still think she is cute. It is working.

Nose.

After refusing to look at him the day he was born, Livy was super excited to see him and hold him the next day.

Can't get enough of that little guy.


Best friends forever. Also Livy seems HUGE now.

Good times.

This is what we came home to. Thanks Nana and Livy!

The End