All About My First Baby

So I did this on FB and I want to have it documented on the blog. Feel free to copy and paste if you want to remember this as well. (Paste with your own answers, unless you really want to remember my memories... kind of weird, but I won't judge...)

All About My First Baby

Posted on Wednesday, February 4, 2009 at 8:31am.

1. WAS YOUR FIRST PREGNANCY PLANNED?: Yes. We went off the BC thinking it would take months but we couldn't be more wrong. The next WEEK I was preggo.

2. WERE YOU MARRIED AT THE TIME?: Yep, we had almost made it to the year mark.

3. WHAT WERE YOUR REACTIONS?: Matt and I didn't say anything to each other for an entire minute. Then we got really hyper (it was like 1 in the morning) and we made a home movie to record our reactions. The movie somehow ended with Matt doing a munchkin dance on his knees... hilarious!

5. HOW OLD WERE YOU?: I was 20 when I got pregnant and barely 21 when I had Livy. And yes, people continue to ask how old I am when I take Livy around.

6. HOW DID YOU FIND OUT YOU WERE PREGNANT?: Matt brought home a pregnancy test and then I told him I was going to take it when he was at work. (I had my reasons.) So he then bribed me by saying that if I take the test and it's positive - he would take me to IHOP. So I took the test and then Matt and I left the test in the bathroom for 3 minutes because in the movies they never look at the test - you have to leave it alone. So then we went back into the bathroom and BAM! I was with child.

7. WHO DID YOU TELL FIRST?: I think we told Matt's sister, Amy, and my friend, Michelle first.

8. DID YOU WANT TO FIND OUT THE SEX?: Uh yeah! In fact, I made Matt take me to Fetal Studios in the mall at 15 weeks (the earliest you can tell the sex) and I got an ultra sound from a "doctor" who claimed he was an OBGYN in Europe. Whatev, he told us we were having a girl and his story checked out 5 weeks later.

9. DUE DATE?: April 6th, 2008 - a very holy date. We could tell from there she was going to be pretty religious... Also that was conference weekend. Super holy.

10. DID YOU HAVE MORNING SICKNESS?: I wanted to die pretty much every morning. I worked at 7 in the morning at the time, so I would wake up, shower, puke, try to eat something, and then puke if I attempted to eat and then Matt would take me to school and drop me off. I lost 15 pounds that first trimester.

11. WHAT DID YOU CRAVE?: I don't remember. I crave things when I'm not pregnant and then I don't crave anything when I am. For the first little while I craved philly cheese steak sandwiches from the Italian Plance. Mmmm.

12. WHO/WHAT IRRITATED YOU THE MOST?: Matt's smell, sorry babe. And I was always freaking itchy at night. It was horrible.

13. WHAT WAS YOUR FIRST CHILD'S SEX?: Girl!

14. DID YOU WISH YOU HAD THE OPPOSITE SEX OF WHAT YOU WERE GETTING?: I did at the time. I have all brothers and girls really scare me. Plus I am not looking forward to freaking Hannah Montana phases and junior high and high school all over again. Bleh! But I learned that having a little girls is pretty awesome.

15. HOW MANY POUNDS DID YOU GAIN?: I think around 25 - 30ish.

16. DID YOU HAVE BABY SHOWERS?: Yep. It turned out to be fun, but I don't ever want another one again.

17. WAS IT A SURPRISE OR DID YOU KNOW?: I knew.

18.DID YOU HAVE ANY COMPLICATIONS DURING YOUR PREGNANCY?: Yes. I was induced 3 days after the due date and after 11 hours of labor I wasn't dilated all the way yet, but the placenta started to detach, which isn't suppose to happen until after she's out. So I was losing a ton of blood and Livy was swallowing a ton of blood. So we had to do an emergency C-section. Everything turned out okay in the end.

19. WHERE DID YOU GIVE BIRTH?: American Fork Hospital where me and my brothers were all born.

20. HOW MANY HOURS WERE YOU IN LABOR?: 11 freaking hours.

21. WHO DROVE YOU TO THE HOSPITAL?: Matt.

22. WHO WATCHED YOU GIVE BIRTH?: Well Matt got to see Livy being taken out at the end. So he was sort of able to watch.

23. WAS IT NATURAL OR C-SECTION?: C-section - bleh!

24. DID YOU TAKE MEDICINE TO EASE THE PAIN?: Uh yeah! I never felt ONE contraction and I never will as far as I'm concerned. Yay for epidurals!

25. HOW MUCH DID YOUR CHILD WEIGH?: 7 lbs. 3 oz.

26. WHEN WAS YOUR CHILD ACTUALLY BORN?: April 9, 2008 at 6:06 p.m.

27. WHAT DID YOU NAME YOUR CHILD?: Alivia Maria Wiseman. I spelled her name with an A because I don't like O's... that's really the truth.

28. HOW OLD IS YOUR FIRST BORN TODAY?: Almost 10 freaking months!

Lovers of Loving Love Volume 4

So for every V-day, Matt makes me a new volume of the burned CD he created and named "Lovers of Loving Love." The first volume was created when we were dating. Since we were driving out here on Valentine's Day, he gave me my CD today! Woo! Here's the list of awesome songs.

(Note: Sometimes there's no love reason for the song, it's just a song we both love, just so you're not confused.)

1. Angel by Jack Johnson (Matt says this is the song he would've written me if he wrote songs. That would be way cuter if he hadn't of written a song for his old girlfriend and has yet to write one for me...)
2. Best Days by Matt White (While we were watching Scrubs I told Matt that I like this song and I wanted it on the CD and he remembered! Yes!)
3. Have it All by Jeremy Kay
4. You Found Me by The Fray (We love The Fray)
5. Sold by John Michael Montgomery (Matt refuses to believe this song was on last year's volume... YES IT WAS)
6. Stop and Stare by One Republic
7. I'm Yours by Jason Mraz (This song just makes us happy - how can it not make anyone feel happy??)
8. Just to Hear You Say that you Love Me by Tim McGraw and Faith Hill
9. Blue Eyes by Cary Brothers (Awesome song)
10. Banana Pancakes by Jack Johnson (This song explains our last year together)
11. Can't Get Enough of Your Love by Barry White (Hilarious)
12. The Way You Love Me by Faith Hill (I'm still in love with this song.)
13. To Make You Feel My Love by Garth Brooks (I've made Matt watch Hope Floats more than once...)
14. I Wanna Love You Forever by Jessica Simpson (CLASSIC! Matt threw me a bone here to his much distaste for the song.)
15. Send Her My Love by Journey (My favorite Journey song)
16. She Will Be Loved by Maroon 5
17. The Book of Love by Peter Gabriel
18. Love Will Keep Us Alive by The Eagles
19. I Knew I Loved You by Savage Garden (Another classic)
20. It's Your Love by Tim McGraw (The song we danced to at our wedding and right before we got engaged)
21. Do You Remember by Jack Johnson (Can you tell that we love Jack?)

Love you, babe, you're amazing!!!

On our honeymoon in Hawaii. Oh the good old days.

And of course, a cute picture of our little one. These days are even better.

Time to Catch Up!

It has been a freaking CRAY-ZAY couple of weeks for the Wisemans. We've finally settled in most of our apartment, so now that I have a chance to breathe, I can finally catch up on everything. Now, hold on tight 'cause here we goooooooooooo! (Little Einsteins reference, of course.)

Our first big move!!!

So during our last week of living in Utah, we had a pretty jam packed schedule. Luckily, we were able to spend a lot of time with family and friends. On Thursday, our friends, the Packs, threw us a surprise going away party and we freaking loved it. I jacked some pics from Shara's blog - thanks!

Here we have Crystal, Shayla, Cristina, and I in a very deep conversation.

This is the men's section of the party. Check out the freaking awesome decorations! Woo!

And here's Livy, Kaylee, and AveriElle playing. I love what's happening with each kid. Kaylee was the only one ready to have her picture taken and Livy's been caught trying to climb the gate to stair heaven.

Also, we got some time in with the Matthews, and Livy got to say goodbye to her future husband, Skyler. These two are so freaking cute together. They would play in church together and Livy would try to hug him. We're going to miss our Monday nights with these guys.This is what it looks like when they play together. Livy's always planning her attack. Look out, Skyler, she's after you again!

Also, Livy got to disobey us and climb these stairs for the last time! No more stairs in our apartment, sucker!

And during this week, I came home and Matt showed me this picture. I was like... cool, babe. And then I realized it was a picture of her standing on her own. She stands now! She'll even try to take steps and then wuss out.
Here's a last look at our house as it looked the morning we left - on Valentine's Day. Isn't it pretty with the snow? Go babe!

Here's Matt driving us out to CA for the second time in the last two weeks. No tickets this time babe! Woo!

And here's a look at the back of our car on the way there. Livers was tucked in amongst all of the crap. It took 13 freaking hours because of the snow in Utah that day. It was crazy, but we made it through safe thanks to many prayers! And thanks to Matt's dad coming out and driving the Uhaul!

Also, GREAT NEWS! See this gross goup eye!?!?! We haven't seen it for the last two days! Apparently, CA has healed it! Hooray!
Hopefully we'll have pics of the apartment soon once we get all settled in!

Babysitting in good old CO

I use the babysitting term lightly because my baby brother is 12 and besides having to tell the little butthead to brush his teeth in the morning, he can pretty much take care of himself. So basically, it was me and Livy staring at each other all day long saying "What d'you do want to do?" "I don't know, what d'you want to do?" (Jungle Book reference, the vultures, it's hilarious if you know what I'm talking about...)

Here's Livy with Ky. She bonded with him during that week. When he would come home from school, she would get so excited! I guess he made up for Matt being gone. Everytime we got on iChat to talk to him, she would try to reach through the computer to him.

I did learn some things about the grasp that Livers has on the English language. Apparenly, we haven't been teaching her what the word NO actually means.

For example...

I said: "Livy, don't touch those diapers."Livy's translation: "Take down all of the diapers and start chewing on them."

I said: "Livy, don't go up those stairs."Livy's translation: "Climb up all of the stairs and look back at me to make sure I'm watching you deliberately disobeying me."

Also, while we were there, my mom handed me this big bag of awesome bows that this person in her ward randomly made me. They were so freaking cute! Here's some pigtail awesomeness. The green ones I made, but the red ones the other lady made.

Just stuffing my wedding ring into her mouth... no biggie.

Here's another trick Livy picked up while I wasn't watching. She then got up and tried to climb up on the top level. Oh dear.

Looking for a place to live and a job...

Matt and I went out to CA looking for some basic necessities, an apartment, a job, no biggie. We stayed with Matt's brother, Luke. Livers had so much fun with her cousins. She loves them. Here's Cal. This kid is famous for slyly asking "What's this?" while picking up any random electronic device. That's his way in. It's so funny. Any time Matt was there, he would immediately ask to play "Penguins" on his iphone. He ended up teaching Matt how to play that game...

Here's Gabrielle. Livy loves playing with her. It's so cute. After we had been out one day looking at places, we came back to Luke's and Gabrielle told Andrea that she thinks that Livy really missed her that day. It was true.

Livy, who's your favorite cousin??

Also, while we were there, Livy freaking pulled a laptop on top of herself. Luckily, this was the only battle wound. This kid freaking climbs up and gets into everything!!!
And we finally caught her weird OHHHHH thing on camera. It's so funny. She says the word Oh and holds it out for a really long time while using a weird smoker voice. So freaking hilarious.

Where in the world are the Wisemans!?!

Okay so we got home Monday night around 11 from Mississippi. Then we took off to Sacramento on Tuesday morning. What!?!? I know, I still can't believe we did it. But we made it! All thanks to this...A forward facing car seat! I know she's suppose to be one, but she weighs 20 pounds and we were not about to make the 10 hour drive twice without this! It was awesome. She loved it.

So now we're in CA checking out apartments and Matt's going to job interviews and whatnot. Next week I'll be in Denver and then the week after that we'll be packing up all of our crap and making the final move. AHHHHH!!! We're stoked, though. We're just not too stoked about an 8 hour drive and then another 10 hour drive with Livy... Bleh!

Fun in Mississippi

Get ready for the longest post ever... So the Wisemans have been freaking all over the country this past week. First, we went to Mississippi to see Matt's best friend, Jefferson, graduate from fighter pilot training in the Air Force. Woo! Spending time with his family was awesome. They were amazing hosts.

Getting there, however, was not so cool. We had to leave on Thursday morning from our house at like 4:45. Then we went from Salt Lake to Atlanta, had a three hour layover and then finally got to Mississippi. This plane ride was a GAZILLION times better than going to Hawaii when she was 2 months. I was pleasantly surprised.

Now, the window can actually keep this kid entertained. Yes!

Excuse me, what did I do to deserve this look??? Just went through 11 hours of labor for you, no biggie.

Also, the Delta worker saw that we had Livers and changed our seats so that we had an entire row. It was awesome!

Waiting to get on the plane after our three hour layover. Let us on!!!

Here are some of Livy's newest best friends:

This is Leah. It was so funny to watch her play with Livy. She was constantly telling Livy no. It was hilarious.

Here's Hinckley, Livy's arranged husband. They had a lot of fun together.

And here's what they did for fun:

MUST WATCH NEMO.

These two look like they've never seen Nemo before when in reality they have both seen it about a hundred times.

Livy's new favorite toy ever. Hinckley pushed her around everywhere. It was super cute.

Here's what happened on graduation day:

Here's the Jefferson Page crew at the graduation. We filled an entire row perfectly.


Eagle! (Scrubs reference) Anywho, Jeff was quite the award winner! Congrats! Which meant he got to get up and do the awkward pose for pictures thing MANY TIMES! Hooray for awkwardness!

Livy is proud to be an American! Coincidentally, that is Jeff's favorite song.

Picking up the tiniest spec she can find on the floor. This is my new favorite thing...

When you're the best of friends...

Are these looks for real!?! Oh man, I can see the future when I see these faces. I'm screwed.

After the graduation, we went to check out some cool planes. Matt and Livy actually went inside some of them.

I just like how much Matt is enjoying Jeff's story.

Here I am ROCKING at the flight simulator! I totally beat Matt at landing. It doesn't matter that he wasn't able to attempt landing, I would've beat him anyway.

Then we went to a banquet that night. Here's the handsome couple there. Courtney's siblings were nice enough to watch Livy while we went. It was tons of fun, especially once they let us eat! Woo!

Also, we were known as the Wismans at the banquet...

...we were pretty upset about it.

Here we are on the way home. It was my first time stepping onto a plane like this! I was excited. Of course it wasn't just a straight shot to Salt Lake again. First we went to Cincinatti (way stupid) and then from there to Salt Lake. We had so much fun in Mississippi! We were so happy to have been able to go and spend time with friends. Thanks guys for everything!

Here's a random pic we took of Livy. So freakin cute.