Awesome pics and videos from Hawaii

So we went to Hawaii for a week with Matt's family. It was really fun - we went to Oahu. Unfortunately we learned some things about Alivia that made Hawaii the worst place to ever take her.

First of all, she is allergic to flowers. The second we landed and you could smell them, Alivia started breathing like a little pug - it was cute/sad/hilarious. Second, she's extremely sensitive to heat - she had to be naked the whole time because any time we put clothes on her, a huge heat rash would break out all over her body.

Also, we took a little mist fan anticipating how hot she'd get at the beach, but we found out that whenever she freaks out - we can put the fan right on her and she stops immediately - it was hilarious. She'd start crying and we'd turn on the fan and blow it all over her body and she'd start to laugh and love life! What a crazy girl.

Here's Alivia on the 6 1/2 hour plane ride there. She was really awesome for some of it - and then she wouldn't stop screaming for a lot of it - poor passengers - I'm pretty sure most of them were giving us the stink eye when they passed us as they got off the plane...




Here's Alivia's first time at the beach - she was telling me about how much she loved it! She has the cutest little mouth!

Here's Alivia's first time in the water. She wasn't too sure about what was happening, but she didn't cry. Also Matt's awesome farmer's tan makes me very happy. In his defense, this was the beginning of the trip - it did improve - sort of...

Two freaking months old!

This pic was taken on her first day home from the hospital.

And here she is two months later! She gets bigger everyday!
The little monkey went to the doc and everything is A-OK! She's in the 75th percentile for her weight and head circumference and in the 45th percentile for her height... was there any doubt that she's going to be a little shorty!?!

So we did the whole 2 months immunization ordeal - worst day of my life! I made Matt hold her while it happened and I totally started to tear up. But then the nurse looked over at me judgingly! So I held back the tears. Seriously, we've never heard her cry that loud and hard ever! Her poor little face got all blotchy with red spots all over! So we gave her Tylenol for the next two days. She did really well! These pics are from her first morning after the shots! The Tylenol knocked the poor kid out!

I think she might've enjoyed the drugs just a little too much...

Some funny things about Alivia:

She's started this whole zero to freak out in 2 seconds thing! She's learning how to manipulate us - she knows we'll come running immediately! Then when we pick her up - she's totally fine.
AHHHHHH!!! Classic!She loves her daddy! Because I'm at my internship from 4-11 several nights a week - she's gotten a lot of one-on-one time with Daddy. But she refuses to let him get anything done. When she's with me in the morning, I can set her down any time and she'll just chill - but not with Matt! She has to be touching him the entire night! It's so cute! And a little frustrating for Matt - but he loves it!
Also, this little one can fall asleep anywhere and she sleeps through the night! It's amazing! We put her to bed every night at about 9:45. And without fail, she won't wake up until at least 6 usually 6:30! And then when she's done eating - she falls asleep again until around 10! I'm so spoiled! My next kids are going to be nightmares... I can just feel it!

And this is just a funny picture. I guess she had given up on life so she had to resort to death by burp rag! Ha! Cute little bugger.

Matt's pride and joy...

Who needs a TV when you have this little one?

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ROCK BAND!

The government gave us money for no reason...i.e. a stimulus check. So what did we do? We went straight to Walmart to stimulate the economy. You guessed it, we bought rock band. I don't think I have ever been more pleased with a purchase that I have made. Alexis rocks on the drums and I either rock the guitar or the lead vocals. It is pretty exciting, especially when I don't know the songs but sing them anyway. I have to say that we are getting pretty good as a drum guitar duo. I can only assume that we would be that good in real life. There is no way that this game is just giving us a false sense of awesomeness. Yeah...we pretty much rock.

My Husband Rocks!

So Matt is pretty much amazing! And here's a couple reasons why:

1. When he doesn't have to work, he'll take Alivia downstairs in the morning just so I can sleep a couple extra hours.

2. He's not afraid of any of the curve balls that Alivia has thrown at him since she came home from the hospital (including when she pooped on him her first day home). He's an amazing dad.

3. He pays attention to little things I mention and remembers them later. For example, I told him forever ago that I wanted a car racing game for our Xbox because I can't figure out how to play the games we have! And for Mother's Day, he got me my racing game! And the movie Juno - my favorite!

4. He didn't have any time this weekend to go and get me something so, in order to surprise me, he woke up really early in the morning on Saturday and took little Alivia with him to Wal-Mart while I was passed out in bed. I had no idea!

5. He claims he likes to do the dishes and actually does them because he knows that I hate doing that more than anything in the entire world!

6. He always lets me have the remote because he knows that to fight for it would be a waste of time!

7. He takes me on drives (my favorite thing to do) even though he hates it more than life itself AND gas is more expensive than it's ever been!

8. When he has an evening and morning shift right next to each other - instead of staying down at the ranch, he'll come home at night because he knows how much I hate being home alone - even if it means he gets less sleep.

And that's just a couple reasons but there are billions and billions more!

All she does is eat, sleep, and POOP!

My Baby's First Almost Real Bath!!!

So Matt and I decided to whip out Alivia's little tub and give her an almost real bath! She was a little chilly at first but when we splashed her with the water she loved it! Tonight we plan on moving her to her crib. I'm not excited at all! I'll let you know how it goes...

When Mommy and Grandma B. get bored...

So we mentioned that it's impossible to wake this little girl up when she's sleeping, and one night we decided to have a little fun at the poor girl's expense...

We did it!

So when I say we did it I mean we both walked at graduation. Alexis still has to finish a couple of classes online and I still have to turn in some paperwork. Let's not let that take away from the excitement, at commencement on Thursday Cecil O. Samuelson bestowed bachelor's degrees upon everyone who's name was in the program...that is me.






Now here is something you don't see everyday, four generations of women. I think this is so cool.












Here is the whole fam damily out for the occasion. What a crew.

Classic.

We had a pretty full day on Friday. We graduated at 8 a.m. and then we blessed our sweet little girl at 2. It was a little stressful, especially when nobody from the bishopric showed up and I had to call one of the counselors at home while he was doing yard work...good times. It all worked out in the end and it was an awesome experience.








Alivia's great-grandma Jordan made this amazing blessing dress. You can tell it has been a long day for Alivia. She was a trooper.











Uncle Ky caught this candid shot of Alivia deep in thought, contemplating her blessing she just received... She is the freakin cutest kid ever.











I guess Alivia wasn't the only one that was worn out at the end of the day.

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!

The hospital

On Wednesday we got called up at 6:30 AM and they told us that we needed to be at the hospital at 7:30. As soon as we got to the hospital they had Alexis lay down and went ahead and gave her an IV. Her first one ever! Like half an hour later her OB/GYN came in and broke her water. It was really happening. We asked when she should get her epidural and he said she might as well do it right away because it would take a while to take effect. Not long after the epidural took effect, the contractions started and Alexis never even felt any pain.







Most of the day was spent just like this...me eating wheat thins, fruit roll ups and cookies, while Alexis just laid there all numb and puking up anything that touched her stomach (mainly blue gatorade). Good times.







After hours and hours of contractions and check after check by the nurses, things weren't progressing as well as we had hoped. Dilation was happening but the baby needed more oxygen so Alexis was forced to have this mask...she really liked it.







After a while we realized that Alexis was losing quite a bit of blood. The doctor and nurses thought that the placenta may be detaching and it became a race against time. To add to the problems the baby was posterior (not breech), so her head was facing up rather than down like it is supposed to. The doctor said that as long as Alexis was fully dilated that he could twist the baby around and deliver safely. Time kept passing and Alexis just wasn't dilating all the way on one side so the decision was made that we couldn't wait any longer...we had to have a C-section. I don't know if you can tell, but this is the most scared I have ever been in my life...





15 minutes after the decision was made we had our beautiful baby girl and Alexis was being stitched up. Alivia Maria Wiseman was born at 6:06 PM on April 9th. She was 7 lbs 2 oz. and 19 1/2 inches.

Bad Guys... and a baby update

I HATE being home alone. When Matt first started his job where he had to stay late and sometimes overnight, I use to not be able to even go upstairs because I was so scared! Why? Because of the bad guy pictured here - this is who I think is ALWAYS around the corner when I'm home alone. Every tiny sound that my house makes is a bad guy upstairs waiting to get me! I understand that it's out of control paranoia and I seriously need help!

Tonight a neighbor knocked on my door to borrow something and I couldn't reach the peep hole and so I was too scared to answer the door because of course, in little Orem, UT - on the other side of my door was a crazy killer and if I answered the door he'd barge his way in and kill me! Ahhh! (Yes, I still know I need help!) Anywho I finally answered the door and felt like a complete idiot... Help!


In other news...

Here's the latest pic of my belly - along with my lovely mother. This was almost two weeks ago and if you can believe it - I've gotten bigger! I honestly didn't think it was possible, but now I'm pretty sure that I'll be delivering quite the chub! Wish me luck!

Also, I went to the doctor's office again today! It was my last visit!!! Woo! There were a couple of events worth mentioning. First, it was the very first time I was able to pee in that dang little cup without getting it everywhere! Is that sad? I don't care - that is the most difficult task I've ever been given - and at my LAST appointment I finally nailed it! Woo! Second, I found out that I'm dilated to a 2 almost 3. BLEH! Two weeks and I only get to a freakin two! But he did say the cervix was thinning, so that's always fun. And then he had the nerve to tell me that if I were a 3 or 4 he'd induce me today! I didn't actually let him finish that sentence, fearing I might choke him. That's about it. Now we just wait for Sunday. And if she's not here by then - I'll be induced on the 9th!

Hooray for school!

It has been brought to my attention that it is my turn to post on the blog. Apparently we have a competition to see who gets the most comments on their posts. I lose every time as it turns out.

Well let it be known that I am no longer trying for dental school. I have decided to pursue an MBA instead. I will most likely be applying shortly to the Executive MBA program at Westminster College in Salt Lake. Hopefully college will in fact be the best 7 years of my life. Later on I plan on being the CEO of some major corporation...just wait.

In other news, still no baby. It looks like we are down to about 9 days and that little girl just doesn't want to come. We have tried driving on bumpy roads, lavender baths, spicy food, and everything else short of drinking castor oil (which we won't try because it can be dangerous). This baby is going to be strong-willed just like her mom...heaven help us all.

That is about all I have to say...let me know if you know of any other good places to earn an MBA while still working full-time to support a wife and baby.

The day the dentist won...

The Doc

vs.

The Dentist

Although I'm sure that the doctor and dentist always have the best of intentions (except for the weirdies), their appointments are always the most dreaded. But people usually don't hate both, it's one or the other. Matt, for example, hates the doctor. He refuses to see the doctor unless he's sliced his arm open and needs 13 stitches, which actually happened a week after he complained about having health insurance that he "doesn't need." I, however, have always hated the dentist. And now that he's my father-in-law, it makes for a very complicated situation!

Anywho, I've felt that I would always be able to count on hating the dentist and not the doctor; but today, the doctor's appointment took a tragic turn for the worse.

The good news: I'm dilated to a one! And the doctor decided to move my inducing date up a week because Alivia is measuring a little bit bigger, but it's probably more due to the fact that I kept begging him to induce me TODAY!

The bad news: how he obtained this information. Today was the first day that he started to check dilation - WORST EXPERIENCE OF MY LIFE! Although I kept a brave face - I was thinking, "If I can barely handle this, HOW THE FREAK AM I GOING TO HANDLE LABOR!"

Anywho, he also felt her head today. She's head down which is good, but she's not committed, she moved once he touched her - so now we need to start having pep talks with her -

COMMIT ALIVIA, COMMIT!