What is perfection?

Everyone has a different idea of what perfection is....
This one is mine. Miss Halli Marissa...

Halloween

Halloween 2008

Danielle dressed as a Ninja Princess

Nicholas was a Grim reaper under neath he was a Star wars trooper but wouldn't show off his creation.

Eric was a Dark side skeleton

And Emily was a Genie.

Danielle stayed home to pass out Candy and Nate helped me baby sit Halli who was dressed as a baby ghost. (More pic's of Halli to follow)

The rest of the kids headed out with Michael to trick or treat.

Hunter was batman
and Sierra was a water fairy from the new Tinker bell movie. (Nate has pics still waiting for some from him on them.)

The kids enjoy a baby too

Here are a few pic's of Halli's brothers and sisters enjoying her, but not as much as her Daddy and Mommie do that's for sure!!!

where has the time gone already?

It's cold weather, the leaves have fallen the holidays are upon us. And I'm still hibernating at home with Baby bug. I can't believe how fast time has gone by. Time passes much faster now that Halli is here then when we were waiting for her. She is 5 weeks old almost 6 and growing faster than I'd like her too. Amazing how different she is already. She has the sweetest cooing voice and makes many sounds. From grunting to squeaking to little laughs and small chatters of nothings. She is growing so fast and looks like a baby now not a newborn. Oh the love she fills our lives with is amazing. Even though she still wont sleep through the night, we love her so much anyways. Here are a few more pictures of my precious bug. Enjoy and if I ever find a spare moment I'll update on other things.

Also included the very special visits with family and such over the last 3 weeks included. I don't have pic's of all her visitors but here are some I do have.

Halli Marissa Negrette

I'll give you the short version to spare the lengthy icky details.
We went into the hospital on Thursday Sept. 25 at 4 30, by 5 they had me all hooked up and ready to go to start the induction with pitocen. I had to have antibiotics through my IV before they could break my water. It was so quiet and boring nothing on tv and no real progress. A couple hours later I was only at a 4.5 dilation (we were in the middle of watching Greys anatomy) my Dr.came in and broke my water. Holy batman. My little contractions I was barely feeling got intense and came one right after the other. Oh yeah my dear Husband kept telling me to breath through them. lol' ok ya sure. I planned on going natural, but after 15 min. of intense pain I was like oh no way. get me drugs. LOL. They came in and put a pain reliever in my iv. Um It hadn't kicked in before I was asking for and epidural. Just my luck there wasn't enough time. I guess at some point I just told them I changed my mind I couldn't do it this way and begged for a c-section Just as she came out. LOL. It wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. I couldn't believe I had done it. Yay it was over and I felt instantly better. I had 2 tares that they stitched up and I felt just fine after all was said and done.

Halli Marissa Negrette
Born Sept. 25 2008
at 10:05 PM
weighing 6 lbs. 8 oz.
length 17" (short)

Halli had been a little slow on the go and it took them awhile to get her moving and crying. We were able to hold her and love her but she was having trouble breathing so they took her away to get her stable. They came back to check on me and I guess not only was Halli having trouble after delivery so was I. I felt fine but had started to hemorrhage and they couldn't figure out what was wrong and why I was bleeding constantly. They had to call the Dr. back to the hospital because we had assumed in the hour after delivery everything was as it should be. After much checking an ultra sound, a whole lot of different drugs (used to stop the bleeding) pushing and prodding my uterus they discovered that she was born so fast (within the hour of breaking my water) that she had ripped my cervix. Oh joy. I was put under and wheeled away to surgery. They had to stitch the cervix from top to bottom and then performed a D&C and to extract left over placenta that they hadn't caught on the ultrasound. I was left in the recovery of L&D all night on oxygen and drugs.
As for Halli they ended up doing a few blood cultures her white blood cells were elevated so they instantly started her on antibiotics. They did chest ex rays to determine if she had residual fluid in her lungs or not. She was very grunty and they couldn't figure out why. All tests over the next two days came back negative except that she had started to become jaundice however it wasn't bad and so they agreed to release her. We both got to come home on Sunday. But were warned no visitors for at least 48 hours. Aside from 2 short visits by parents and Michael's sister who brought dinner over. (Thanks Sherry) we were settling in.
Unfortunately it was anything but a quiet night. Halli was having trouble breathing again this time it wasn't just grunting but actual wheezing and snorting because she couldn't breath which meant she couldn't eat which meant no one slept out of concern and fear. So Monday we headed right back to the Dr. He checked her lungs and airways and tested her jaundice. We have yet to get the info back on jaundice level, but her poor breathing is seemed to be caused by pall ups in her nose that are blocking the airway and the congestion she developed can't drain. She is currently on drops to relieve it and we will know if we are being referred to an ENT specialist by end of week if her breathing hasn't progressed.

Other than that she is safe at home and resting a lot. We're very excited to have our little princess home with us as we enjoy every moment and squeaky noise she makes.

Induction set for today

I didn't sleep at all last night. I was to be induced this morning. Nothing to eat or drink after midnight, call the hospital at 6 AM and plan on getting set up at 7AM. Well needless to say of course my luck kicked in. The hospital had an out poor of laboring mothers last night and my induction has been pushed back to 4pm today. Sad, no sleep for no reason. Oh well maybe she'll be born around 10PM tonight!!! If not maybe tomorrow. I do prefer even days over odd number days, but Nicholas was more excited that she was coming 3 days before his Birthday than just two. So at this point only time will tell. We'll update when we get home in a few days. It's not like taking a vacation and getting to leave home for a few days. I'm headed in the boot camp of delivery. LOL. But the slimming effects will be worth it and the little prize (trophy) we bring home will also be worth it!!

Early 12th Bday for Peanut

With the upcoming expected arrival of baby sister Halli, Nicholas opted to celebrate his birthday early! Not that any year is a typical birthday celebration for him anyhow.

After much deliberation on what he wanted and a last minute change of mind a few failed emails of the pictures of what he wanted and then down to the wire decisions we pulled it all off and he was genuinely pleased.

We decided to go bowling. (at least Nicholas decided too, with Michael and the kids) I got to sit and watch because Nicholas wouldn't have forgiven me had I bowled and come home with a baby girl from his party. We then headed home for cake and presents. We kicked Nathan, Hunter and Sierra out of bed Saturday night at about 9 30 to join us and then took them home again about 11 maybe 11 30. Sorry Bro' if you were super tired for Church the next day but thank you so much for joining us! Nicholas loved having his cousins there and I of course enjoy having my Bro' around.

The night before we took Nicholas out for Dinner (At KFC, I know don't ask, I had a craving Nicholas thought it was a good idea too, but then I remembered why I don't like that place, so much grease its yucky) Then because we were impromptu, we took him to the store and let him pick out his own gifts (with a few suggestions besides just star wars toys) He picked out a star wars ship, an action figure, a new auto spring light sabar and after about an hour plus of shopping we convinced him to get some real toys for boys his age, so we headed to the sporting goods department. He selected a sling shot with the help of dad. We took them home and Saturday afternoon Nicholas helped me wrap his own presents. Its a good thing he's 12 and didn't care. Later his bro' and sisters surprised him with a new BB gun, since his from Christmas was overly jammed beyond repair. So of all things said, he loves the star wars things but is most excited about his new sling shot!!!! I couldn't be happier that he likes those things as I remember how much fun we had with Nate's when we we're young. And I'm not concerned about him playing with them, just concerned that someone else if around them will loose an eye. So he's able practice when no one else is around. Others can observe when he becomes an accurate shot and responsible with them.

I love you Peanut and Happy Birthday from your Mommie, Dad, Sisters and Brother (and kick kick from Halli)

On a side note, stop growing up so fast! You're making me old.

I'll have to share more Birthday pics later. But enjoy the ones posted!