The "Late For A Good Reason" Post

It's the post you have all been waiting for. 

That's right, Landon Irving Smith was born. Right on time. 7 pounds 12 ounces, 20.7 Inches. Birthday: February 14th 2013. 

So, you see why this post is called The "Late For A Good Reason" Post. I'm pretty sure the only other time I've ever been able to claim something was late for a good reason was 9 months ago. Evidence? He's fast asleep in his moses basket next to me. 

The Slightly Unexpected Trek Into Motherhood:

The morning of the 13th started off just like any other typical Wednesday. Got my pregnant butt out of bed, got ready, and headed off to my doctors appointment. It was there they denied me of stripping my membrane's for the second time, and told me the fluid I was leaking was just dishcarge. (The day before my mucus plug fell out). After leaving my mother and I went to walmart where I waddled around, complaining I knew something was up with my body. Arriving home, I called up my own doctor and explained the situation to him, where apon he invited me out to get my membrane stripped that night and he wanted to restest the fluids. So at 6:45, my mother and I headed off to Bow Island, hoping for a little more encouragement that baby was on his way. The fluid was definately amniotic fluid, so that ment I could be induced soon so my predicted to be large baby with a large noggin could come out. Half an hour after arriving home, TWANG, my very first contraction occured. I WAS in labor. 

I scurried around doing random things hoping to keep the labor going, but eventually I had to lay down. Thianking, Oh you know, I'll be in labor for awhile it's best to get some sleep go get checked in the morning. Oh no. No, No, No was I ever wrong. About an hour after that, I felt like hell. I made my mom come down and lay with me to tide through the contractions, Then at about 2 am, I knew I had to go in. Ben and my dad gave me a blessing and off I went to the hospital. 

After mutiple hours of INTENSE back labor, a wonderful epidural and just under an hour of pushing (Feeling nothing at all) Landon was born. It was the most... amazing, wonderful, and most life changing moment I have ever had. As soon as he was on my chest, I knew he really was my world. Both mine and Ricky's world. We are so blessed with this precious little boy that we dedicate our lives to each day. Our little familia has started!! 

                                                            "Where the poop am I??" 

Stayed about 2 nights in the hospital. Stinks and I are learning how to nurse. Oh, it's so frustrating sometimes but when he latches and has a good feed it's totally worth it. My mom has just been super-gamma for Landon. She helps me at night when I need to feed, this morning she woke up at six with barely any sleep and cleaned my bathroom and folded my laundry, she's sewing blankets for him. I would be in a ess without her or the rest of my family. They hold him and love him up when i need a break. Erin spent an hour or more helping me feed Stinks last night. And Jocelyn Miller came over today to help me with a few feeding tricks. I have so much support and I really appreciate it all! 

Anywho, I need to peace out and focus on the little bundle of joy. And get some food and drinkable liquids in my tummy, (Nursing makes you hungry btw!) 

                                                                 Our First Family Picture

                                                       And A better picture of Bubs :) <3

The Jam Packed Week.

Well, It's my usual rest time so I figured Eh, I'll get this blog written and done. My goal is to not fall asleep during this..

So, It's been a pretty jam packed week, if i do say so myself.
SATURDAY: My Saturday was pretty crappy to say the least. I'm sure it would have been a rather normal day if I had not felt like a rhino practiced ballet on my back and head. (Severe back pain and a headache) I could hardly sleep that night. It was awful. I didn't want to take anything for it because anything I take Landon gets too. I'd rather suffer than give him a dose of some Tylenol or whatever.
SUNDAY: Slept in hardcore, like literally till 11:30. So, ultimately I skipped church again. (which I do admit, I don't really like. It's like.. not plugging in your phone at night. Church keeps me going, keeps me positive through the little personal dramas and frustrations.) Buuut, luckily I was needed. Kim had a rough night herself and so I played rescue hero and hung out with her. It was a well needed girly day.
And as always, we always have some hilarious event happen to us. Whilst driving home from checking her stuff in her storage unit.. A fire chief pulled up beside me and was driving next to me. I usually don't look because.. a) its medicine hat and there are a lot of creepy guys with big trucks (didn't notice it was a Fire Rescue truck). and b) see a) and times that by 10. Kim however had peered over, to which he put on his siren and lights. I pulled over and he just wanted to mention my tire was looking rather flat. I look over at Kim, only to realize that she looked like this...

We could only imagine how it must have looked to this guy. Just to see Wylie coyote peeking over at him randomly. It sent us into a giggle fit, which almost sent us off the road.
I also dyed her hair that night. And it looked pretty sweet. We did a level 4 (light brown) and some hot red streaks. I am rather proud of my work. Dying is my most favorite part of hair styling. I love the mixture of colours.
MONDAY: Woke up feeling rather nauseated again that day. I really hate the sour, slightly burning feeling of morning sickness. I'm going to be so relieved when I no longer have to deal with that or acid re-flux  I decided to dye my own hair. It turned out ok, I love the blonde pieces in my hair and so does Ricky. After that I touched up the house as best as a little fat, sore prego can do. My ankles decided to be cankles so I propped them up and ended up passing out for a few hours. My madre also made it home that night, which was so relieving to have her there. Took tons of stress off my shoulders.
TUESDAY: Woke up feeling rather sickly again that morning, but at least I got up earlier than the usual 11. (Very exhausted lately..) We got to watch little Baby Brooklynn while Erin went to her doctors appointment... We think the little sweet heart might be going through her growth spurt, as she is very hungry and fussy lately. She slept only a little while after her lunch and we had some troubles getting her settled. I could swear that I was a big scary monster or something. No matter how much I rocked her and gave her aunty kissles she just kept crying. We had to call in the big guns and daddy (Ben) came over to tame the sorrows of the princess. After much fussing, Ben finally got her to drink a bottle of formula and she fell asleep for a little while longer. Meanwhile, I sat on the floor trying to piece together a bouncer for Landon. Not a chance.. Bouncers are rather challenging to put together. (Unless your Ben, who put it together in like 10 minutes by himself.) Later that night, my mom took me out to dinner at the cheesecake cafe, where we devoured some delicious lettuce wraps. During dinner, I got a call from Ricky, who had been talking to the medical officer. (his colonoscopy was the day before) His colon is all cleared up but now they noticed hes bleeding from higher up. So, chances of Ricky being here for Landon's birth are even smaller than before. :(
My mom took sympathy on me and bought me a delicious banana split cheesecake Sunday. It was sooo tasty.
WEDNESDAY: Had my doctors appointment  Dr.Edwards told me he thinks Landon's heart rate is good, and that he thinks he is only an 8 pounder baby from my fundle measures and from touching the little guy through my tummy. My membranes were also stripped. My homework is to walk, walk, walk and walk, Hot baths and well.. the very act that got me pregnant.. but that's just not happening. So, its walking and baths for me. I also had the embarrassing moment of tripping on a chair in the bank. Luckily, i fell onto the chair.. and the banker didn't even bat an eyelash..
Got my car seat installed properly and my mom and I had a huge grocery shopping spree. Where I waddled around like a duck.
I also had my hospital tour that night. And learned that babies like to cuddle on their daddy's hairy chest. LOL. Gross.
THURSDAY: Not much happened, other than folding and putting away all of Landon's clothes and finding little baskets to put his bibs, socks and scratching mitts in. (Which I still need more of.. *cough*) And pacifiers... I also had a three hour nap o.O
FRIDAY: Very eventful day today. Got up early, and went to walmart with my mom. We found two cute shirts for her. But we had to leave quickly to get to my hair appointment. My hair is just a little shorter than i wanted BUT its healthy again and that's what matters. We went over to Superstore after, my poor mother wanted to zoom through the store but she cant because I waddle rather slowly everywhere. Plus, Landon was chilling on my cervix which makes walking slightly painful and uncomfy. I was banished to stay in the car while my mom ran into two other stores. Lol. We went back to walmart to grab some stuff that we didn't have time to get before my hair appointment. And some yummy chocolate. Then we proceeded to get lost in the parking lot for 10 minutes looking for the car.. which we had walked by -_-
I almost wet my pants laughing so hard.
Well, I think that's all for today. I also hear Brooklynn in the other room.. So.. I must flee into the other room to see her cuteness.

What A Wonderful Weee.. OW OW OW!!! Little Man.. That's NOT Funny! :(

Well, I didn't write anything down again thinking.. "Pssssht, I got this!" Yeah no.. No I don't "got this". Now is the time to recollect EVERYTHING that happened this week.. again. *facepalm*

Saturday: So, good old Saturday  Woke up to a gigantic mess after Ben's Halo Tournament. THAT was lovely.. not.. I at least got to eat some pizza for breakfast.. I know, not the healthiest thing to devour while your expecting but hey! If it's in front of me I'm going to eat it. Kind of like the tim bit story from my last post. AND there was this one time where Kim and I were at DQ.. And after I ate my meal.. I unconsciously started to eat her onion rings as well.. And how am i NOT 300 pounds?? o.O I however have been getting lovely edema in my legs. My ankles were soooo huge, I had to start wearing slippers everywhere instead of my boots!

Sunday:  I have no idea what I did this Sunday. I'm pretty sure i used my sore hips as an excuse to skip church and stay at home. They needed a break, ok? -_- Don't judge me.

Monday:Monday was soo lovely. I went over to Sister Schows house and spent 9 hours putting together Landon's blanky. It's very fluffy like a cloud, and soft. And I really can't wait to lay his little but on it. In the corner it has a very cute blue hippo with his name embroiderer in this pretty dark silver. Plus I also ate this delicious big piece of salmon for dinner! It tasted so good! My legs and ankles sure took a beating though. They were rather swollen and very sore by the time I got home. Luckily, Kim was there to give me a "Man service" and rubbed my feet with olive oil. We kind of messed around with pressure points.. and ow.. that kind of hurts...

Tuesday: Woke up Tuesday craving lettuce wraps. I think they are so delicious! I can't get over them! Had a nice chit chat with Kim while she packed up her stuff, as she was moving into her room that day. Her brother came and we put everything into the back of my truck. I was kind of worried that we would have kims stuff sprinkled all over the high way.. but luckily.. we made it to the house with everything still in the truck. After that, I had dinner at Ben and Erin's with the missionaries and it was delicious. And I kind of want to make my own Icecream..

Wednesday:My aunt came over wednesday morning and helped my clean up the house a little bit. It was sooo relieving to have a clean kitchen again. Then I headed off to my doctors appointment. Can I just say I hate the parking at the hospital? It's very hard to find a good, close spot. Especially in a big truck. I usually have to park across the whole lot but luckily I found a spot in the first row. Had a good appointment, Landon was pretty hyper though! Crazy little baby. or big baby i should say.
And back to the parking lot. tried to pull out but people kept getting in the way.. then they would back out and sit and wait for me to back out which was hard because im not used to that in a huge truck.. and I just dont like it when people do that so I sat there for five minutes.. and they wouldnt move.. It made me very, very, very grumpy. I eventually had to pull out and almost smoked some cars behind me because of how tight it was. Which made me even grumpier. I'm just going to have to live with parking in the back rows and end up walking farther.. Since people in Medicine Hat SUCK at everything that involves a vehicle. Learned about breastfeeding in prenatal class. And learned that babies can get milk drunk. Bahaha! So adorable.

Thursday: Had the most laziest day ever. I think i was awake for about 3 hours and then I passed out and slept the rest of the day. It was rather nice, but so unproductive! In the evening however.. A certain little man decided to try and break out (It feels like hes trying to swim out of me, which really hurts!)  AND to stretch out his legs and hurt his mommy's sides. His little but or lower back was jabbing out of my front just left of my belly button. I tried to tickle his little feet to get him to let up but he just chilled there, maybe pushed a little harder sometimes.. Ricky has been reading him a bed time story every night and He had to pause mid way last night to tell Landon to be nice to mommy. We both thought it was pretty stinkin cute and Ricky refered to landon as his little Kangaroo baby. I still refer to him as Godzilla baby.

Friday:Woke up this morning with, guess what, baby toes in my side again! And an exhausted, lazy orange cat passed out behind me. I slightly moved and heard.. "Meow?" I don't think he was very impressed that I was moving and waking him from his deep sleep. I forgot to wash my blender yesterday so I didnt get to have a delicious smoothy this morning. After my shower I waddled around the kitchen almost brought to my knees in tears because Landon was really pushing into my left side. I laid on the ground and got his little stinky body to flop onto my right side, which helped a little bit. Hopefully he knocks it off, I don't think Im going to be going into labor anytime soon and it really hurts me when he does that.
And Beef just came into the house through his cat door with a loud "MEOW??" as if to say 'HELLOOO?"
Seriously, he is a rather interesting character.

And I think that is it for this week. i really need to write down what happens throughout the week. Because i truly do forget everything.
Ugh..