One Month!

Lydia is now two months old,

but let's take a look back to when she was just a month old.

July 28, 2012 

What a cute little baby! 

Thanks to Jessica for making the adorable onesies

and for taking these pictures!

Funny Lydia! 

Relaxing with Daddy!

First Bath!

Lydia's umbilical cord fell off while we were at the beach, 

so when we got home she had her first bath.

As you can see, she didn't love it,

but I wouldn't say she hated it either.

Scrub-a-dub!

Lydia's in the tub!

Home Sweet Home!

After arriving home and taking Lydia on a tour,

(she fell asleep half way through...oh well)

both of our families came for another visit.

Here is Uncle Chris, since I forgot to take a picture of him in the hospital.

Cousin Caleb LOVES baby Lydia!

Back to my auntly duties!

Hospital Life!

Here is Lydia in her first real outfit. 

I couldn't believe how cute she looked!

And after two nights in the hospital after she was born,

we finally got to go home! 

I was so happy to get out of there!

It seemed like we stayed forever and a day! 

We asked a nurse to take a picture of us before we left,

but it didn't turn out so well.

So here is our own attempt at a family portrait.

(This is after many failed attempts!) 

All ready for the trip home!

She slept the whole way!  

Tune in next week for some more Lydia-ness.

Honeycutt Visitors!

Here are the lovely Honeycutt visitors!

I'm pretty sure the title of "Lydia's #1 Fan" goes to Caleb! :)

  

And we can't forget my dearest friend Ashley! :)

Look at all the lovely flowers and cards we got!

We felt so loved! :)

 And since we were staying in the Mimosa Suite,

Jessica brought us a beautiful bouquet of mimosa. Ha!

Habermas Visitors!

Our first visitors were Habermas family members.

Here are Lydia's Granddad and Grandmom!

I think that's what they want to be called...

we'll see how that goes!  :)

Uncle Andrew and Aunt Chelsea!

We traveled down to Louisiana for their wedding a few weeks later.

(More to come in the future about that!)

Uncle Matthew!

(He actually came later in the evening with Chris, but he's a Habermas, so he belongs with this post. :) ) 

Uncle Jared was in the Dominican Republic when Lydia arrived, so he missed it.  Sad!

Here he is a few days later, visiting at our house.

Such a happy Habermas family!  :)

The Birth Story!

Don't worry, I won't go into too much detail, but here is a little of our story.

I'll write it down so I don't forget....

although I don't think I'll be forgetting any time soon! :)

My due date was June 19th.  After waiting a whole, long week past that day, I decided that I wanted to be induced.  I had mixed feelings about that decision, but I decided on it for these reasons: #1 I knew my baby was growing by the day, and I wasn't really wanting a ten pounder! #2 I had been having lots of Braxton Hicks contractions and kept thinking that she was about to come, when really she never did...and I was beginning to think that she never would! #3 Joel and I wanted to go on my family's vacation, which was fast approaching.  (Silly reason, I know...but the truth must be told!)

So, we checked into Women's East, a branch of Erlanger, on Tuesday night, June 26th.  They hooked me up to an IV and started pumping "fluids" into me.  I have no idea what they were doing medically...no good details in that area.  They also stuck a thing on my finger to take my heart beat, two things attached to my belly to monitor Lydia's heart and my contractions, and then a blood pressure thing to my arm.  After I was all hooked up, they told me to get some sleep and rest up for the big day tomorrow.  Here was the problem, well the main one...the blood pressure sleeve thingy automatically went off every 15 minutes.  So every time I was about to fall asleep that obnoxious thing would go off, squeeze the life out of my arm, and wake me up.  Also, there were beeps going off all the time, nurses checking on me, etc., etc.!  Needless to say, I was hoping Lydia would make her appearance the next day. 

Well, Wednesday came and Lydia never did.  They tried all kinds of things to get her coming, but nothing seemed to work.  I was always still 1.5 cm dilated when they checked, as I had been for weeks.  So frustrating!  I really thought I was doing fine, UNTIL my dad and Heather stopped in for a visit.  I lost it.  Oh dear.  That was a little embarrassing.  I was just a bit discouraged, and again was convinced she would never come.  So, after seeing me lose it, my nurses decided to let me take a break for the night.  I got to get unconnected from all the annoying beeping machines that were attached to me, take a shower, and eat Zaxby's!  Oh joyous day!  So, I got a bit more sleep that night, which was great!

On to Thursday, the big day!

I woke up, got all hooked up again, things started being pumped into me and stuck into me.  After a few hours, still nothing!  1.5 cm.  Ahh!  But then, around 9 AM, my water broke.  Yahoo!  At least something was happening!  Things remained pretty calm until about 10:30 (I think).  I am already forgetting....and I thought I never would! haha!  Anyways, I started having pretty intense contractions...as in, I could have screamed but chose to remain silent.  :)  I told my nurse that I was ready for my epidural (as my wise sister, Jessica, advised).   She told me that I was only having mild contractions and to see if I could wait about two more hours.  She said my baby was coming no time soon.  I said okay.  She left the room.  Then I had another contraction.  Immediately after, I sent Joel out to find that nurse and get me my epidural.  ha!  So she kindly did.  Thank goodness!  A nurse came in to check me right afterwards, and she said, "well, I wouldn't really say that you are 1.5 cm."  I thought she was thinking I was only 1 cm!  Oh no!  Then she said, "You are more like 7 or 7.5."  Happy day!  So finally it was time to have my baby.  Just about that time (whenever it was) the air conditioner quit working.  Yep.  I think it was literally 100 degrees outside, and the air conditioner broke right when it would have been nice to have it!  So the nurses were all fanning themselves and brought in a fan to cool off the room. 

ha! 

At 4:23 Lydia finally decided to make her grand arrival!

We were so happy!

Our perfect, beautiful, little girl was finally ours to hold, look at, and love!

She's here!

Lydia Joy was born on June 28, 2012.

She weighed 9 lbs 6.5 oz!

So much has happened in the month and a half that has passed!

Stay tuned and I will share it all with you.  

LYDIA is a very good, sweet baby, and she brings us so much JOY!

Lydia's Nursery!

While we wait on Lydia to arrive,

let me take you on a tour of her nursery. 

I made this wreath for the door. 

And I completed my first successful sewing projects:

curtains, bed skirt, and pillow! 

Joel made this super cool wall thingy!

The bird matches the birds on the curtains. 

So, there you have it,

the bird-themed nursery.

I hope she likes it!  :) 

Baby Clothes!

Speaking of baby purchases....

we've started a nice collection of cute little baby girl clothes.

And look how cute this bathing suit is!!! 

Ruffles!!!

High Chair!

Here is one of our first baby purchases:

I like it much better than the big clunky plastic wonders in the stores.

We found this at Goodwill for $10!

What a deal!

Gender Reveal Party!

 We had a gender reveal party last week

so that we could tell everyone the big news at the same time.

Josiah was the first to bite into a cake ball! 

It's a GIRL!!!

Everyone wore pink or blue to the party,

depending on their guess.

Here is the winning pink team:

(Jessica made the super cute bunting that we are standing under!)

And the group shot:

We're all pretty excited to meet the first girl grandbaby!