Welcome, Vivian Marie

I hit 40 weeks on Sunday, Oct. 28.  I had an appointment Monday and the doctor said he would induce me the next day if I wanted. I said yes so Tuesday morning we headed to the hospital at 7am. Here I am at 40 weeks:

40 weeks!

This next section is for posterity so if you're not into labor stories... skip ahead to the pictures of baby. =) I'll forget if I don't write it.

Labor was not too bad. They started pitocin at 8:30am and by 1pm I was ready for the epidural. The anesthesiologist came and started the procedure. She said my back is off line a little so she was trying to make sure to adjust for it. (With Annabelle the epidural only worked on one side of my body, TWICE! Then finally the third time it worked.) She continued on being very careful it hit a nerve which hurt and scared me. I started to freak out a little. But she finished and I started to only feel the epidural on my right side. So she gave me a big dose of the meds and had me lean over on my left side. It seemed to work because I didn't end up feeling anything. She did a great job. Then we sat there for about 2 1/2 hours waiting for baby to drop so I could push. Finally after only about 15 minutes of pushing, she was here. We didn't finalize a name until the next morning. We had a couple names when we went to the hospital but still weren't totally sure. Then after she was born, Mike had to run to get the girls and I didn't really get to talk to him until the next morning. But we decided on the name Vivian Marie.

First Look

Vivian was 7 lbs. 14 oz. and measured 19 in.

Mike brought the girls for a quick visit.

Getting some footprints done.

Getting a bath.

They love their new sister.

Eedie really wanted to hold her by herself.

First pictures with Dad.

Going home.

Halloween
I was still in the hospital Halloween night, but Mike took the girls Trick r' Treating.

Eedie was a gnome. I guess he forgot to brush her hair. =)

Annabelle was Rapunzel.

Home

Annabelle wanted to hold Vivian, but she had a cold when we got home with the baby. She had to wear her Hello Kitty mask. Didn't matter too much, because Vivian ended up catching a cold anyway at 9 days, same as Eedie! But Vivian's cold hasn't seemed to be as bad as the one Eedie had.

Her first bath at home. She still had her umbilical cord end so we just had to wipe her down. She was still pretty jaundice at this point too. We had to go back to the hospital a few times to get her bilirubin levels checked.

Vivian is almost 2 weeks now. So far she has been a great baby. She sleeps well and only fusses when she is hungry. Looking forward to many new adventures with Vivian!

October Festivities

Here's a little update from the month of October...

A couple prego picutres from just a few weeks before she was born...

36 weeks

At 38 weeks, we ended up going to the hosptial but it was just a false alarm. I had been having contractions which lasted for 30-60 seconds each for about 45 minutes. They were pretty intense but I didn't know what real contractions were like since I've always had to have pitocin. They sent us away after being there for about 2 hours and no progress. Here I was the next day.

38 weeks

We like to paint our pumpkins since the girls are a little young for carving. We did this for Family Home Evening one night.

There was a homecoming parade a couple weeks ago so I took the girls to a park nearby and we waited for the parade to begin. You can't really tell from the picture but this is a pretty tall slide. Eedie went down and came out sideways. I was thinking she was going to freak out but she got out and went back and down a few more times.
 

We don't have swings near our house but Annabelle always loves a good swing.

All the girls.

They were a little freaked out by the parade. There was a fire truck and the band and I guess they didn't know what to think.

There was a crazy sale on diapers at the Commissary so we stocked up. Eedie isn't totally potty trained yet, so we figured we would make it through all these before it's all said and done.

Annabelle hsa been going to swimming lessons for a month now. She likes it after she gets in the water and starts moving around. She really likes the Japanese ladies that teach the classes too.

I wanted to make sure Annabelle's Halloween costume from last year was going to fit Eedie. Here she is trying on her gnome outfit with her little gnome friend.

This kid doesn't always take a nap... but when she does she puts herself to sleep. =) She hardly ever takes a nap anymore but this day she must have been completely exhausted!

We went to eat dinner at the bowling alley one night. They wanted to ride the bus. We put the yen in to start the ride and it hardly moved. Oh... those crazy Japanese rides!

Octoberfest

We went to Octoberfest the last weekend of October. It's nice because it's right outside our tower and the food is all FREE!

Eedie eating her corn.

Annabelle was being a bit a-social that day and didn't want to go in the bouncy house. But Eedie sure liked it.

Trunk r' Treat

We had a trunk r' treat at church the night of Octoberfest. Busy weekend! I didn't get too many pictures but here are just a couple.

Getting some treats from Bro. Welling.

Afterwards with all their loot.

Still... more to come...

Mike's TDY

It's been a while! There's been a lot happening here at the Jones' the last two months. At the beginning of September, Mike went on a TDY (Temporary Duty "Something") which sent him to San Antonio. He stopped off in Salt Lake on the way. The girls and I didn't do too much while he was gone. It's getting hard for me to do stuff off base by myself since I am getting huge. 

But I was going to post some pictures from that time period, but Mike was just trying to clean up my phone and accidentally deleted all the pictures on my phone from the past month and a half. =( But here are just a few I actually took with the camera.

We were hand painting for the nursery leaders in our ward.

We started a co-op preschool with some other people from church. This was Annabelle's first day. She has also started swim lessons (which I had a picture of on my phone) and ballet. She loves swimming. We have been to two ballet classes and she wouldn't participate at all for the first class and the second, she finally participated for the last 15 minutes. So maybe this week she'll go the whole time! It might be a little too much since the baby will be here soon, but we've paid for the month of October so we figure, we'll give them all a try since it takes a while here to get into the classes.

Dad brought this Mexican dress back for one of Eedie's gifts from San Antonio.

I can't remember what she was eating here, but I thought it was cute.

The girls love to go out in the hallway and play. This day they were riding around with their strollers. Eedie decided she didn't want her diaper on any longer. That's what's in her hand. =)

More updates coming soon...