Back to Work =(

I will be going back tomorrow and I am sad =(...here's a few pics until then. I'll plenty of time to catch you up tomorrow....

2 More =)

Just a couple more pics=).....I'll write soon

Few More Pics =)

WOW!!! I am SOOO late with updates =)

Sorry guys!!

I know you all have been waiting for updates and I have let you down =(....my bad. No one prepared me for how little time you have when you have a little one and are not working. I'm lucky to keep myself bathed these days =) or maybe I just need more time to get my Mommy skills down. I have no idea how some of you do it with more than one.

Okay so ........

Lilliana Marie Placht has arrived.....

....actually she arrived on October 6th, 2009 at 4:26 pm. She had to be coerced to make her arrival. She must have found it quite warm and comfy in there because she had no plan of coming out on her own =) I was due October 3rd, and she was a no-show. I was admitted to the hospital October 5th at 8 pm for induction. That night they stuck a magic string in there (yeah, THERE) and by 11 pm that night I was having painful contractions. By 7 the next morning, I was praying for my epidural...which i got all right.....it worked all of 30 minutes...and ONLY on the backs of my legs....NICE. My doctor came for a visit to check my progress....in the middle of me crying for the pain of my contractions..he tells my nurse to start pitocin....UMM HELLO???? Can we PLEASE fix the stabbing awful pain that is searing up and down my insides BEFORE we make it worse?????

PLEASE???

The nurse looked at him like he was nuts. She hung the bag up, but bless her heart she left it there and didn't subject me to anymore torture. About 3 hours after my original epidural, they sent some newbie to try and redo it. This clown put another 3 or so holes in my spine and STILL couldn't get it in right. It took another doctor twice to finally get it right. Poor Joe is lucky he still has fingers that aren't broken....

FINALLY....it worked. I felt no pain. In fact...I felt absolutely NOTHING. Which ended up being a slight problem when it came time to push. I had to have 3 people help hold my legs, luckily I could still feel the pressure and knew when to push.....Pushing...now there's an experience...and it's even more so when you have to stop because the nurses are doing shift change...OMG.....here's something you all may find funny....what got me through was the promise of the BIGGEST, COLDEST ICE TEA they could find if I just pushed hard enough and got our little miracle out.......So I did!! I pushed for 2 hours and 20 minutes. It didn't feel that long and I will spare you the awful details on the damage to my nether region....I will tell you that it hurt like hell when they started stitching and I realized I could feel that!!! I had him remedy that quickly or there was going to be some screaming done =)

Lily......

She is the most wonderful thing (besides Joe =)) that has ever happened to me. She's beautiful, looks just like her Daddy. Big blue eyes.....and she even inherited his freaky second toe thingy where it's bigger than his big toe.....weird. She weighed 7 pounds 6 ozs when she arrived and I am absolutely in love with her. Holding her is the most amazing experience everyday. When it's just her and I, I love to lay her in my arms and watch her breathe. I smell her baby head and feel her heartbeat on my chest. I never ever thought I would be that person. When she cries, most times I know what she wants....very rarely does she just cry for no reason. She hates to sleep during the day, but at least we have her sleeping at night. Right now she's smiling in her sleep (one of my friends from Bosnia says she's smiling at angels, I believe that =)) Everyday is becoming a new adventure. Joe is doing so well with her, I love to watch him talk to her and watch her big blue eyes focus on him. I love him more everyday too =)

I can't believe she's already 4 weeks old. I have to go back to work in 4 weeks and I feel like crying everyday. I don't want to leave her =(....I'm don't trust anyone to take care of her they way we do....except my Mom =) I think my Mom would steal her if she could!! But I am so lucky to have her and her help!! This whole daycare thing is going to be a nightmare for me. I worry incessantly anyway and to have some stranger caring for my precious little girl is going to freak me out. I'm not happy about it, no way, no how. Luckily I am only going to work 2 days during the week and one on the weekend. It doesn't make any sense to work just to pay for daycare when I could work part time and stay home with her. But that's 4 weeks away, and I don't want to even think about it. AT ALL!!!

This is kind of short, there is so much more to tell and I will do my best to give you updates in a timely manner =)