Alright, I am back!!!!! And I am happy to report that I am no longer with child... She is happly sleeping in my arms instead 

Stats....

Hailey Marie Thompson was born at 3:36 am on January 9th 2006 at Kaiser Medical Center Santa Rosa. She weighed in at a healthy 7lbs 13oz and was 20 inch long  And perfect in every way you could imagine.

 So the story goes like this. I started labor at about 4:00 am on Sunday. I was feeling kinda cramp but nothing that I got to excited over as that's the way I had been feeling for weeks. I was already way past my limit of being pregnant and way praying that this was really going to be it. I decided if that this was going to be it that I better close my eyes and try to get as much sleep as I could. So after tossing and turning for a bit I was able to fall back asleep and slept till about 9:00. It was so nice to sleep 

The contractions continued to come and go and get just a little bit stronger all day long. My best girl friend came and got Nik at around 11:00 so that Mike and I could weather the process. Buy this time I was pretty convinced that this was the real deal. My sister also stopped by so that she could take me to walk, I kept hoping that if I walked my water would break and all would be over faster. Nice try on that one  I swear we walked around the block for three days.  Any way after a few trips around the block and a few video game rests in between my contractions seems to kick it up a notch. I was still thrilled to be in labor and wasn't to bothered by the contraction. So we sent my sister home and Mike drew me a bath and I hung out in there for a good three hrs or so.

After some convincing Mike was able to get me out of the bath. He said that I really should go get checked as it had been a long day and he wanted to make sure that both little girl and I were still doing o.k.

I think at this point I really started to get scared. I had flash backs of what happened to Nik and I in the hospital and I was having to face those fears. I told Mike that I wasn't going to the hospital and that there was no reason to get checked. He of course, my grounder, my saving grace, was able to  talk me back down to a sane level of consciences and convinced me that if we went and this was truly nothing that we could come back home to the comfort of our home. I made him promise, promise( that's a huge promise in our house) that he would keep his word.

So I jumped in the car and off we went. The hospital is only about 15 min from our house so it didn't take much time to get there. By now its about 7:00 in the evening.

So we get there and do all the regular stuff, sign paper work and change into the gown and get hooked up to the monitors. They gave me the, "oh yeah, you are having contractions" O.K and then the doctor arrives...

This was such a tense moment for me, again flash backs of Nik, what if I am not going to dilate on my own? What if I am in false labor again??? As soon as she walked in the tears flowed it was nuts. Mike again, was wonderful held my hand and told that all was going to be O.K. He was so right all was going to be O.K cus I was at 5 cm. 5 whole cm... That's a whole cm past what I was able to dilate on my own with Nik. I was thrilled. So the Doctor looked at me and said that we were going to stay.

I spent the next few hrs in and out of the shower and slowly going cm by cm up to about 7cm. I was so please that my body wasn't going to fail me this time. We were going to do this. Around 7 cm I had had just about enough of the contractions. I was exhausted and ready to have this process be finished so I elected to have an epidural.

The epidural itself went perfectly although I had my now usual freak out session as it was happening. A wonderful midwife came in and did a visualizing technique with me that helped me to relax a bit. It was so hard for me as I was going through transition also so my body was just shaking like no other. I was unable to control it. But again she was great she held me still and they were able to make everything work out perfectly.

Now the fun part, I swear they put the epidual in and with in minutes it was time to push. Well, Mike said it was about an hr and I was dosing in and out that's why it didn't seem to take that long.

I woke up from one of my cat naps to this unreal erge to have a bowel movement.  O.K Hello.... this is my second child. You would have thought that I felt all there was to feel while trying to birth the first one. I looked over at Mike and told him what was going on and that I needed to get up NOW and get to the bathroom. I was freaking out, it hurt so bad. Yeah well, no one told me that that's what it feels like when you push your baby out!!!! The nurse came in, who mind you was a man, and was the most wonderful male nurse I have ever had, and Mike told him about the situation. The nurse, who's name was Rus, bent down and kind of giggled at me and said honey that's the baby.

From this moment on things happened so fast. Rus gave me a very quick lesson on the "he he he hoooooo" breathing.  Which came out from me more like "he he he h eh hehe heh hhooohohohooo" but it seemed to do the trick and with in about 10 min I was on my back and my legs up in the air pushing out my little angel.

A funny part of this whole birth happened while I was pushing her out. O.K, I am still under the impression that the epidual is supposed to stop the pain down there. Yeah nope it didn't, which I was O.K with as long as this kid was coming in the next few min. So the doc is ready and I am pushing and Now I feel like I am just about to break in half. The whole ring of fire stuff they tell you about in book. Oh yeah it's real and it hurts like HELL. The Doc looks and me and says the baby's head is right here wanna touch it?????

This is no joke, I looked right and her and told her that is she didn't pull the F****ing kid out  I was going to break in two. She kind of laughed and said to me O.K then push. So I pushed again.  Out came Hailey's head. I felt a very small amount of relief. 

I have to break and put in this little note. As all of this is happening I can see my husband in the background jumping around and getting a good look and attempting to take pictures along with hearing from him how wonderful I am doing. When Haileys head came out I hear from him "OH MY GOD, there is her head honey, her head is out."And then I hear another, she is almost here honey push. It was so cute. I can't describe how neat it was to see him and the look on his face 

O.K back to the story so, the Doc says once again, we are going to wait just a min so that everything stretches so you don't tear, just breath..... Once again, Potty mouth Thompson shows up and I let her have it with every cus word I knew. I felt so bad after everything was done, but don't tell a pushing women who is so close to delivery that she can't push anymore its just not nice 

Finally she said O.K one last push. I gave it one last push and out came my baby girl.  

This is my favorate part of the delivery. With Nik, I couldn't have him on my chest nor could I ever really see him for the first 45 min of his life. I was very and still am a bit bitter about that. I really wanted to have those first few min with my child.

Well, when Hailey came out they put her right there on my chest. Belly to belly. I cried like a baby.... She was laying there and they were cleaning her up and Mike and I were able to look at her and talk to her. They had turned down the lights so it was almost like it was candle light in the room. I was the most wonderful experience. She came out perfect and I no joke felt great!!!! Soon as the placenta came out I asked what the damage was. I was so afraid that I had torn where I had torn before. It felt like I was splitting in two so who knew. The Doctor looked at me and said I think I will put just one or two little stitches in just to be safe but overall you look great!!! I was thrilled. So not only had I gotten my perfect child, I had had a perfect delivery too. 

We then moved into the recovery room about an hr later and not once during that hr did they take Hailey from me. The finally asked if they could give her a bath and I told then that was fine but she didn't even leave the room. It was wonderful!!!!!!

So later on Monday I spoke with the Doctor and told them I wanted to go home and since all checked out well little girl and I went home at 3:00 the day she was born  It was so nice to be home 

So now to caught up on this past week. So far life has been great. My little man is adjusting perfectly to little girl being here. His first want was to play cars with Sissy and sure enough every time he plays cars he gets Sissy a car to play with too. We set the car on little girls blanket and he just thinks its neat.

When him and Dad take off to the store to get something and he walks in the door when getting back he yells for "The Mamma and Sissy" and not to mention when its time for bed he gives Sissy a kiss first then The Mamma. How cute??????

Little girl is doing great on her feedings and is getting up to 12 oz of breast milk each day, I am supplementing still to make sure she gets enough food. Another part of my body that didn't work last time that works now  I am thrilled 

She sleeps really well and only seems to wake up at about 2:30 or 3:30 in the morning to feed the other two feedings are at 11:00 and 5:30 or 6:30 so we seem to be doing well so far 

OK I think that's enough typing for now. I am going to go see what everyone is doing. I think they are all taking a nap. Maybe I should join them. I will post pictures soon

Today is her due date.  and I still am sitting her waiting for labor to begin  Why does she have to do this to her Momma???? We can't wait to meet her and love her and hug her??? But no, she has to find her own time and not tell anyone when she is coming!!!!! I swear is this what it's going to be like having a girl?? 

I am just going to put it out there that we are ready and waiting for you little girl and can't wait for you to be in our arms instead of in my tummy. 

On other news, little dude was feeling pretty crappy yesterday from the shots he got. I felt so bad. He has been pretty healthy so far, knock on wood, so to see the poor little man sick was not so fun.

It was my little brothers 19th birthday yesterday so we drove down to Ma's house to celebrate. It was nice. C.J and Dad love to play with little man. The whole way down to Novato all Nik kept saying was. "Play car, Papa.." and "Gamypapa house"  It was to fun. Then as soon as my father walked in the door from work Nik attached himself to him so they could "Play cars".

We also got all of the computer stuff moved into the new office. I love it. The desk that we have up hear makes the room look small but I have a ton of desk space and all of my equipment is all where it needs to be with the wires moved out of the way. It really looks nice. So today I will get the rest of the paper work and files and such moved up here so that it's all out of Hailey's room. We may still change the desk that is up here but overall I love the feeling of working up here. It's very nice. Plus I can see outside the window too. I have my own corner office  HE HE HE.

Well, if labor decides to start anytime soon  I will post again but as of now 6:55 am we are still waiting

Today is a very sad day. Grandma Sacramento passed at 9:20 this morning 

Sacramento, Amparo Alcordo

Amparo passed on peacefully with the Lord’s blessings at San Leandro Hospital on Friday morning, January 6th, surrounded by her family. She died at age 86, 18 months after her beloved husband Benny. Amparo was a soldier’s wife for over 59 years. Together they raised 6 children and traveled from one military assignment to another in California, France, Hawaii, South Carolina, Okinawa, and New Jersey. She and Benny retired to San Leandro in 1969,

Amparo was active on the boards of several social organizations including The Ormocanon, the Tanay Club of America, and the Filipino Senior Citizens of San Francisco.

Although she retired as a civil service employee, Amparo’s primary work was as a devoted wife and loving mother & grandmother. She is survived by her children: Tony & Sharon, Ben & Telly, Cecilia & Rudy, Ed & Liza, Joe & Stella, Teresa & J, her grandchildren: Mike & Shanea, Deborah & Antonio, BJ, Robert, Greg, Rachel, Nathan and Jason, and great grandchildren: Nikolas & Hailey Marie. Along with her many cousins, nephews and nieces, they will forever remember Amparo in their minds and hearts.

Friends are invited to Prayer Services, Thursday January 12th at 7:00pm at St. Felicitas Church. Funeral Mass at St. Felicitas will be on Friday January 13th at 9:30am, followed by the Burial Service at Holy Sepulcher Cemetery in Hayward.

1 day till she is offically due...

As for us, we are still waiting. I am having contractions ever 6-7 min but I swear that's the same I have been having for the last month so I am not excited about it. They just won't get any tougher. So we wait...  I do have to say that I have never in my life been in so much pain. I just don't understand why it hurts so much. I feel like someone has broken my pelivic bone and everytime I get up to move I am shifting it around to grind on itself. UGH!!! This part I can't wait to be over with. Knowing that she will be here in a few hrs once labor starts will help me to deal with the pain. But this not knowing is killing me.

So last night I did have a dream that I had Hailey, She was SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO cute!!!! She had this little pudgy face and these long long eye lashes like her Daddy. I can't stand it. She was wrapped up in one of the pink blankets that I got her. She was just so cute. And it was so odd cus I was standing over her looking at her in the little carrier and drinking a glass of wine as she looked up at me and got excited to see me and smiled... it was too funny. I was shocked that she smiled at me. But then I called and talked to my Mom about how cute she was and all that jazz. Humm, can you tell I am excited about it 

Our final inspection is today on the room that was built. It's soooo cool. I will post pictures of it.  As soon as the guy leaves we will start to move all of our stuff up there  I can't wait. Then Mike is going to start on Hailey's room  YEAH!!!!  
Last night for dinner we went over to Christal's house. I love having her so close. She lives about a block from us. She has turned out to be such  a good friend. I have not idea how I was lucky enough to get to meet her.

She is the first contact after my mother when we go into labor she is going to take care of Nik for us so that he can still sleep in his own bed. She said that she will just stay the night here so that little dude can sleep good  Really she has been so wonderful.

Last week, we always get together on Wed nights, I was feeling really down in the dumps and it was my turn to cook and have her and Alex over for dinner. I called her early in the afternoon and told her I was just feeling like crap and didn't have the energy to do much of anything. And I was also being a royal B** and I was sure she didn't want to come be around that.

Her response was.... You like chicken don't you? My response... Yeah. Why? Her response.... I will see you at 6:00 I am making dinner and if you get off the couch while I am there I will be very upset with you.

My best buddy comes over with a complete dinner and dessert. Not only does she serve it up. She feeds my child and hers then cleans up the dishes too.  How sweet is that??? HELLLO, you don't get friends like that. She made me feel so wonderful and blessed to know I have someone who I can count on like that. It was one of the nicest things anyone has done for me. It meant so much!!!!

Anyway. I am looking forward to her getting PG and having her 2nd so that I can repay the favor.  After I am done feeling the way I am I think I am going to make something really nice for her. Not sure what yet but I will figure it out.

Life is wonderful when you have friends and family like I have. I am truly a blessed person.
Alright, I am going to try to organize the office so when the inspector leaves we can start to organize.

All is well here. Although we are still prego... 3 days to go.....

I am listening to the sounds of saws upstairs. They are just about finished with the remodel upstairs. It looks really great!!

We should be able to have the final inspection by tomorrow then we can start to put in the furniture and call it done  That's gonna be nice 

This weekend was pretty much uneventful. We stayed in and painted the room and watched TV. It rained so hard all weekend you couldn't really go anywhere. There was flooding everywhere. Made it nice to be home with my boys.

O.K so as I am putting together this entry my husband just took Nik to the Doc and he got him the flu shot too. ARGH!! I could just shot him. Hello!!!!! Me and most of my family is allergic to the dam shot and he has to go and do something like that right before I give birth. UGH I swear. So I am watching little guy  to make sure he does not get a reaction to it.

I swear....

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And yes there is still no Hailey!!!

We have 7 days left..... 

I am feeling O.K I have been a bit crampy and have been hoping that it will turn into something a little bit more then just cramps. But we will see.

We finally got little girls car seat cover after the drier ate the old one. That makes me feel a lot better now too. Mike said he would install the base into the car today so it's all ready to go 

I also pulled out the diapers that I saved from when Nik was a little tiny guy.  I can't get over how cute they are. They are sooooo little.

So we are supposed to go for family pictures today. I am so not please about this. My face is swollen, I look like a huge blimp and feel even worse and now I have to go smile for the camera!! UGH. I can understand that Mike and his family want to take pictures. It been about  3 years now.  I am trying to be a good sport about it, really I am but that doesn't make me feel any better about doing it.

Little dude just woke up so I am going to go love him 

Oh before I go. I found this online from our registry from Nik I wanted to save it its just too cute!!! Mike put it together for me.

Inspiration Here is the inspration to the baby's room theme. This is a picture of Snoopy from the "Snoopy on Ice" show that we attended in December. Shanea and I are both fans of the adorable Beagle.	The best gift is still to come Here is the star of our show at seven months into her pregnancy. We may have a lot of Christmas presents under the tree, but the best gift (Nikolas) wont be delivered until sometime in March. Isn't she beautiful?	Almost Done! The old guest room is nearing its transformation into Nik’s new room. We've completely remodeled it. In this pic, the old, single pane, aluminum window has been replaced with a warm, double pane, vinyl window. Also, a new windowsill has been added and new paint has been applied.	New Paint Does Wonders Here’s a closer look at the new paint. The two colors look great together.
Never Ending Project Although it seemed like the never-ending project, I really enjoyed preparing the room for Nik's arrival.	90% Complete Well, it needs some finishing touches like wood blinds, but here’s a pic of the completed room. Notice the new window trim, windowsill, chair molding, crown molding, baseboards and even new carpet. We absolutely love it!	Snoopy Boarder This is the boarder that set the tone for the room. It turned out even better than we had imagined. This boarder is sentimental to us. It was purchased directly from the Schultz Museum, which is located only ten minutes from us.	A Nice Start Nik’s not due for another 51 days. But we just had to start filling up his closet with adorable outfits. My mother in law keeps telling me not purchase clothes for him because we'll get plenty at the shower. But I just can’t help myself. They're just too darned cute to pass up.
That's my prego! Here we are nearing the finish line. 50 days left and counting. I sure will miss feeling her tummy move, but look forward to the joy and excitement that lies ahead.	Rocker Glider and New Crib	Crib Close up	Dresser and Toy Box
The Cutest Lamp We've Ever Seen	Mobile The Mobile is absolutely Adorable. It plays "Twinkle, twinkle, little star" and moves the baby Snoopys around and around	Nikolas Shanea's sister did a wonderful job hand painting the letters to attach to the door to his room. Each letter has a different theme. She even painted ducks on the "N" in recognition of my love for duck hunting. Thanks Mena!