One Down...

People always say how much joy a child brings into your life but you can never fully understand until you experience it yourself. Audriana is one month today. The time has flown by. It is bittersweet really. I can't wait to see what the future holds but at the same time I want her to stay little forever. Audri, like her momma, loves to be cuddled. She HATES her bottom changed and don't mess with her when she is hungry. When we were in the hospital one of the nurses told us she was a "ferocious eater" and man was she right. Both Ricky and I are loving being parents to such a sweet little girl. So here is to one month down and eternity to go.

Photo shoot

Audriana had her newborn pictures taken a few weeks back and we just got them in. They turned out better than I ever could have imagined.



Ouch! That hurt!

Where have the last two weeks gone? One minute I was being admitted to the hospital to be induced and the next I was sitting in the pediatricians office for Audri's two week visit. Can someone please tell Father Time I would greatly appreciate it if he could slow things down just a bit.

Our sweet little girl weighed in at 7 pounds and 7 ounces. She was still 20 inches long.

Poor Ricky was traumatized at this visit. I had previously told him about the PKU test and what it entailed but he completely forgot. He just "happened" to be holding her when the nurse asked for her heel. Audri was happy and content one minute and screaming the next. Once the nurse had finished and left the room he let me know that that was the worst experience of his life. 

How cute are little baby feet?

Just Because

One day at work before I went on maternity leave a delivery man walked in with these beauties.

Flowers rarely come my way so when he said I have a delivery for Amy Martinez you can imagine my surprise. My sweet and thoughtful husband sent them just to say I love you. The best part was the card and for all you bachelorette fans you will know what I am talking about when it said "I will guard and protect your heart." I had a good laugh. So here is a big THANK YOU to my wonderful husband for the gorgeous flowers and for keeping me laughing.

Cooked

Lucy love love loves to bask in the sun on the back deck. I let her out a couple weeks ago and when she finally came back in I guess she had been outside way too long. I found her on the couch like this...

September 7, 2010

She has finally made her appearance. Audriana May Martinez born at 11:34 on 9/7/10 after one very long day of labor. She weighed in at 6 pounds 13 ounces and was 20 inches long.

Our first family photo

Sleeping with mom at the hospital

Proud daddy with his sweet girl.

Come and Gone

That's right my due date has come and gone. It seems our little girl is much to comfortable in there to want to come out. We went to the dr's this past Tuesday (her actual due date) and we were hoping he would say I could be induced on Thursday but no such luck. I still had not progressed from being a 1 so he said he wanted to wait one week. We now have an official due date of September 7th. That is if she doesn't come before. Doubtful that she will. So here is to being as patient as possible and looking forward to meeting our sweet little bundle of joy in 4 days.

Grocery Shopping

Dear Lady waiting to check out,

     I know you must be in a hurry but since this is walmart NOTHING ever goes fast here. Ramming your cart up my rear end will not make the cashier or the credit card machine go any faster so PLEASE back off and give me at least enough space so that I can fit in between your cart and mine.

Thank you ever so kindly,
                     The lady who had to use a crow bar to get your cart unstuck.

You never know what to expect when running to walmart and the other day I have to say for the first time ever I was wedged between two carts and the lady wedging me did NOT care at all. I was in the check out line and had a lot of stuff. I was standing to the side of my cart loading the groceries as the cashier rang them up. As she got closer the the end of my items I stepped back to the top of my cart so I could pay for my items. As I was standing there a lady about mid 40's came and put her few items on the belt. As her items moved closer and closer to the scanner so did she. I noticed she was getting a little too close if you know what I mean and I scooted as close to my cart as possible (with a pregnant belly it's not as easy as it used to be.) I ran my card through the machine and was just waiting for it to process when the next thing I knew she was hitting my ever so lovely ghetto booty with her cart. If you know me at all I am not one to say anything so I shot her a NASTY look which she did not even notice. I didn't know if she wanted to give me a ride or just pay for my groceries so she could get out of there faster. Needless to say I collected my groceries shooting her another nasty glare (again she took no notice) and left. My question is who doesn't know when there cart has hit something and then look to see what it is and when you notice it is a persons say I am sorry? Only at walmart would you find a person like that.