happy halloween!
yay so livy had her first halloween! i had picked up this little glow in the dark skeleton onesie at walmart a couple weeks ago but my mom also wanted her to dress as a hippie so for about 10 minutes liv was a hippie baby. then her head wrap and glasses fell off.

then came skeleton baby :]

skeleton dad and skeleton baby

aaand shes spent

oh and my mom made cupcakes for everyone. so cute.

no time
i never have time to get online…i have time now..just nothing to say!
happy one month, liv!
wow, i havent updated in forever! i seriously have not had the time to get online long enough to do anything other than quickly check my email or facebook. i cant believe it, its been a whole month since i pushed this little baby out of me. on sunday, october 11th liv turned one month old. it feels like its been two weeks maybe, not a whole month. im excited for her to get a litle older because things will be easier but at the same time im so sad for her to grow and change and not be the same tiny little thing that she was. ive been writing down little things that i want to remember about her first month..i dont really have the time or energy to type them all out here in nice paragraph form but i do want them recorded so i think i’ll take the easy route..bullet form! :]
-sneaky face! she’ll look at you out of the corner of her eyes and smile..so cute
-she seems to like tummy time, or at least tolerates it most of the time. she so strong she holds her self up and scoots around.
-when lying on her back she can roll onto her side, but not all the way on to her stomach.
-she smiles all the time, she has since the very first day. and she’ll smile before and after she spits up, which she does A LOT.
-’o’ face. SO cute. forms her mouth into this tiny little ‘o’ shape and just looks at you.
-her hair has gone from super black, to a lot lighter. eyebrows too. in sunlight it looks light brown almost reddish. a lot of her hair has fallen out, mostly on top. she looks like a balding man :/ i know it’ll grow back though.
-still has blue eyes! pretty special considering she has dark hair but i’d still love for her to have been a brown eyed girl :]
-on friday the 9th she had her first sleepover! we slept at my moms house so her dad could go to a party with friends.
-the day before that we gave her gripe water for the first time to help with her gas. she loves it. started swaddling her again that night, slept for 5 hours straight! but now shes back to kicking herself out of the swaddle and sleeping for 45minutes to 2 or 3 hours.
-on sunday the 11th, the day she made one month me and my mom took her on her second outing..to the new babies r’ us and walmart in pearl city. she slept the entire time (thankfully).
-i think her first outing was the day she made 2 weeks. i took her down to the yarn shop to visit my mom and her friends. it wasnt planned and its kinda cute that the yarn shop was her first outing :]
on monday she had her one month checkup at the doctors. she weighs 9lbs now! i cant believe it. found out she has a bit of thrush in her mouth, nothing serious. got medicine drops for her, which she hates and spits out, but thats ok :] today, wednesday, she went to morning brew for the first time! outside actually, and she loved it. fell asleep there :]
awwww
first picture together

first bath

baby and baba (my dad)



baby liv
shes here! i had my baby on friday, september 11th at 12:39pm. she weighed 6lbs 15.4oz and was 19 1/2 inches long. we didnt name her till she was 4 days old…it was so hard to decide what we wanted her to be. we went with olivia cate kamanukīkahamālie. not gonna share her last name, for safety reasons. or privacy. or something. her hawaiian name means the bird soaring peacefully. and she is just that. the cutest little baby bird. 
so i had a birthday
i turned 24 on september 6th. it also marked my 39th week of pregnancy. i got a mint chocolate chip ice cream cake with sprinkles AND balloons on it. basically the best thing ever.


welllll
went on a walk last night. had about 7 contractions later, then they stopped. went on 2 walks today and so far i’ve have about 6 contractions. theyre not super consistent..some are about 6 minutes apart, others are 10. im not like doubled over in pain either but they are uncomfortable. and i feel a lot of pressure in my bottom. i have a doctors appointment scheduled for 9am tomorrow. we’ll see what happens…
12 days to go
…maybe.
night time has been really scary for me. i know im just being a big wuss but the unknown is scary! i’ve had a couple painful contractions in a row and she seems to move around so much, and kind of almost violently late at night. it hurts. and feels weird and new. and its scary. i just want my water to suddenly break and then i can go to the hospital and i’ll feel safer. they know what theyre doing there (for the most part at least). i wish i had a doctors appointment today so i could find out if im dilated anymore. i feel like i am.
with the help of some friends i’ve come up with couple possibilities for her hawaiian name..
palia – An endangered gray, yellow, and white Hawaiian honey creeper (Psittirostra bailleui, P. kona); endemic to the island of Hawaiʻi. Its bill is especially suited for opening māmane tree pods. Its only home is on Mauna Kea, Hawaiʻi.
manulani – heavenly bird
kamanuohoikala’i – bird in a peaceful sky
kalaokeola – the sunshine of life
the possibilities for a first name change everyday…
wren
tyler
rory
natalie
piper
brooke
lauren (my middle name)
arghhhhh i just dont know.
37 weeks and 4 days.
well i just came from my doctor appointment and i asked and she said they dont normally check for dilation until 40 weeks because there isnt really a huge reason to do so, but that she would check if i wanted. so i said yes, because im curious and good thing she did because she started freaking out about the babies head being ‘RIGHT THERE’ lol she just kept saying ‘oh my god wow its right there!’ she congratulated me on having a good pelvis and said im 2cm dilated and the head is at 0 station. i made an appointment for next thursday but she said i may not make it till then. then again, i could stay like this for another 2 weeks..no one really knows. my mom is in washington until monday so im under strict orders to not go into labor till at least monday night. i’ll do my best..i do really want her to be here but at the same time..how exciting would it be to have this baby already?!
…i’m going to have a daughter soon..for the rest of my life. HOLY. COW.

