What have we been up to in Month 2

Well, we've been doing a lot but mostly exploring the outdoors would be our new thing. We just went up to Rocky Mountain National Park and had a great time. A bit chilly but beautiful. We had no problems with altitude sickness. Other things we've done this month is get ready for football season. Between fantasy football and the Broncos new team, there's bee a lot of chatter going on in the basement, where Joel "works". I've also joined a French club for moms so Magali and I are speaking french every Monday mornings.

We'll be going to the Dr. in about a week to due our 2 month's check-up and will be talking to him about our little breathing problem. For those of you who already know and those that do not, Magali has Tracheomalacia. It makes her sound as if she is struggling to breath but she really isn't'. It's scarier on us than on her. Even though he has reassured us numerous times that she is fine and will grow out of it, we really want more information. Plus, I WANT IT TO STOP. Having people stair at you in horror isn't fun when you're trying to shop for fabric.

Any who, everything has been going great and I'll be trying to post more often as we are now starting to have a more formal schedule....plus she's sometimes sleeping through the entire night, yes, more than 6 hours.

NO MORE WORK!

It's official. I have given my notice and will not be going back to work...for now. So you all know what that means, donations to the, "it takes a village to raise Magali," fund will gladly be accepted.

Also, I've started a Shutterfly website for pics and video's so I don't have to upload them all the time. You can go to http://magalivioletmurray.shutterfly.com/

See y'all later

The belly sleep

Yes, I know, back is best. But what would happen if Magali slept on her stomach? She would resemble Joel when he was her age. I couldn't get the picture of Joel out of the photo album but I guess that was the preferred sleeping position of daddy.

Magali's first month

With all the excitement, I haven't posted in forever. What have we been up too, well everything. Most of you have gotten our emails and know that we've been busy with new adventures with Magali. I've also been trying to get myself into a routine so that we can get ourselves out and about and try new things. Posting to this blog is one of them.

Today's new adventure was trying out our crib for the first time. In transitioning from the bassinet to the crib, I though we would take it slow and do afternoon naps in the crib. Magali loves it and these last two naps have been the longest sleep she's ever taken during the day. Mommy has found the answer!

Magali is here.

Well, it's been three weeks since writing any posts on this blog but most of you already know that baby Magali has arrived. Here is my rendition of how she came into this world.

So here's the labor story. I went in on Sunday to have my cervix "ripened" at 8 pm. I started out at 2 cm dilated. So all they do is give you this pill. At 1:30 am my water broke with was not a result of the pill they gave me, according to the nurse. Has light labor all night and slept through most of them. At 6 am, was dilated to 4 cm with still light labor and then they gave me the Pitocin to get me into labor. At 7 am, started having some not so nice contractions and didn't think this was any fun anymore. At 7:30, screamed for an epidural, thinking I'm a wimp for getting one at 4 cm dilated. At 8:15, got my epidural and wanted to take a nap before labor would start. At 8:45, started feeling contractions and didn't think that was normal. Baby's heartbeat had disappeared and the nurses, couldn't find it (thought she was incompetent at the time). At 9:00 made a comment to the nurse that every time I has having a contraction, it felt like "his head is coming out". Nurse laughs at me and actually writes this in the charts to never be able to deleted...ever again. Nurse checks Cheryl's stupid comment about "his head is coming out". Nurse screams at Cheryl that whatever she does, she doesn't push because the baby's head is almost OUT and they don't have a Dr. on the floor at that time. At 9:14, Dr. arrives and Cheryl and Dr. have a conversation about her cute shoes. Cheryl pushes twice thinking this isn't really labor because I'm in no pain and I now have a baby girl looking at me.

So pretty much I went from 6 cm dilated to 10 cm in about 45 minutes. Thank God for epidural and how quick they work.