Update: One Month

I can't believe that Sienna is already a month old. Most of the time it feels like she's been here forever and sometimes I am amzed that it was only 30 days ago that she was in my belly. She is a pretty good little girl. She's still a little confused by the whole night and day thing and is trying to figure out how to get rid of all the gas that she accumulates. She loves bath time and sleeping like a big girl on daddy's pillow....

One of our favorite silly things that she does is lifting her arms up in the air while she's sleeping for no particular reason. Nick calls it her zombie arms.

We've been trying to make sure that she is having tummy time. As well gaining an appreciation for drum corp (notice the I touch next to her...)

We even went to church on Sunday for the Christmas program. She was very irreverent during sacrament meeting. She filled her diaper loudly during the sacrament and then got the hiccups during our friend's solo. :) She didn't ever cry though and slept through sunday school.


She is getting so big to me. I feel like she is looking less like a newborn everyday and we even tried on some 0-3 month clothes tonight...not just yet. We hope everyone has a good holiday and we will be sure to post more about Sienna's first Christmas.

First Photo Shoot

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Sienna is Here!

Early friday morning around 4:30 I woke up and thought that my water might have broken. I wasn't sure because it wasn't a gush, all of our baby classes made sure to tell us that only 10% of women actually have their water break before they go to the hospital and I still had 12 days until my due date. I called labor and delivery about an hour later and they told me that I was probably right but to call back in an hour and let them know how it was going. By the time I called back my contractions were about 7 minutes apart and the back labor was killing me. We got to the hospital about 7:30 and went into triage. Unfortunately by this time I was feeling faint, nauseous and like ripping my hips out. They checked me to find that I was already at 5cm. Afterward my blood pressure dropped really low, I was dehydrated, Nick was looking concerned and the smell from the oxygen mask was horrible so I threw up :) They decided to admit me and very quickly hooked me up to an IV and a blood pressure cuff which took my blood pressure about one billion times that day. By 10:15 I was blissfully epiduraled up and was feeling 100% percent better.

Mom, Nick and I all took bets as to when she would finally get here and unfortunately we were all a couple of hours off the target. Sienna was doing what she had done my whole pregnancy...whatever she wanted when she wanted to do it. She was facing up instead of down and kept trying to escape the heart moniter. When they checked me again I was at a 9 but Sienna was still not facing the right way so they had me lay on my side to convince her to roll over. She eventually did but no one is really sure when but it wasn't then. Around 4 I started " practice pushing" which eventually lead to real pushing. After two long hours and one crazy black lady yelling at me she finally arrived at 6:03 pm.

Sienna was a surprise to me in so many ways. I had convinced myself that she was going to be a big baby, over due and bald. However, Miss Sienna showed up 12 days early weighing in at a "whooping" 6 lbs 12 oz with a beautiful baby mullet of blond hair. Everyone is doing well besides some jaundice and lack of sleep. She's wonderfully cute, so here are some pictures to reward you for sticking through the story.

Sienna Kate Hudson
11/19/10 ~6lbs 12oz ~19inches

Baby Showers

Sienna and I are some seriously loved and lucky girls. We had two and a half baby showers. The half is the small reception that I had at work for any parents that wanted to wish me well on my last day of work...presents were not excepted but definitely came.

My good friends Erin and Stacy threw my first shower in October for all of my friends from the ward and work. Everything was wonderfully pink and brown. Erin and Stacy went ALL out with delicious food, tricky games, and a candy/dessert station. It was so much fun and I'm so grateful for all of the love that I felt that day.

My second shower was the weekend after and was put on by my sisters and cousin Rachel who has been adopted in recently. This shower was for my family members and friends in the Elk Grove area. It is always so much fun to see all of my family and it was extra fun to see some friends that I hadn't seen in a while. There were so many presents for Sienna that I seriously opened gifts for over an hour! My favorite part was all the awesome children's books that came with each gift. My sisters did a great job decorating, with the refreshments and the activities. I just love them and am so thankful for all of their hard work on mine and Sienna's behalf.

After a shopping trip today to Babies R Us and Target using our gift cards we now have everything that need! Thank you to everyone that came to the showers to help celebrate and spoil this crazy little girl as well as myself. A special thank you to Erin, Stacy, Andi, Katie, Tracy, Samsonite and Rachel who put so much hard work and love into the planning of the showers.

Annoying vs Awesome...

A little pregnancy update for you. President Monson wants me to be postive and full of gratitude so I'll do the annoying first and leave on a postive note so that the last thing you think about after reading this is awesomeness. I'm so nice huh?

Annoying things about being pregnant:

*Brick feet. more commonly known as plain old swollen feet...where your toes feel like they might shoot off of your feet...
*Congestion. I feel like I've had a cold for four months now...and I breathe really loud, just ask my husband
*Maternity pants...by themselves are awesome but mixed with the fact that they pull down my garmet top all the time, not cool.
*Alien baby making it hard to sleep and occasionally feels like she's trying to pry her way out of my stomach...Sienna mom does NOT like that.

Awesome things about being pregnant:

*I can get fat and people are okay with that
*Feeling Sienna kick and watching my stomach move...awesome and a little creepy
*My black maternity pants... I might wear them even when I'm not pregnant
*Getting to have parties and open presents when it's not my birthday or Christmas.
*Having an excuse to wear flip flops all the time (see swollen feet)
*Taking naps on Saturdays AND Sundays

There's more stuff for each catergory but those are what I got for now. Things are going well and I'm pretty sure that she is getting crazier by the day. I'll be sure to post more pictures after my shower on Saturday!

Happy Birthday Pretty!

Happy Birthday today to my favorite person EVER. He makes me super crazy sometimes but I'm sure that I return the favor frequently. This year Nicholas turns the big 3-0 so I wanted to do something a little more special than I have in the past. I decided to throw him a small party this past weekend at our friend's house complete with Buffalo Wild Wings (I'm so glad the new one opened in Citrus Heights because I was truly preparing to go to Reno to get them...they're the best wings EVER.) and rootbeer. I found some awesome beer mugs at the Dollar Store that I etched with the last intial of everyone that came and of course also scored a sweet pin the treasure on the map game.

We had a lot of fun stuffing ourselves with wings and just getting to spend time with our friends. We are so glad that everyone was able to come and celebrate with us.

Here are a few other pictures from the night including Nick opening presents and blowing out his candle. Oh and in case you were wondering what to do with about a 100 wing bones, you can spell out awesome messages with them. Gross? Yes. Awesome? A little bit.

Thanks again everyone and happy birthday babe.

Air Show!

One thing that we love about Rancho Cordova is that Air Show is so close to us. In years past we have just listened to the jets fly by our apartment and watch from right outside. This year Nick bought tickets so that we could actually go to Mather, check out all the airplanes, jets and helicopters as well as have front row seats to the show. Nick especially loves helicopters and I love Jelly Bellys so here are a couple of pictures reflecting our loves.

Besides seeing the cool displays we also enjoyed a Merlinos, the actual show and getting our own LiveCopter from the KCRA booth for Sienna. The guy handing them out must have really loved us because he was ONLY giving them out to actual children, but made an exception for us.

We loved that guy too, so we took our only picture together in front of the real LiveCopter 3...

We had a lot of fun checking everything out and talking to some cool people. We did however also learn somethings that we will definitely have to remember for next year: Bring an umbrella for shade, wear sunscreen and no matter how close you live paying the ten dollars to park is worth it over the long walk.