I am alive

Arnold has been telling me for a few days now that I need to blog. I have been wanting to, but every spare minute I have has been quite consumed lately! However, I have a few minutes tonight. Arnold is holding Peyton, and she's bright eyed and looking around at everything at the moment. Let's hope it lasts. (Last night was not fun...)
I wanted to start by commenting on my labor and delivery and to tell those of you who are having babies to GET AN EPIDURAL! Of course I was enduced, so I'm sure that made the contractions worse than normal, but the epidural is so wonderful. I wanted to kiss that anestheiologist(not sure if that's spelled correctly). Anyway, everything went pretty good. We had a "You're going to have to have a c-section" scare from the doctor right before she broke my water, but after some fluids and an oxygen mask, her heart rate stopped dipping. My hospital stay was wonderful, as crazy as that sounds. I highly recommend East Jefferson...extremely friendly staff, pretty good food. I was sad to come home because I like being waited on hand and foot. :)
Now since I've been home, it's been interesting. My mom came and stayed for a week. She worked herself to death cleaning and waking up very early in the morning to take a shift with the baby. Boy was that nice. Thank goodness for Arnold though. He's been so wonderful to stay up with her half the night. I get up and feed and then go back to bed for another two hours or so, however long it takes for her tummy to growl again. Then at some point he will go to bed and I will stay up. The pretty nursery has become our everything room. We moved the tv in there, we sleep in there, we eat in there sometimes. And you know, I've never been so sleep deprived in all my life. I'm sure there are plenty of mispelled words in this blog. But I'm loving every second with her. She is so adorable, as you can see from the pictures! She's only 13 days old and I love her so much! I get so worried over the least little thing, and I've never been a worry wart. I guess such is the life of a new parent.
For everyone who has brought food, said a prayer, or offered a helping hand, we say a BIG THANK YOU!
I hope to see some of you soon. If anyone wants to come by, please give me a call. We're not taking her out in public yet, but are happy to have company (unless you're sick).

Joy