The first few ....

The first three months is kind of a blur now. I was so excited to bring Addison home from the hospital. I remember thinking, " Do they really trust me to keep this baby alive?" Being home with a brand new baby is wayyyyy different than being in the hospital with all the help around. Being raised in a daycare I was pretty sure I knew everything about babies and that this would be a breeze. Ha! Boy was I wrong. The first night home was great. She woke every couple hours, nursed perfectly, and just mostly slept. The next night though was not so great to say the least. Addy had her days and nights mixed up and for about 6 hours straight we had a crying baby that would not sleep. This went on for a couple of weeks. What new born is even up for 6 hours straight?! She hated the cradle, the bassinet, and the pack and play. Finally, I went into survival mode and I popped that baby in the bed with me. We both slept amazing!!!! Thank God because all those sleepless nights led to my random crying sessions from exhaustion. Abe would go through the check list that he had written down in our baby care classes (what a waste those were lol) on postpartum depression. I would look at him with tears in my eyes and say, "I don't have postpartum because I really love our baby, I'm just really tired" We still laugh at that. Everyone says you have no idea what it's like to have a baby and boy is that and understatement! After a couple weeks of co-sleeping the baby started getting restless in bed and I decided to try the new rock and play we had picked up and Hallelujah the kid slept for 5 hours straight and continued to pretty much sleep well every night. The point of this whole story is that I have learned to go with your gut instinct. Everyone warned me not to sleep with the baby telling me horror stories on how we would never sleep in our bed alone EVER again. We slept perfectly and after a few weeks the baby had decided she didn't need that anymore. So do what you feel in your heart is the right thing and forget everything that everyone else says.

The beginning of our misadventures with Addison Rose

So I thought I might start a little blog for everyone to keep up with us and be a part of our never-boring always eventful life! We like to say that no matter what we do we always turn something so simple into a complete misadventure. That's just how we roll!

We'll just start this blog where our lives really began and that's August 8th, 2012. That was the day our sweet little girl was born.

After years of trying to get pregnant our time finally came. I went in for a regular "lady" doctors appointment expecting to hear nothing new just the same ol same ol that you deal with when you have "fertility issues". I had even told Abe not to worry about coming to this appointment because it was going to be so uneventful. Well to my surprise we were having a baby. Say what?!

I spent the next 9 months being a paranoid mess! When you try so hard for something you just assume that it's too good to be true. I waited for something to go terribly wrong but fortunately my pregnancy went as smooth as it could possibly go. I was due August 7th and when that date rolled around I felt totally normal and decided I could work just one more day. I got off work went for a two mile walk, which when you are 9 months pregnant is no easy feat. We had an impromptu BBQ with some family and friends and I went to bed. BOOM! 11:00 pm hit and contractions started. I really hate to be late so starting labor on my due date just made sense. I really wanted to go all natural with the whole birthing thing but after 10 hours of labor I decided maybe the next time I would ;). The anesthesiologist came in and I swear the heavens parted, the angels sang, and that man was here to save me! He walks over and starts to tell me all that he is going to do, and  because nothing goes totally smooth for us, he starts to open everything and then runs out saying "emergency c-section!" I cried, like literally, tears streaming down my face. lol. An hour and a half later I got the epidural and 3 1/2 hours later our baby girl was born. We hadn't known the gender before hand and I asked that Abe be the one to tell me and when he said "it's a girl!" I said "duh". I had known the whole time.

3 days later we brought our bundle of joy home and then the fun really began.............