Sam the Pro

Olivia was being really cute on the floor and had a captive audience...then she ripped one. We checked her diaper and wouldn't you know it, yellow goo everywhere. Sam looked and it and thought it was disgusting and said she stunk. So I asked Sam if she wanted to change her (by the way Sam is the biggest germ-a-phob on the planet). She gave me the stink eye and I told her she could use her latex gloves that she uses for taking out the garbage. So she went and got her gloves and went to work. She struggled a little since it was her first time changing a baby, but with a little help from Mom she conquered the poopy diaper. As she was snapping up her outfit her leg got stuck inside and Sam said "Come on little lady". It was so cute to watch her change her.

Baby Olivia Jill Smith

Olivia was born on December 29, 2009 at 3:45. 20 Inches long and 7lbs 7 oz.

FALSE ALARM

I went in for my ultrasound and she is just fine. What a difference having a REALLY nice ultrasound machine makes. She has plenty of fluid and her tummy is measuring perfect. It said she was measuring at 38weeks and 2 days...which was right on. And she is definitely an Olivia and not Oliver, thank goodness! I guess she is going to be tall because at both of my recent ultrasounds they said, "she's going to be tall, is the father tall?" Now Andrew is asking me, "Is the father tall?" He thinks he's so funny (probably because he is).

Amniotic fluid

On Thursday I was supposed to leave for Seattle at 2:35...but of course Reno is lame and my flight was delayed until almost 5. Our plane finally arrived and as we were taking off Olivia went NUTS! She didn't stop kicking and moving until the plane leveled out at its cruising altitude. Then as we were landing, same thing! I just about peed my pants and if the decent were any longer I probably would have from her kicking my bladder so hard. So the plane landed and I was so happy to be in Seattle. Then over the intercom they told us we might want to sit down because they can't pull the jet way up because there has been a security breech in the terminal (isn't that what the security check point is for?) So I got to sit on the plane for another 15 minutes thinking, just let me off the plane and I will kill whoever is causing this stupid security thing. But I made it home : )
Friday morning I went to my new doctor who is going to deliver Olivia. After about 15 minutes she had already talked to me more than my Dr in Winnemucca did the whole 8 months I saw him. As she was doing an ultrasound on my belly she found out it was a BOY! Just kidding! But she did find that her abdomen is measuring at about 35 weeks and she said she didn't see enough amniotic fluid. So I have to go in tomorrow for another ultrasound in the hospital, because I guess sometimes the baby will shift and they can find more amniotic fluid. But if they don't find anymore they might have to take her early C-section. The problem with not having enough fluid is her umbilical cord can get pinched so she doesn't get enough nutrients and oxygen. She said that everything else looks really healthy and that if she were stressed she wouldn't be doing some of the things she saw, so that's a good sign. They did a stress test to see how her heart rate was doing. I guess baby's hearts will spike and then calm down and spike and calm down, to practice for when you get scared and your heart rate goes up. So they strapped the machine to my belly and I sat there for about 15 minutes listening to her heart beat. After a while her heartbeat didn't spike, so the Dr got this little buzzer thing and said she was going to put it on my belly to wake her up. The Dr tested it on me and that's all it took, her heart rate went zooming up from 145 to about 175 (the highest it went the whole time). So all she needed was the threat of being buzzed, it was pretty funny.

FREE TREE

Because I am leaving Dec 10th to go to Seattle, I decided that I didn't need to get a Christmas tree this year. I was a little sad about it, but okay with it because I will be gone for most of the month. But as I was talking to my tenant, she asked if I had a tree and told me that she had an extra one. So she brought it over and gave us a 6 ft fake christmas tree. I was so excited! Andrew and I went to Wal-Mart and bought some lights. It only has one ornament from my mom that says Baby's First Christmas...but it's still so much fun to have a tree up! I LOVE CHRISTMAS TIME!

Almost Done

I have less than a week left of work until I officially quit, but I have already turned over all of my duties over to the people I have been training, so really it's like I have already quit. I thought I would be really excited about leaving, but I am starting to get a little sad.
Things I will NOT miss:
1. Being called right after the pharmacy closes to let me know that someone is out of meds
2. Wiping the butts of grown men
3. Having my hair pulled, being slapped, pushed, punched, and screamed at
4. Being interupted at dinner to have to rush to the pharmacy before they close
5. Going to the pharmacy just about everyday
6. Having poop smeared on me

Things I will miss:
1. Angel aka Meho saying "I want you to sit down please"
2. Deandra teling me I'm pretty
3. David's quiet chuckles to himself
4. Eric telling me he watched Bob Bark and that someone won a car
5. Cody screaming "DANGER" and "I wanna go home" everywhere we go
6. John saying Hi to me until I respond to him
7. Lena's cackle
8. Erin letting me know about all her Dr appointments and meds (like I don't know already : )
9. Blane singing Happy Birthday
10. Cheryl always asking me "How you doing girl" and walking me to the car when its dark
11. All the clients at Sonoma Industries treating me like a celebrity when I walk in the door

Some of my favorite memories of working with the clients:
1. Music in the background--Go Shorty, it's your birthday, were gonna party like its your birthday and Meho shouting "DECEMBER" because thats when his birthday is
2. Going to Denny's with Cody and having some strangers pay for our lunch even though Cody was screaming at the top of his lungs the whole time we were there
3. Cody screaming "Donna!" at Donna's memorial service as all the ballons were floating up to her in heaven with everyones notes attached to the ballons
4. Blane getting hit in the head and getting really angry at the automatic closing hatch on the car

As much as I complained about my job, I really grew to love all of the clients (even though we are not friends, we are staff).

TIME FLIES WHEN YOUR HAVING FUN

I guess I have been having alot of fun lately because it feels like it should be about Sept 3rd and not October 12th. Don't get me wrong, I love the fact that its getting colder and that Christmas is just around the corner, but it seems like the months are just zooming past. In August I was thinking, wasn't it just July 1st? Then in September I was thinking, wasn't it just August 1st? And now in October I am thinking, wasn't it just September 1st? I wouldn't mind time slowing down a little bit so I can enjoy my last few months of being childless and carefree, not having to schedual my day around naptime, mealtime, and will you ever stop crying time. So Father Time, just because you don't enjoy your job and want to hand it over to the new Baby New Year doesn't mean you can keep making time fly!