Happy one week day Alice! Go ahead and get some hugs from big brother!

Since she still has her umbilical cord scabby we can't give Alice a full bath and we have to do little towel baths. It started out Ok. I layed out a towel and got the water nice and warm. I started with her legs and at first she was really liking it. Then the warm wet places started getting cold and she lost it! She got so upset and was screaming like we have never heard before.

I tried to be quick and keep her as comfratable as possible. This baby girl is all about being warm and snuggy. Once we got her dry and wrapped she stopped crying immediatley and was our happy sweet Alice again.

We have been so tired, what with new baby and all. Derek was getting some milk(that we had thanks to Angie who saved our stomachs since I was on my way to fill my empty fridge when I went into labor and she filled it for us. My hero!)out of the fridge and just dropped it. The lid was on but the whole gallon jug just cracked and milk went everywhere. HAHA Poor tired daddy.

She's here! She's here! She's here! She was born at 1:49 PM, at 8 pounds 1 ounce. She is just cute as can be and we are so happy that we have her.World, meet Alice Ann Oliver.
I went into labor at about 7:00 in the morning but I thought it was a false alarm so I didn't call anyone. Just to be safe I measured the contractions and they were 4 minutes apart. Derek called and when I told him he rushed home. I still had the idea that it was a false labor and I wanted to go grocery shopping but Derek made me go to the hospital just to be safe and it's a good thing he did. The doctors checked me and I was most definetley in labor and about 2/3 of the way through it to boot. We got me all set up with wires and Ivs and before we knew what was going on it was time have a baby.

We were all so excited to see her and to see what she looked like but none of us expected her to be the color she was. Purple! And I mean purple. The cord was wrapped around her throat twice, and it turned her into a plum. Bells started going off and all these people ran into the room to take care of her. It was the scarriest thing I have ever had to experience. Thankfully the wonderful staff of the hospital was well prepared and they took care off our little girl and within 5 minutes she was back in our arms.
Jude has been pretty indiffrent towards his new sister. He will come and look at her, maybe even touch her hand but overall he thinks she is pretty boring. He doesn't seem to mind when one of us hold him, so he isn't getting jealous. I'm sure it is because of stress and worry but he has reverted a bit and is doing things he knows he shouldn't. But he isn't taking out any anger on Alice so we will just love him and reassure him everything is Ok and we will find our stride again.

Here is a cute video of our baby girl in action at about 4 days old. We are trying to wake her up so she will eat but she is just so sleepy.

So Derek, Jude and I had a grand time the other night out at Red Robin. We invited Jan and had such a good time eating, talking, and playing. After that Jan was nice enough to watch Jude while Derek and I caught up on some errands. We went and picked Jude up and were on our way home when we hear a styrofoam squeaking noise. We look back and Jude has some how gotten a hold of our leftovers and was just chowing down. We have no idea how he got it cause it wasn't even anywhere close to him. Jude just has super powers i guess, especially when it comes to food.

It was a wonderful conference morning and it is a tradition in The Oliver family to have yummy home made cinnamon rolls. There is a lot of hands-on when it comes to cinnamon rolls and the kids couldn't resist "helping." Jude came in towards the end to assist with the cutting(don't worry, it's only a butter knife) He got one little chunk off and began to eat it and that was the extent of his help. They ended up looking really good but Derek and I passed as the messy "helping" of our assistant chefs hands made us a little nervous. But the fact that they had a good time was well worth it. Kids need to be kids and get messy!

Here is me pestering Duckets while he naps. hehe, such a good dog!

Jude's new favorite song is Baba black sheep. He requests it over and over and over. I end up singing it till I am just sick of it and he still wants more. Well I decided it would be more fun if I knew the signs for it and I started looking up words in the sign language dictionary. I was looking up "black" and I saw the word "brat" I made the sign and began teasing Jude and he thought it was so funny. He laughed and laughed and laughed. He was laughing a good 2 or 3 minutes before I got the camera. What a silly guy.