OH NO!! Did it happen again?

No, this is just a double chocolate Trader Joes oreo cookie. But it definitely gave me a crazy flashback.

There was POO everywhere!! Even on her mouth. It was so disgusting. I have almost no words. Her diaper was perfectly clean because she took it off and then went poo and then wiped it EVERYWHERE!!!! I hope this never happens to you.

It is our baby girl’s first birthday today. We love her and adore her. She is the sweetest little girl and I can’t believe that a year ago we were in the hospital waiting until 6:45pm when she was born. Good job on that part Bea!!

Then we had lunch with some friends and family and asked them to write down traits of a Godly woman on a rock. Then we put all the rocks in a vase that we will have Ella keep forever and she can read the rocks to teach and remind her of what it means to be a Godly woman. Bea had a great post about it on her blog. Check it out here.

The service in church today was incredible. I will post more on that later. I was proud of our church today.

Last night was Grace’s last soccer game as part of The Pink Ladybugs. We had a pizza party at LampPost Pizza afterwards. It was pretty fun. The parents of the team bought me two $25 gift cards to iTunes and Borders. Books and Music – I love them both!! We are not going to do soccer in the Fall. Grace likes going to soccer, dressing up for soccer, playing with the girls, snack, and the tunnel after the game, but I don’t think she actually likes playing soccer. So we will have her do it next summer after she is a bit older. She already does swimming and ballet so we have enough activities.

I went to Beach Boogie with our Jr Highers yesterday after speaking at Jr High on Wednesday night and it was fun. I feel like I’m finally starting to get to know some of these kids a little bit. I got sunburned on the sides of my back yesterday at the beach. It hurts pretty bad.

Alright, you probably stopped reading a couple paragraphs ago.

TV Notes:
The Next Food Network Star – I want Amy to win. The other two are annoying and Jag is a cheater so they eliminated him. I like Amy’s point of view – a good mixture of culinary expertise, French style, and housewife.
Hell’s Kitchen – this show is getting annoying. The people can’t even cook. Where do they choose these people from? They suck. They overcook and undercook constantly. One potential executive “chef” didn’t know what ahi was. Give me a freaking break???
Top Chef – this is the coolest cooking reality show on TV and I just discovered it. They are all actually real chefs who know what they are doing. It’s a pleasure to watch instead of being painful.

Yes, I am a little too into cooking reality shows.

I have to speak tonight in Jr High and I’m going to be exhausted by 8:00pm after being at work for 10 hours by that point. I also went to sleep last night at around 10:30pm so that’s about 3.5 hours of sleep. AAAGGGHHHH!!!!

We left the house at around 6:15am to go to South Coast Medical Center in Laguna Beach where Bea was going to be induced. First of all, it’s weird having an induction because you know that you are going to go and have a baby. It’s a crazy sense of anticipation – very nerve wracking. Here is a picture of Bea’s belly on the morning we left the house. Yes, there is a seven pound baby, two liters of extra water and a few pound placenta inside that belly. I have a picture of the placenta but Bea won’t let me show it.

Then we checked in at the hospital and filled out paperwork and got checked into our room and they started the Petocin drip (that’s the drug that starts inducing labor) at about 8:15am. My parents took Grace to breakfast at Ruby’s. Then Bea’s mom came and hung out with us. We were in a smaller room to start but then they checked us into our main room at around 11:00am. This room was beautiful and big and had an amazing ocean view. That’s kind of their schtick at South Coast – “Have your baby with an ocean view!” They even give shirts to the baby that say that. Here is a picture of the view.

The rooms are LDRP rooms which means you do everything in them. L – Labor. D – Delivery. R – Recovery. P – Postpartum. Here is a picture of Bea waiting in the Labor phase. She got the epidural at around 1:00pm. It was pretty scary for her, but those things are amazing. She is such an amazing woman. So brave and so strong. At this point Bea was only at 3 centimeters and we thought we were in for a long road.

Then at 4:30pm the nurse examined Bea and she was at 5cm. Then I enjoyed a delicious Ruby’s Beach Burger with bacon and Bea was very jealous because she couldn’t eat. Then at about 6:25pm, Dr. Tran (our OB), came in to examine Bea. We thought this would just be another check and we would have to wait a few more hours. We sent the family out to let Bea get examined in private. So then Dr. Tran says that she is at 7cm, but that her cervix is very flexible and soft. The next words out of Dr. Tran’s mouth are, “Let’s try giving a push on the next contraction.” WHAT???? SERIOUSLY??? Then Baby Ella was born at 6:48pm so you know that this process was very very very fast. Here’s the first picture I took of Ella all covered in the gross white stuff.

Here is our new family with Dr. Tran.

Then Bea has to get stitched up and cleaned up before we can let the family come in. They were shocked when I said that they baby was born. They thought it was just another routine examination as well. Crazy. Then we spent the crazy two nights in the hospital with some great friends and family bringing tasty meals to us from Ruby’s, Coyote Grill, and a yummy New York pizza place. We were so happy to come home. With Grace we were scared to come home. This time I couldn’t wait.

Here is a darn cute baby at our home.