pics of daniel with captions from chris...

since the baby was born chris has been sending out emails to his family with pics of the baby... and along with the pictures he adds captions... they are too funny and he is quite proud of them so i figured i should put them on here as well..

feb 5th: first shots of daniel:

first picture at home...

Feb 6th:

"a lot of this going on today"

"in the nursery 15 min after being born"

"chris changing the first diaper"

"mom and kid"

"mom loving kid"

"mom and dad ready to go home"

"and now.. the best shot ever... his first booger!!!"

feb 9th:

"if daniel had facebook... this is what he would post..."

"peeking out at Daddy from Mommy's lap"

"closer view"

"grandma karen giving him his first bath.. sort of... with a wash cloth"

"his pouty face! it's pretty darn cute so we don't ever take it too seriuosly..."

"and an accidental gas smile!! enjoy"

feb 10th: more daniel

well daniel had the hiccups again as i write this.  its about the 10th time today.  pretty funny.

"trying to wake up to nurse... which is going really well by the way!"

"big yawn!"

"not another diaper change! what a cruel world!"

"daddy kind of learned how to swaddle..."

"and the pouty face of the day!!"

feb 11: are you sick of him yet?

here are today's pictures.  mom and baby are currently sleeping and all is calm and well over here.

"look at his skinny legs!"

"pouty face of the day"

"with grandma slade"

"calm, alert, and awake!"

"and sleeping on mommy"

feb 12th: got some good ones!

"where's the gym?"

"our little ape man"

"tummy time!"

"i love you this much!"

"what?! daddy is a dentist??"

feb 15th: daniel's back!!

marilyn sent this picture to me during a tough day at school with the following phrase..

"sup dad... we chillin"

(it made my day to say the least!)

"for any of you who are fans of the show "Psych" like we are.  our baby is having a vision..."

"play dead!"

"just hanging with mom"

"hello world!"

feb 18th: daniel fix

"in a food coma and getting burped.. or getting a haircut??"

"my little man standing tall!"

"babies are so flexible!"

"that's where babies come from?!"

so it went like this: marilyn has deep, small, hard to find veins that gave all the doctors fits.  check out this gem of medieval torture:

"the last shot of marilyn as the doors close on her pregnancy"

"chris, not so patiently waiting, while the anesthesiologist tries 7 times to do a spinal block on poor marilyn! (and last pre-daniel picture)"

"the weigh-in for the light weight division"

feb 25th: daniel had visitors!

"bring on the visitors!"

"my family! cousins!"

"please, please, no paparazzi photos"

with "uncle daddy" and stevie

best attempt at getting a picture with grandma and three uncooperative kids:

all tuckered out after all the excitement!

thank you chris for those first emails letting everyone know what was going on... and for making the emails more fun and exciting with your witty captions :)  love it!

the day the wee babe was born...

Daniel Vern Spillers

6 pounds 14 ounces

20 inches long

yes its true... our baby is now here! he decided to come a little earlier than planned.  we were scheduled to go to the hospital monday feb 6th at 5:30 am for a c section since my doctor, after doing 2 other surgeries on me, decided i needed to have a c section if i ever wanted to have more than one kid since i am apparently freakishly tiny.  saturday feb 4th was your typical lazy saturday.  we cleaned the house a bit... i mopped and swept the floors and chris cleaned the bathroom and we generally tidied the whole apartment.  throughout the day i had been having more and more contractions but nothing regular and nothing too painful.  at 3 we went down to my moms for a minute to visit and while there i started having some fairly painful contractions.  i still didn't think anything of it since they weren't regularly coming.  by 4:30 they had started to come more regularly i think but i am no good at telling when one ends and the next begins.  i decided i had better go ahead and take a shower and get ready to go just in case.  by 6:00 chris was getting really excited thinking i was actually going into labor so he jumped in the shower and once he finished packing we headed off to the hospital.  i called my mom at 7:30 pm to let her know we were going to the hospital and i would call her to let her know if we were having a baby that night.

we get to the hospital and they have me change into the oh so cute hospital gown and hook me right up to the monitors.  sure enough i was having contractions every 3 min... glad to know i wasn't crazy.  the nurse thought they might just give me something to make them stop and have me come back monday when we were scheduled... but she was going to call me doctor and see what he wanted to do.  he of course was like "she's 39 weeks.. why would we send her home??" haha so she came in and said congrats we are going to have a baby in an hour! whoa.  i called my mom and she headed over... my sister emily also decided to come and wait to see the baby.

here is where the real fun began.  the nurse came in and was getting ready to put in my IV and i warned her that i have tiny deep veins that like to roll.  she couldn't even find a good vein and when she finally got one in my hand to pop up she missed it because it rolled away.  she decided not to stick me again and went and got the anesthesiologist.  he started flicking my wrist and hands and other places trying to find a vein... i came home with a nice bruise and lump on the side of my wrist from him trying to get a vein to come up there.  while he was working the phlebotomist came in needing to draw some blood for labs... wow really??? so there i was with one on each side... the anesthesiologist tried going in through my wrist which was really painful and i just cringed and the phlebotomist was going in through the side of my wrist at the same time... crazy! finally the IV was put in on the back of my right hand and heavily taped so it wouldn't get pulled out accidentally.

here's the anesthesiologist and phlebotomist working on me... and the last picture taken as the "doors close on my pregnancy" haha

after this we headed off the the OR.  we left chris behind on the hall while they got me situated.  they were doing a spinal block since they wear off faster than an epidural... he had me sit crossed legged on the table and hunch over... hahaha hilarious since i was huge and pregnant.  unfortunately my back is similar to my arms and he had a difficult time finding the place to go in.... he ended up sticking me at least 5 times... each one was really painful.  i didn't say anything i just breathed deeply and held onto the nurse that was supporting me.  the dr. felt so bad and was amazed he had never seen anything this difficult before.  he finally got it done after 40 min of trying. meanwhile we had left chris in the hallway to wait while they got me all situated and after a while he wondered where the heck we were and if they had forgotten him...

chris came in, my dr put on some music and off they went.  chris was excited my doctor let him stand up and watch the whole surgery.  which was nice for me too since he would tell me what was going on... i could tell when the moment was getting closer because chris started bouncing on his heels and then he whipped out the camera and started taking pics and pretty soon at 10:28pm we heard the most bizarre and exciting sound... the baby crying.  the doc brought him over real quick so i could see him and holy cow... the kid had tonz of black hair... yep... really dark dark brown hair!! that was the first thing i said when i saw him "look at all that hair!"  the next shocker was when they weighed him and said 6 pounds 14 oz...  20 inches..what?! really?? my whole pregnancy they had said the baby was measuring really big and would be at least 8 pounds... ha! not even close.  he's a string bean with long arms and long skinny frog legs.  i was a little choked up after that... there was now a baby... chris said he got a little choked up too while they were cleaning him up.  i got to see him one more time they brought him right up to my face for a couple min.

then chris left with the baby and i was left to be closed up... from then on i was listening to the hilarious conversation about pinewood derby cars.... haha yep it was real exciting.  eventually they took me back to the room where my mom and emily were waiting.  chris took them to see the baby through the nursery window and then they left.  by 2 am they finally took me from recovery to our room for the next couple days and then they brought in our baby.  i can't really say i ever went to sleep that night cause i just wanted to hold the baby and stare at him.  what an exciting night and soooo surreal.  you know a baby is coming for 9 whole months but then he's actually there and its mind blowing.  nothing can prepare you for the feelings that instantly come when he is actually in your arms.  and i must say he is one beautiful baby with the sweetest little face.

we are parents.  whoa.  very awesome and exciting.

accidents happen...

i have been meaning to write this blog and keep forgetting... back in december while chris was on break he came with me to one of my doctors appointments and then after we went to babies-r-us to register.  he was an awesome sport to look at all that baby stuff with me.  i think it helps that i have him doing all the scanning with the cool scanner gun haha and i'm fast.  we were only there maybe an hour and a half.  after we went to dinner at sweet tomatoes.  we were having a good time even though i wasn't feeling the greatest and was super tired... next thing you know BAM!!! chris spills his completely full glass of dr. pepper on himself.  he amazingly spilled it so it fell towards him right into his lap.  i could not stop laughing... he stood up to show me and from the front and the back it totally looked like he wet his pants.  hahaha how awesome is that?! we had to sit there for a while to let it dry a bit before he would leave or get up to get more food.  i think he did it on purpose to cheer me up... isn't he the best? haha

this pic was taken with my phone so it is a little hard to tell just how wet his pants really are.