Los 2 Ricardos

Ricardo and Baby Head playing together!! :) There are 3 videos in all but this sums it up.It was hillarious and hte baby thought so too. As you can see he is smiling and laughing!! (KINDA :) )
check it out!!

HE IS HERE!

Ok..so it took me almost 3 weeks to get somethign on this blog posted. Too long you say...have a baby and see how much time you actually have to sit on the computer...or let alone do anything else. Honestly if it were not for one step email checking on my cell phone...I would not be checking that either. At least while I am riding (not driving) I can read them!
So here is the scoop.
Ricardo Jacobo Ovalle (aka, Dito, Baby Head, RJ, Little Ricki...) was born at 7:33am October 17, 2008. He wieghed 7.0 lbs and was 19.75lbs. I went into the hospital abou 1230am after what I thought was my water breaking. (of course also after I took a shower and started the dishes in the dishwasher..:))The nurse waited to officially admit me til I was more than 2 cm dialated. (and they said that my water had not actually broken.) The contractions started and yes they hurt. I had never felt them til this point..and man..I hated it. I wanted to just give up (even though I was WAY pat the point of no return...jaajaja) After I was about 3 cm they admited me and gave me some preliminary pain meds to curb the painful contractions. This was about 3am. When I hit 4cm (about 330am) they gave me the epideral I had requested. THOSE do not take long at all to kick in! After that I felt nothing..except my ACTUAL water breaking. The nurse confirmed it and called hte doctor to have her come in. The epideral worked so well that I was actually able to fall asleep for about an hour (as well as Doug, Jessica, Daisy, my mom and Ricardo all who were present at the time) for about an hour or so. Then the Dr came in and checked again 9cm. Wow that went by fast!! :) So we kicked everyone out and began he pushing process...after several tries and almost popping out every blood vessel in my head, a fever on my part and an elevated heart rate on the babys part (180...regular is 120-140), and using a vaccuum to straigten him out they decide at 630am to do an emergency C-Section. I was quite scared at the idea of that but knew that all was in God's hands and only He knew what was and was going to happen! So off I went to getr our little baby out! The surgery began at 704am and he was out at 733am. :) Ricardo was by my side the entire time taking pics and texting Jessica who was out in a waiting room with everyone so she could stay in contact with those who wished to have all the up to the moment news thru out the night. :) So all in all a grat pregnancy with no complications or problems. Canckles really only began to set in the last week. And only had to endure 2 hours of so of pain before the medicine took over. Pn the other hand the post surgery is a dusey! I am not in constant pain or anything but it will certainly kick me in the stomache anytime I spend too much time on my feet or do something I am not supposed to do. :( 6 weeks of basically not being able to do anythng...not even drive! :( I guess I can live with that being I had such a great 9 months and now a VERY HUNGRY little boy! (He eats almost every 2 hours!!!!)

I can say that I have learned a few things since he has come in to the world. SOme include:
1) Milk smells gross if left on your skin too long
2) Being able to clean the whole house in 20 mins or less
3) How to hold a baby who is nursing in one hand and use the other to get stuff done AND
4) To love in a way that only God can do.
It is amazing that you can love something that has done nothing to deserve it, or has asked for it. He just is my son and I love him for that. It is a little crazy to think about sometimes...that he is even here and real and that I can say that I have a son. But then at 3am he reminds me taht he IS real and he IS here!!! :) ANd I thank God all the time for putting him here with us. :)

Time home has been interesting. THe first week that we were home Ricardo took off and Jessica was here most every waking minute. It was nice to have her here to help with the cleaning and cooking as I could do none of it. Also was good to have RIcardo not needing to get up for work as the first few nights were hard for us to get thru. A few weeks have gone by and taking care of a baby is no picnic but I think that RIcardo is finally sleeping thru the babys cries...ja jaja. :) He is most helpful though when he does get home from work. He holds him and feeds him and sometimes changes his diapers...gives me a few more mins between feedings to do things. Even this blog I started at like 7am is only possible cause I am learning to do things one handed while the baby is feeding. Hence why it took so long!!! :) Well I need to take these last few moments to get a bottle ready for church and a chower afterwards...as mentioned above...MILK smells so gross if left to dry on teh skin and not washed...aka showered! :) (I currently have no pics as the laptop died and I cannot get them off. Want to see some check out Ricardo's or Jessica's myspace or facebook!

Baby Zaks Boutique Fiasco! How Babosa!!!!

Well...one woudl hardly believe it..but it is true. Jessica, Ricardo and I went to the Avenue Viera yesterday to walk around and kinda jus enjoy the day. I had heard that there was a nice baby store there so I wanted to stop in. It is called Baby Zaks Boutique. At first it was super cute and had a lot to look at. Then we found out that some of the crib sheets in there were like $700. WHAT?!?!? So we all just continued to look around. As we were getting ready to leave I went back to a crib that had a sheet set that I liked a lot and JEssica noticed a set of blue and brown burp clothes (I thought they were bandaids cuase they looked like they were made out of gauze). Those are nice, we both thought and put them back down, and walked out the door. Like 2 seconds later we hear..."Um..you guys have some blue burp clothes??"
"Excuse me?" (one of us said) I was at first a little confused by the question as we turned to see the lady calling to us as we have already left the store.
"I saw you guys looking at some blue burp clothes and wanted to know if you have them."
We all just looked at each other a little dumbfounded and said "No we do not have any cloths"
Just then the lady looks back in the window and there they are in her display. "Oh nevermind there they are..."
So basically in front of those outside her store, as well as those who were currently shopping in her store, this lady wrongly accused us of shoplifting, before she ever looked into the window display! What the hey!?!?! I was a litle surprised myself at the accusation! Never beed accused of stealing before....and let me tell you those burp cloths were not even WORTH stealing...like I mentioned before..THEY LOOKED LIKE THEY WERE MADE OUT OF GAUZE....the stuff I can find in a first aid kit!! So if for some reason you feel the need or desire to shop, window shop or even look around Baby Zaks Boutique...beware!! You too might be accused of stealing something that was left in plain sight!!!!!!!

Todays Appointment

I went to my appointment today as I do every 2 weeks. The Doctor came in to do the measuring and check the heart rate etc..and she looked at me and was like..."Well let us see if this is butt or what (sticking out of my belly) " and proceeded to look for the heart beat. She checked first onthe right side...of course with no luck as those are his feet and went on to check the left bottom side and found it! She was like...."Wow he is offly (however you spell that) WIGGLY this morning." I was like...awww..he is WIGGLY! Wiggly never sounded so cute before!!! I have a wiggly baby Kumquat!!!!!! :)

Crib Time

Yeah we ordered our crib this week...and by this time next week it should be here. Now to see if it will take as long to put it together!!! JEe jee jee! It is not the Octagon UFC Fighting Ring Crib Ricardo was hoping for, none the lese it is a nice Cherry Wood Crib!! I cannot wait! Getting the crib and having all the baby stuff is making this whole "we are having a baby" thing more real. (As if the huge Baby Bump on my Belly was not a HUGE indicator!) But to see the baby stuff is making it all materialize as we still cannot see our baby!!! :) YEAH!!! We are currently in week 33 of the pregnancy...so any day soon Ricardito Jacobito will be here....and sleeping in a super cool crib...HOPEFULLY on his lime green or froggie sheets....hint hint friends of mine!! :)

Cantankerous Old Lady

So I went to the Dr today with Jessica (her appt). And while we were sitting, both in a little pain respectively Jessica pulled up the table so we could lift our legs. (My Dr said I need to keep them elevated as much as possible). Well right before she went in, a couple of old ladies came in and I told Jessica..."there we are years from now." And then an old guy came in to sit with them. We deemed him Ricardo. We knew it was not Doug, casue we already saw him on his way to work. (we saw another old guy riding a segway on 192:)) It was our big laugh for the day. She got called into her appt and I sat outside in the waiting room to ...basically WAIT! :) Jee jee.
After she left a third old lady was sitting there and said to her seemingly deaf husband (I can think of no other reason to talk so loud to the person sitting right next to you in a Drs office) She said to him..."You know what I hate...people who put thier feet on furniture. It just proves that they are ignorant and not educated..and it is rude!..." This is a basic quote..there are other things that she said about it but those were the key words. Of course I wanted to run over there and be like "Look lady I am almost 8 months pregnant and I need to keep my feet up!! What is your excuse for being "rude and ignorant"?!?!?" But I did not, I kept my cool and kept working on my laptop...working on my laptop...such a thing for an undereducated individual. :S Ay ay ay. I can say though I never heard someone talk so loud about someone else right in front of them before. I was like whatever and kinda laughing on the inside too!! Jee jee!!!!

ALL IS A-OK!

So we waited and waited and waited...all in the end for NADA!!! And Nada is what we got to. 6 Hours of basically layign around..no food no water..nothing! Kinda sucked all for htem to tell me...that they do not know what happened and all looked ok and fine and I coudl finally go home!! At least we got to see our baby RIcardito again! He is lookign more and more like his daddy. NO not cuase he shows up black on the screen....>:S...but his lips and nose are "appearing" to look more and more like his Daddy :) Jee jee. Check them out and determine for yourself :)