Windham Family Update

Today was probably one of the worst mornings that I have had in a long while! I stubbed my toe last night and woke up to it hurting and all black and blue so that means that I probably broke it. I checked my bank account to see if my reimbursement check had come in through my school only to find that my house note came out of my account really early so I ended up being -58 dollars. So then I had to borrow money from my mother-in-law. Christopher had the day off from work today so I ended up leaving Lilly with him while I went all the way across town to my mother-in-law's house to get a blank check to fill it out. I got the check and went to the bank's drive through service to deposit the check into our bank account. When I sent the check through to the teller, she said that the signature looked funny and that she had to verify it with my mother in law while she was at work. That took FOREVER!!!! That will be the last time I try to forge my mother-in-laws signature. What's stupid about it is that I had done it before and the same exact lady didn't have a problem with it! When everything was done, I gave Christopher a call only to find out that Lilly had been crying pretty much since I left. This made me really anxious to get home. From the bank to my house it usually takes about 5 or 6 minutes. Today it took me about 15 because I was stuck behind a person going 10 miles under the speed limit the WHOLE way. Needless to say I got a little bit of road rage! I didn't to anything to act on it, but I was about a tick away from flippin' the bird. I'm glad that I didn't though. I got to in front of my house only to discover that there was nothing in the mail box and then parked in the garage and ran into my house. I got to my bedroom and there was Christopher and Lilly. Lilly was asleep and Christopher was on the computer. All was well.
THEN,, Christopher got up to take a bath/shower (his morning ritual) and he got mad at me because I couldn't tell him exactly where his pillowcase was for his bath pillow that I had washed because it was so nasty, it smelled like mildew. I was already upset about the whole bank issue and the car in front of me that I broke down in tears and held Lilly for about 10 minutes. Sometimes a girl just has to cry it all out to feel better.
On a different note,
my daughter Lilly is quite the pretty lady. Whenever I take her out I get at LEAST three compliments on how beautiful she is. Mostly she is a good baby. The only time she really cries is when she's trying to poop and when she is over tired. Although I think she has been going through another growth-spurt because she has been more fussy at night time which is when most children grow. She laughed in her sleep so loud today that I heard it across the room. I wish I had been standing over her bassinet with a camera on when it happened because by the time I got over to it, there was only a faint smile on her face. Speaking of her bassinet, it is almost too small for her. She is getting so long (maybe 23 inches now?) I wont measure her till she's two months old on the 6th of October though.
School has been going better than I anticipated it would so far. I'm taking all online classes at Panola Junior College and have four classes; Lifespan and development, First Aid, Psychology 101, and Nutrition and Diet. I have two A's and two B's so far. Mid-mester is on the 12th of October so I'm almost half-way done. Go me!!!! Reimbursement checks come in on the 30th this month, so I'm really excited for that! Christopher will get out of debt. (With the exception of student loans.)
My house has been undergoing some home improvement projects. The dining room had awful wallpaper so when my parents were over after Lilly was born we started to take it off so that we could paint. That was not such a good idea because it turned into such a big. huge project! We ended up having to re-drywall the whole dining room where the wallpaper had been because the people who put it on didn't to it correctly. They stuck their wallpaper right up against the drywall so when we were taking it off we ended up taking off some of the drywall too. Christopher just got done re-taping the floating tape and screwing in the rest of the screws to secure the drywall in place. Next he will re-Spackle the wall and then we will paint it, but not before we get the paint lightened by adding more white to it. We also decided to re-do the bathroom wall paper because it was ugly sea/ocean wall paper that I wasn't feeling. I will re-decorate it with my zebra-bathroom theme.
Christopher is not working for Citi Trends anymore either. The more and more he thought about it, and the more things that came up, he discovered that the only reason why he left Gordon's was because of the pay-raise. Needless to say that when the regional manager of the Zale's corporation called Christopher to be the manager of the Gordon's in Nacogdoches (the store where he previously worked at as a sales rep) he hopped on it because not only was it a pay raise from what Citi Trends was just at the base pay, he loves selling jewelry rather than catering to rude, mostly African American, lower economy people.) Not dissing the people who shopped there they were just rude! So now Christopher is back at Gordon's Jewelers and LOVES it. We already are getting his nice bonus pay which will help with our ever on-going home improvement projects and growing family.
Well, I think I've thought of everything that needs updating!
Write more later. :-)

Lilly's Birth Story

August 5, 2011 I was sitting in my father-in-laws truck and started to get some very hard contractions so I decided to go in to see my doctor. My doctor, Dr. Keorner (my doctor for only a day) checked my cervix and told me that I was already FOUR centimeters dilated and told me to go to the hospital. So I got addmitted to the hospital at 2:13pm. I then called Christopher and told him to come home because my doctor sent me to the hospital to have the baby. At the time, my contractions were about five minutes apart and they weren't really painful. I sat on the bed and watched TV while my parent-in-laws sat on the couch. We just talked about the baby who was being monitored and could hear her heart beat and kicks every time she would move because it would echo in the room. Christopher got to the hospital from work at around 5:00pm. From there it was just a waiting game. Christopher's mom and him stayed with me the entire time. At around 7:pm I started to get rally hungry because I hadn't eaten anything since around 11:ooam that day so I asked the nurse if I could eat something and she said that I was on a strict fluid-diet until I had the baby. So I finally got some jello at around 7:30pm while everyone else ate some nice fast-food. My doctor came in at around 8:30pm and checked my cervix again and to no avail it hadn't changed so he went home for the night. In the meantime, Christopher had fallen asleep and his mom and I stayed up chatting through my contractions. Throughout the night I had only gotten two really, REALLY painful contractions that lasted about two and a half to three minutes each that left me dizzy and weak. I then asked if I could take a bath at around 3 in the morning to relieve pressure. Once I got in the bath, I guess I slept for about an hour and a half because I woke up to a painful contraction. I got out and laid back on the bed. My mother-in-law was asleep now (and Christopher was still asleep. He didn't wake up ONCE throughout the night to help alleviate the pain of my contractions. I guess he figured that if he slept, the baby would come faster. HAHA! RIGHT.) After turning the TV back on for another hour I must have fallen asleep for the next two hours because when I got up, it was almost 6:00am. I had some more jello for breakfast, along with some chicken broth and some water and cranberry juice. My doctor came back in at 8:00am and checked my cervix again. It had gotten to a five!!! WOOT! so all the night gave me was one centimeter. Why was my body so eager to get to four centimeters and then stop?? It was so annoying because it was getting painful. My doctor decided to start me on some petocin (which is a drug that speeds up labor) through the IV. I could taste it when it started going. It was actually kinda painful in my arm. It was like a growing pain sensation but I lived through it because it only lasted about 30 minutes each time the dose was put in. Then, at around 9:00am, my contractions started to get worse so I asked for some pain medicine through my IV. They gave me some welbutrin.. I think that's what it was called. Anyway it helped relieve the pain for a while. (I could also taste this drug which was not a lovely flavor either.) Christopher then got up because he knew that It was all down-hill from then on. The doctor also broke my water which helped speed up the process faster. This went on till about 10:30am when the contractions started to get unbearable. The only thing that I remember next was that I told the nurse the I wanted an epidural and the anesthesiologist came in. At that point I was moaning and groaning so bad that Christopher's dad had to leave the room because he knew that it was getting close. For the epidural, I needed to sit up. It was pretty painful for me to sit up and I needed all the help that I could get to do so. After I got up I felt so weak. My wonderful husband got up and helped hold my into the correct position for the really big, thick needle to go into my spinal cord to numb my body. It took about five minutes from start to finish to get everything prepped, needle to go in and for the medicine to start taking effect. Let me tell you, an epidural it AMAZING!!! I'm not kidding. It's like... one of the best things that you could possibly get when you are in labor. (Christiana if you read this... DEFINITELY get one when you are in labor!!!!) Right after I finished getting my epidural I was told to lie on my back so that the medicine could take quicker effect. I was really doozie but the next thing that I knew the nurse was telling me to turn over onto my stomach and get on my hands and knees and put my butt up in the air because the baby's heart beat dropped to the point that it couldn't be read by the fetal-monitor. They had me roll from side to side to try to get my baby to move and raise her heartbeat. This only lasted for about a minute because the monitor finally picked up Lilly's heartbeat again. She ended up just kicking it off so that's why they couldn't get a reading from her. While my butt was up in the air though, the doctor came in and the honest to gosh only thing that I remember him saying was, "I can't check her cervix when her butt is up in the air like that." I think my face would have turned bright red if it could have, but because of the wonderful drugs I was quite out of it at that point. I laid back down and the doc checked my cervix and announced that I was completely dilated (to a ten) and that she was 100% effaced. This meant that it was time for pushing!!!!
My butt was scooted to the very edge of the bed and my legs were held up on my left side by Christopher and by my right side, by my mother in law. I was told to push with each contraction for starters. I knew she was coming because I could feel a lot of pressure. It felt a lot better when I was allowed to push with each contraction because a contraction is the body's natural way of pushing the baby out. I wish my mother in law would have taken a picture of me pushing, but I probably would have gotten mad. Before I went into labor, I had prepared Christopher to hold my hand and love on me by rubbing my head or pushing the hair off my face or rubbing my arm. It was a totally different experience when I was in labor!! I did NOT want to be touched at all! I don't know why, but I just didn't want to be touched other than the help of each person on my legs. As I was pushing all I could think about was how much I wanted this big, giant poop to come out of my vagina! When Lilly was finally crowning my doctor said that I was going to tear and that I needed an episiotomy (spelling.. I know it's wrong). The next thing I knew he clipped me from the bottom of my vagina down through my butt-hole!! It hurt so bad that Christopher said that I have never screamed any louder. After a few more very hard pushes, Lilly's head popped out! I pushed one more time and I felt the pull of her body being twisted out of my body and the big RELIEF that I had finally gotten what felt like the biggest poop out of me that I could have ever imagined! They put her on my stomach and I immediately started to cry tears of joy. She was only on me for a second because she was four weeks early so they had to make sure everything was ok. As far as I could see, she was perfect!!! Ten toes and Ten fingers. All her limbs were there and she had a FULL head of red curly hair! I kissed Christopher and thanked my mother in law for helping me out. After the doctor stitched up my episiotomy and the room was cleaned up and clear, I passed out for about a half an hour which was probably the best nap that I had ever gotten. After about two hours, the nurse brought in Lillian and I saw my daughter for real and up close for the first time and I fell in love. :-) She was born August 6, 2011. She weighed 6 lbs, 7 oz and was 17 1/2 inches long!!!