Say Hello to My Little Friend

Oliver Tron Arnold
Born 12/18/2009 at 8:15 P.M.
9 lbs 9 oz
20.5 inches
Dark Brown Hair
Dark Blue Eyes
Tron thinks he gets all his features from me...which may or may not be true
He has sideburns which are definitely from Tron

So, I was a week and a day overdue. People kept saying that maybe the due date was off and what not. This my friends was not the case. He was just content to chill there. He was definitely overcooked. I mean come on 9.9! That's a big baby for someone who is not a big lady. They had us come in at 7:15 on the morning of the 18th. They broke my water at 8:30. I had a few little contractions, but nothing too bad. Then I got the epidural at around 10:30 or 11:00 which was AWESOME! I could move my legs and had control of them, but could feel nothing in the place that counted. Plus, getting it was not as bad as everyone makes it seem. I was horrified that they were going to stick a huge needle in my spine. When really they only use a tiny little bit of the needle. It's only long so they have a handle to control where it goes. Anyways, I was in active labor for about 4 hours, but didn't feel any of it. I mostly just slept and laughed. The nurse said I was her best patient and they could hear me from the hall and wondered what I was laughing about. (Yes, I'm very aware I have a loud laugh) After I was fully dilated they had me wait for an hour before starting to push. To give me energy, but it's not like I was doing much other than sleeping before hand. Then the pushing started and after a while the nurses changed and this nurse checks me and informs me that my bone structure is really small and that's why the pushing was taking so long. Here I was thinking oh man I must suck at this game. All in all I pushed for 2 and a half hours. He finally got there and we realized oh no I rock at this game most woman would have had to get a c- section. (which sometimes seems more appealing)

Anyhow, he's here now and we are so happy. He's so small and cute I can't help but want to squeeze him.

Feelin' Good with 2 Days Till Due Date

Tron has a final tomorrow and a paper due on Thursday, then he'll be done with the semester. Which will be great! I won't see him any more than I do now at least during the day, because he'll go straight to full time again. It will be nice to see him during the evenings without homework being done though. So, here's what we are hoping for...We have an appointment with the doctor on the due date at 3:45. We hope that we'll go in and she'll just say oh you're dilated enough let's just take him now. That way we'll have the weekend and Tron can just go back to work without missing a beat and all the finals will be done, Bonus! Things rarely work out just the way you want them to, but here's to hoping. But if he decides he's cool where he is we'll have to wait for a week after his due date before they'll start me. So, if worse comes to worse he'll be here on the 17th. ha ha please don't let him wait that long. Also, please don't let my water break at our apartment, I do not want to clean up that mess. Especially since the carpet condition is part of the deposit.

I haven't posted in a while...

Because I was waiting to put the maternity pictures I had taken. The CD is in the mail, but I'm just so excited about them I thought I'd put these up from her blog (don't worry I asked her permission). Anyhow, the photographer is Marilyn Cutler and she's awesome! I just love her. For those of you from my home ward in Layton you may know her as Jeremy's wife. Anyhow, I just love her style and I have a link to her photo blog on my other blog. Check her out! I think they are fun. They were taken around the beginning of November.

Here they are:































And my personal favorite














I think she did an amazing job. I normally don't like to look at pictures of my pregnant self, but when they look like these I can totally handle it!

As for baby news: A couple weeks ago the doctor thought he'd be coming sometime this weekend, but when she checked me yesterday she thinks he's going to stay a bit longer. I'm holding strong at 90% effaced(or however you spell that) and 1 centimeter dilated. He's dropped he was at a -2, but she said he's dropped farther than that I'm not sure if he's at a -1 yet or not. So, I guess we'll just have to wait and see what happens. I'm not too uncomfortable so it's cool. The only thing that bothers me a little are my hips, they do not like to spread or they do and are loving the pain they are causing. ha ha ha