Zoie two months old!

So much has been going on it's really difficult to post new blogs as often as I would like to! So ill make this short and sweet, Zoie is doing great! She is awake the majority of the day, usually she will take a nap for maybe three hours. So that is my window of opportunity to clean,cook,study and shower! I have learned to work at super speed! She is so alert I still can't believe how much she's changed in the last two weeks. She and I lay on our bed and she watches the fan and smiles and recently she has been on a big "lets shove our hands in mommy mouth" phase, she just loves it! I love playing with her. She is eating well and growing as she should be. I started working part time at a local restaurant on the weekends and her Dad will watch her. Last week though her Grandma Harsh and Auntie Laura watched her while we were at work. I was so nervous, it was the longest I had been away from her since she was born. I couldn't wait to get back home to her! My classes started too, I have one morning class, one night class and two online. Things have been crazy for mommy! Here are a few new pictures so you can all see how our little munchkin is growing!!

2 Month Well check

Little ms. Zoie had her two month check up today and did great! She weighs 9.15 lbs, 23.5 inches long and the circumference of her head is 39 cm. She is in the 86% for her height, 33% for weight and 63% for her head. The docter said she is very strong and advanced in her physical development since she can roll over and lift herself as well as she does. Everything else is right on track for her. She got her baby shots which were not fun at all! Kris helped hold her while I sat in the corner and cried, haha. It is the worst feeling ever to hear your child in pain, and know there isnt anything you can do to fix it. We rushed her home and she's been sleeping all day, with the exception of like 30 minutes to eat. I am hoping she wont want to stay up all night and party! I am going to take Zoie next week and have her two month professional photos taken, I have been meaning to do it since she was born but something or another kept getting in the way! I am excited to finally gets some of her photos on the wall and send some to family members who havent seen how much she's grown! She is meeting with her specialist next week, along with her monthly blood work and ultrasound, originally we had scheduled to do it all today but I didnt want her to go through all that stress in one day. Kris will be there for the tests as well because it is really difficult for me to see my child poked with needles and since she can sense my apprehension, it's better to have his calm nature around us. So thats about it for now! I am wanting to have a little dinner on her two month birthday so I will post pics after we have it!

Seven weeks old... What a BIG girl she is!

Zoie is doing great! The first few weeks were a little rough on me, but seven weeks in I still can't believe she is here! Zoie has rolled from her back to her tummy three times and can hold her neck up without support, yay for her! She unfortunately has many doctor appointments because of her little tummy problem. For those who don't know Zoie has a hemange-something or another, I.E. a tumor, on her liver. When she was a day old she was transferred to UMC NICU where she had a CT and blood work done. Her specialist ruled that it was a tumor that developed while she was in my belly and it shouldn't turn into anything harmful and might just go away as she grows. However to be on the safe side she will have monthly ultrasounds and blood work, and weekly tummy checks, along with seeing her specialist once a month and her pediatrician weekly, poor baby. This is all to monitor the growth and make sure everything is A-okay. All these appointments along with the pediatrician appointments that every baby has to have is making mommy a little frazzled at keeping everything straight. She is a GREAT baby, hardly fussy, and a joy to be around. She has so many facial expressions that I can just watch her for hours! We went to San Diego to visit Grandad Steve and her Aunt Laura and we had a blast! The weather was great and although we didn't get to visit the ocean, for one reason or another, we had a great time. Zoie did really well in the car with hardly any fussing. Also her Great Aunt and Great Grandma from Kansas visited us and it was great to see the four generations of Harsh women. Now that Daddy is back to work Zoie and I have come up with a little routine and things couldn't be better. I still can't believe my little baby is almost two months it still blows my mind every time I see her to know she was inside my belly two months ago! Kris is an amazing dad and I think we make a really great team and that could be the reason why I think it's been easier than anticipated. School starts in a few weeks for me so that should be interesting to see how our little routine goes once mommy has a bunch of school work and can't play peek-a-boo all day! Our little one is measuring at 23 in long and 9 lbs 6 ounces as of last week. Our next dr appointment is Thursday so we'll see our little piggly wiggly is growing. I'll post some more pictures and let everyone know how big she is getting!

The best day of my life, the day Zoie was born.

This was me waving, I dont remember it!
Zoie Lynn Price 6/17/09 7 lbs 13 oz. 20 in.
Zoie's first photo with her proud Papa







Well, a few of my friends have blogs so I decided to to jump on the "blog" bandwagon. This way friends and family will always have an update with how our little one is doing. So I will back track and post a few blogs to get everyone up to speed.
So backtracking to June 10 at 10 am. It was my weekly baby check and Kris and Tiffany were keeping me company. I had not seen my ob/gyn in two weeks because the prior week an emergency had come up and I saw the nurse practitioner. I was so excited to see how dilated and effaced I was because I had been having some strong "contractions"(insert laugh). The Monday before we had an ultrasound done of our little one and a small mass was found on her liver and it was up in the air as to what it was. So when Dr.Westerband came in she immediately said, "I want to induce you at 39 weeks." Which I thought sounded okay because that gave me like two or three more weeks right?!, um wrong! It was next week, so my heart began to race big time! She said because baby girl was weighing in at almost 9 lbs and just getting too big and the mass on her liver needed to be examined so it was just the best idea. So she than proceeded to check me in which she said, I want to schedule a c-section! WOW, my head was spinning. She said my cervix is located really high and I wasn't dilated or effaced AT ALL, hence the laughing at how I thought I had contractions, and she said I would be put on pitocin and it would take 48 hours to get my labor going. No thank you! So she scheduled the c-section for the following Wednesday and it was Friday, so by this point I was in tears and just couldn't believe that in 10 minutes the hugest decision of my life was made. Thankfully Tiffany was there because she immediately hugged me and told me it was the right decision and Kris who is super level headed agreed that it was best for me and baby girl. So fast forward to Wednesday my Dad flew in from San Diego at 8 am and Kris and I got him at the airport, we headed back to the apartment to wait for my sister and mom to drive to Tucson. The orders were that my sergury would start at 4 pm and to be there at 2 pm to get prepped, scary! My mom and sister got there and the family decided to get a bite to eat which I longingly watched and wanted because I couldn't have anything to eat or drink obviously. We got to the Woman's Center and I went to the admitting desk where they gave me my bracelet and I signed my life away. After that things flew by! Kris and I went to triage where I was put into a gown, had my IV administered, which was probably the most painful part of the day. I just kept telling myself, this is it! I have been dreaming about this for 9 months and this is seriously it! Kris was given a moon man suit to put on and I met with the dr and after that walked back into the OR. Kris was escorted to another room while my spinal and catheter was administered. I began to cry as I walked into the room because it was so cold and EVERYTHING was white. I sat on the table and earlier I had told the dr I was especially scared about getting the spinal so he gave me some medicine to calm me down, and boy it was like a twelve pack had been injected into me. I felt so drunk! I just started chatting to everyone, I feel bad now because I was really annoying! After it was administered I laid down and Kris was brought back in. Just as I was going to ask if the procedure had started the dr leaned over and looked at me and said, "your daughter is going to be born in just a few moments". I looked over at Kris but he was too busy watching me being cut open and my organs being moved around, he thought this part was just too cool, to understand what the dr said to me. Just as the dr had said a few moments later I felt a huge amount of pressure on my chest than a huge relief in pressure and I actually said, "that feels sooo much better", what I didn't realize was Zoie was just born and it was the weight of her that had been lifted off of me! Than I heard her perfect cry and I myself started to bawl. They gave me some more medicine because after this it becomes really unclear but Kris left to the nursery with her before this they brought her to me where I gave her a tiny little kiss on her perfect cheek. After that they said I would feel pressure from them placing my uterus back into my belly and I responded incoherently, "I didn't know it was out". My family and friends were amazing supporters because I was told that there was around 20 people there to meet our daughter! The rest of the night is a blur because they started giving me high doses of morphine. But from what I remember it was amazing!