NikkiZ had a photo session today and we finally got to put her in REAL clothes. I, on the other hand, have still not gotten out of my hospital gown. I am blaming that on the staples in my abdomen…actually? I’m blaming EVERYTHING on the staples right now because they get me a LOT of attention. Score.

MrZ and I are eating lunch together before he goes to get LilZ and take him to his soccer game tonight. I hate that I’m missing a tournament game, but at least MrZ is going. And he is going to take gobs of pictures to show the soccer moms of our beautiful daughter. And all of her BLING.

Anyway - I just wanted to take a second to post more pics. My mobility has dropped a bit today as I’m feeling my wound more…so I’m kinda taking it easy.

Damn staples.

This is the Hello Kitty doll that my brother-in-law’s girlfriend brought NikkiZ. How cool is it? I love it and may steal it when no one is looking.

Look at those scratches on her face! She has her pictures today so I filed down her nails this morning hoping that maybe she won’t add any more before her picture gets taken.

I took a shower last night…aren’t you impressed? I no longer stink! MrZ isn’t going to divorce me because of my body odor! They aren’t going to start doing science experiments on cultures from the film on my body!

I also had to take my own bandage off my stapled incision. Well, I didn’t HAVE to, but they told me I could, or they could do it for me, and like the nine-year-old I am, I was all “DONT TOUCH IT!” So, I did it myself. It freaked my shit OUT. I had to look at the incision in the mirror because my belly is blocking the way. I started crying because I realized “Holy Shit. They cut a baby out of me yesterday.” I’m a little slow sometimes.

NikkiZ is getting checked by her doctor right now and then I think she and I may walk around the floor we’re on. Woo Hoo. The excitement never ends.

Damn. Hospitals suck. We’re getting really severe cases of cabin fever being here. MrZ got to escape for a wee bit today, but not enough to actually take that hospital funk away. We’re icky. We’re also a wee bit moody. Crying over our daughter, our beautiful new daughter. Crying over her hands, her feet, her healthy little body that could have not survived delivery if it weren’t for a perfect set of circumstances. I think the reality of how close we came to losing her is starting to hit us now that the chaos of her arrival has passed.

I’m more mobile today and less drunk. The morphine I was on all day yesterday made the day VERY fuzzy and I’ve had to get MrZ to piece bits of it together for me. Especially the parts where I seem to remember falling asleep WHILE talking to someone. Which, I evidently did a LOT. Mid sentence? I’d fall asleep.

LilZ was up here tonight loving all over NikkiZ. It is so cool to watch. He doesn’t even hesitate before wanting to hold her, which is great because I was worried he’d be scared of her being SO small. MrZ’s family has been taking good care of LilZ this week, we’re lucky to have them here in town to help us.

It looks like we’re going to be here until Saturday, and then they’ll discharge us to the real world. Where we go back home and try to introduce the dogs to their new sister. And try to keep them all from licking her to death!

I’m hoping if I just keep coming back to post photos, I can get by with very little actual THOUGHT in these entries. Does it work that way?

MrZ just got back from running errands and taking a break from being at the hospital. He says he feels SO much better…he was pretty zapped before. I have been having to constantly get him to do everything for me and it’s been rough on him. He’s handled it beautifully, of course. I’m a lot more useful today than yesterday when I was tied to a catheter (BLAH), IV, and Morphine (YUM). But, I’ve still had major surgery so I can’t do everything for myself. So, he has been quite a busy bee and is now re-energized with good coffee from starbucks.

Oh - and I read my last entry? I think I may have triple dosed the morphine before writing that one. You’ll be happy to know they cut me off from morphine drips and am now to regular pain medicine. This means my entertainment factor has decreased by 20 times.

I’m off to finish my turkey sandwich that has taken me TWO HOURS to eat because my stomach feels full constantly.

Well…sorry the site was down! EEK! But, here’s an adorable picture to make up for it!

I’m hoping to write more later, but I totally wanted to post an entry about how much I love you guys that I spent a chunck of my morning trying to straighten out my bandwidth issues so i cold get my site back up and running.

We’re doing okay. Still at the hopsital, of course. We’re all VERY tired in ways I never knew possible. I didn’t sleep at all the first night because I was in labor and having contractions (and posting on this site) so last night was my night to catch up on my sleep. Unlucky for me, I guess, that I spent last night with severe problems with peeing. (Long Story) so today? MrZ and I just keep dozing off mid-sentences.

So, I may try to nap, I just wanted to pop my head in to say we’re back!