LYDIA KATE LOWARY!! 
This is the onesie that Blayne tie-died for her- I think it's super cute, and who cares if it makes her look like a boy- hahaha! Can ya tell Blayne's a duck fan?
There we go, some pink socks to show she's a girl!
I'm lookin pretty hot- hahaha, yeah right! 
Ava LOVES giving her kisses! She also says "Hey little guy" whenever we're holding her- it doesn't matter how many times we try to tell her she's a girl, she just says "no, it's a boy".
This is what it was like both times Ava came to the hospital, she just climbed all over me the whole time, I'll bet you can imagine how comfortable that was. It's ok though, that was the longest I had ever been away from her and I missed her like crazy!!! I almost cried the last day we were at the hospital waiting to be discharged because I missed her so much.
Ok, so here's the story. I was scheduled to be induced Friday morning (not because there was anything wrong, I just wanted to be). Blayne's parents got here Wednesday afternoon- thank goodness! That evening I started having regular contractions, they weren't horrible, but they were consistantly coming every 2 minutes, so I went to the hospital at about 7:30. Blayne left work and met us there. Well, on the way the contractions pretty much stopped, but we were already on the way so we went ahead and went. Needless to say, they sent me home at about 10:30, I was only dilated to about a 3 and after walking around the hospital for 45 minutes there was no change. I was SO embarassed I told Blayne that I was NOT going back until my induction. Well, I woke up at about 1:45 in the morning having REALLY bad contractions. I was trying SO hard to be silent since I wasn't sure it was the real thing and I didn't want to wake up Blayne since he had to work in the morning. After about 2 hours Blayne was awake (I wasn't totally successful at being silent- but considering the pain, I was still pretty quiet), so we went ahead and went. We were both worried that they were just going to send me home again, but when they checked at about 4ish- I was at a 6. So they moved me to my room and gave me the drugs- YAY!!!!! Man, I was HAPPY to have those!!! Well, until they wore off at the end, a little before it was time to start pushing- awesome- oh wait, that SUCKED!!!! I could feel EVERYTHING!!! After a couple pushes she was out at 8:53 Thursday morning- 7lbs. 4oz- 20 in. long. She is such an amazing baby!!! She just wants to sleep all the time- except for like an hour and a half at night when she gets a little fussy because all we want is for her to sleep, and she's not really interested. I thought it would be a LOT harder than this, I know I'm only a couple days in, but she's just great!!! Ava's been really good too, she loves her SO much!
