Baby contests

Cindy won the contest for when Simon would be born.
Steve and his Grandma both guessed the right weight.

In other news, I think I am going to start a new blog on being a mom where I can complain or talk about things most people won't really want to hear about like breastfeeding, and leaking, that type of stuff.

More pictures of Simon

I made a photo album of pictures of Simon on facebook. You can see it HERE! I am posting a couple of them on this page for kicks, but if you want to see them all go to the facebook link, it's public so you can see it even if you don't have facebook.
THIS ONE is more of the labor, delivery, and recovery.

I am still alive!! and I had a baby!

To make a really long story short... Friday morning I woke up at 2:23 a.m. because I was feeling contractions. I tried to go back to sleep all morning but couldn't because I was just really uncomfortable because I was having labor pains and having really bad back labor and couldn't get comfortable . So I kind of relaxed and got stuff ready for the hopsital until my scheduled doctor's appointment at 9:15 that morning. At my appointment my doctor said I was dilated to a four and would be heading to the hospital, but she wouldn't be coming with me because she was about to leave to go out of town for the weekend. So we left, ran over to Jack-In-The-Box for our last meal as just a couple, and then went to the hospital. We got all checked in, went to a labor and delivery room, and stayed there for hours and hours and hours. Doctor Enrico came in about 11 a.m. and broke my water to get things started and then left because the on-call doctor was suposed to be heading over, and he just happened to be there doing a delivery. About 1 o'clock I was in so much pain I wanted an epidural. Never got it. So I was in active labor and dilated to a ten. About 3 o'clock it was still just us and our awesome nurse Yvonne, and it was time to start pushing (still no doctor). So I pushed for 40 minutes with the nurse with my mom and Steve coaching and holding my legs for me. No progress. The baby wasn't descending and he was facing the wrong way (sunnyside up). So we waited, because there still wasn't a doctor. I was in major pain with the back labor and was not very happy. I kept saying "give me and epidural and cut this thing out of me!" So about 5:30 the doctor shows up, decides its time for me to try pushing (ok already done that, it doesn't work) so we all got it postition he felt for the baby had me push and said the baby isn't going to come out he's stuck in the pelvis, we need to do a c-section. Thank You!! So Steve got changed into scrubs, they gave me drugs to stop the contractions which made me shake really really bad, took me into the OR and got me prepped. I got a spinal- most amazing thing in the whole world!!! I was so happy and smiley in the Operating Room, a completely different person the non-drugged up person I was just a few minutes before. Twenty minutes later Simon Stephen Buccambuso was born. (Although at first his name was Andrew, but we changed it)

Simon Stephen Buccambuso
November 7th, 2008 5:52 P.M
7 lbs. 2 oz. 21 inches
Brown hair Blue eyes (so far)

"Heelarious" and other ridiculous things

I saw these, and am so disgusted by them I feel it is necessary to share them with everyone. Heelarious Heels is what they are called, and these ones I came across advertised on craigslist for 0-6 month old babies. Babies!! High heels for babies!! I just think they are utterly disgusting and disturbing, but perhaps there are some out there that think they are cute??? Let me know what you think, I am just so blown away with these things and appalled by them. I can't even really say anything, I just stared at the computer monitor and shook my head and made Steve come over and look at them because I had nothing to say about them. Seriously, what do you guys think about them? Would you buy them for your little girl or a friends girl? If you like them, good for you, someone has to like them and buy them or they wouldn't make them, that someone is just not me. Oh, and they have a website where you can buy them. heelarious.com




So after I posted this originally I continued looking on craigslist for stuff and came across this Jeep pet stroller. There was a lady in the store the other day with one of these things, hers was hot pink. This is just ridiculous though, I thought it was bad enough that people would bring their pets into a furniture store, some loose, some on leashes, then I saw people with pets sticking out the top of their purse, or in their own little doggie carrying bag, and now they even have strollers for pets!! Honestly, what type of dog needs a stroller, can't it walk? Ugh. This second one is more like I saw at my store the other day. I googled pet stroller, and under images alone came up with 101,000 results. This brings a whole new meaning to taking your dog for a walk.

Pumpkin Carving

On Monday we had FHE at Mel and Jared's house. We carved pumpkins, and by we I mean most people, I helped scoop them out, then separated out all of the seeds so I could cook them, and then I left them at all at Mel's house. Whoops. Here are some pictures from that, but first I will post one of my Halloween "costume" that I wore to work. I knew none of my coworkers were going to dress up and I didn't want to be the only one dressed up so I semi-dressed up. I cut out the shapes and taped them on my shirt when I got to work.

My little "Jack"-o-Lantern (baby's name might end up being Jack)
Notice the little green stem or leaf in my hair

Steve starting on his huge pumpkin

Cindy showing Steve her finished product

It's Obama!

Cindy's Obama pumpkin

Renee's traditional cute jack-o-lantern

Mike's scary artistic pumpkin

Steve's asian pumpkin complete with Fu Manchu

The whole line up

Pregnancy Pictures: Week 37

Yep, still pregnant. Here are some pictures we took today.

Still not that big considering I only have 2 1/2 weeks left.

I made it through almost entire pregnancy with no stretch marks on my belly. About two weeks ago these appeared. They really aren't that bad, and you can barely see them in the picture, it's just mostly the bottom half of my stomach going in circles around my belly button. Although they have faded some the past couple of days, it still kind of makes me sad, I made it so far, but I shouldn't complain, these are nothing on what some people got.

Pumpkin Patch Date

A couple of Fridays ago, on the 17th, Steve and I went on a date!! We went to a pumpkin patch to pick out our pumpkins, and also went through the corn maze at the place, Ferrari Farms! This was my first time ever going to a pumpkin patch (that I can remember) and it was a lot of fun, although the pumpkins at these places are EXPENSIVE! or maybe I am just cheap. Steve's pumpkin cost $8 and mine was $2. Then it was $5 each to go through the corn maze, I think the maze was a reasonable price. The corn maze was not scary, the paths were very narrow, and after some searching we finally found the end!! After the pumpkin patch we went out to dinner at the Grand Sierra buffet, yummy! It was a very fun date. On the way we bought a wind-up flashlight which worked way good, I was very impressed! We had tons of fun and enjoyed our little fall date together and hope to start this as a family tradition. Anyways, enjoy the pictures!!