A quick update

There is no way to fully update you about your life over the last 5 months. So I'll just give you the brief highlights. 1) Elliot had jaundice and was admitted to the hospital for 3 1/2 days after he was originally released. It was hard, especially for me (Ali) because Nick had to go back to work and the hospital was allowing me to feed/pump for Elliot. Therefore, less than a week after Elliot was born, I was sitting at the hospital almost all day by myself waiting to feed or pump for Elliot. It was nice to have good, uninterrupted nights of sleep, but life actually became easier once he was home! 2) Maternity was a great time to get to know Elliot. There were a lot of hard times because he wasn't taking naps during the day, but instead cried a lot. We figured that maybe he was dairy intolerant, so I stopped eating/drinking all dairy products. 3) When my mat leave was over, Papa and Mimi (Ali's parents) came for babysitting detail. They loved it, Elliot loved it and we love it. We miss you, Papa and Mimi! Elliot also met a-gong (Nick's dad). 4) We finished the last 2 months of school.

A Valentine Day's never to be forgotten

Sunday, February 12th, I started to have a weird feeling during church. After church, I told Nick, I think I had a few contractions during church, but I'm not sure. As we ate dinner and watched TV that night, I noticed a few more. By the time we went to bed that night, I told Nick, "we might have a baby tomorrow." All night, we tried to sleep, but I didn't sleep long enough between contractions which were coming every 5 minutes for about 45-60 seconds each. In our birthing classes, the doula told us to go to the hospital when contractions were 4 minutes apart, 1 minute long, for 1 hour. She also said if they started during the night, try to take a bath to relax your body so you can sleep. So into the bath I went. And nothing happened. So at 5am, I got up and took a shower (because I wasn't going to have a baby with dirty hair--I know, I know but I wanted the hospital pictures to look decent). Finally, the hot shower was helping the contractions/back labor and so I stayed there for about 45 minutes. Well...the doula never told me not to take a LONG shower! When I got out of the shower, I called school and told them the baby was coming and we weren't coming in. But...contractions had stopped. We spent the next 19 hours trying to get consistent contractions again. We watched TV, we went for 2 one hour long walks and I climbed 11 flights of stairs twice. Still, my contractions were anywhere from 20-45 minutes apart! By 10pm, we were contemplating going to work the next day because we didn't want to just sit around the house for nothing. But as we got ready for bed that night, the contractions began to intensify. I knew that we needed to sleep because the night before we didn't really sleep. I wasn't sure how I was supposed to have a baby if I didn't sleep for 2 nights. So, we decided to go to the hospital to get an epidural so I could sleep (and thus allowing Nick to sleep also.) When we got to the hospital, I was hopefully that I was at least a few cm dilated. Unfortunately, I was only 2cm dilated. By 4am, I was 3 cm and they agreed to give me an epidural. After that, we slept until 7am. The rest of the story goes like this...I was slow to dilate, they tried to induce, that was even slower. Finally at 4pm, my doctor came and broke my water and by 5:30, I was in the delivery room getting ready for this baby. FINALLY, at 6:11pm, Elliot Joshua Su came into this world. And just like that, it was all over...YET, something NEW and WONDERFUL was just beginning.

The NEW Su family!

The hospital had a little baby photo shoot for Elliot. This is just one of many costume/prop changes. So funny!

Doesn't he just look so tiny?

Still with us!? Hope so!

February 11th (one day before Baby Su started the long 46 hour process to come to the world), I apologized for not keeping up with the blog. Well...5 months later...I'm apologizing again because of a long, though well-desired, break from blogging. As a new stay-at-home mom, I have deemed Tuesday's as BLOG DAY! I'm going to try to put different kinds of blog entries on here so that you don't get bored with a weekly overview of the Sus. I'll do Su life updates, Elliot updates and cooking updates. Hopefully, you'll find something that interests you!