Welcome Home Sonny!

Here are some pics of Alexya getting to meet and hold her new baby brother for the first time. She was very excited to get to hold him and didn't want to let him go...at least not without a kiss first!

Here's Mimi getting to hold her new grandson for the first time...he got very comfortable! :)

Santino is Born!

Santino Robert Hernandez was born on his due date of January 26, 2009 at 1:32am at Kaiser Hospital in Antioch.
He weighed a whopping 9lbs and was 22in long. Here he is fresh and brand new!

My labor was actually insanely quick...I was totally caught off guard and didn't even realize that I was having "actual" contractions and not just random ones on Sunday...until about 9pm when we decided to go to bed and they got really painful and so I checked the time and noticed they were 10 min apart...so I waited and had a couple more then woke up robert to call his parents to come pick up Alexya and suddenly they were 5 min apart and we were like "crap we have to get to the hospital!" I went down to get in the car and then they were already coming 3 min apart! His dad got here and we took off to the hospital, which is luckily only 10 min away, and by the time I got inside to check in I was 1 min apart and I asked for an epidural and they laughed at me and said "sorry hunny, but you about to deliver your baby." I was already 6 cm and by the time they got me checked in and in the room I was at 9cm and started pushing. It took about 30 min to push him out and so he came out at 1:32am and I did it w/o the epidural which is insane to me. Something I never thought I would do in my life would be give birth and take the pain! So wow...thanks Sonny for coming so fast and thanks Robert for helping me focus through the pain! :)

Proud, exhausted and happy parents!

All cleaned up, healthy, adorable and ready to go home!
Thanks for everyone who called and/or texted good wishes! We are home and recovering and Alexya is getting to know her new brother.

The Countdown...& Announcement

Here's a recent picture of me...no, not santa...with my huge belly. It's funny how I'm carrying him all in the front so it just sticks way way out and is hard to keep my balance sometimes. Also, if you had the stomach for it (figuratively speaking) I would put up pictures of my belly w/o a shirt and you could see that it looks like freddy crougar took his claws and scratched them down the front of my stomach leaving horrible ugly stretch marks! Whaaaa! :(.... Oh well, the price you pay for being the lucky one to carry the baby for 9 months.

Anyway, I'll try to stop whining...it's really all I do these days and so I was trying NOT to blog because I knew this would happen and you all would be like "shut up already you whiney chick" and stop reading it. So on the positive side of things :) big smiles :) I'm on the countdown and only have about 2 more weeks to go...if Sonny comes on time (hey what's up with you people that voted he's going to be late?? Shame shame! ). He's actually really been a sweet baby so far without putting me through all the vicious kicks and punches that I had to deal with with Alexya. His movements have been so soft and slow and if they are painful it's only because he doesn't have that much room and the poor guy needs to stretch out once in a while. He does, however, get the hiccups at least 2-5, yes 5 times a day!! Which I thought was so weird and not normal..but my doctor says it happens. I don't remember Alexya having them THAT much...she had them alot, but it was like 2-4 times a week. Oh well, he is definately different and I can't wait to see how he will be when he's on the outside!

Here are some of the pictures we took of Alexya's Christmas morning at home. She got a big dinosaur from Santa and not only can she ride on it, but as you can see she is incredibly strong and can also carry it! ;) She is just getting bigger and taller lately too and is learning a new word every day. We really have to be careful what we are saying now because she is just soaking up words like a sponge and repeating them throughout the day. It's actually really fun to try to figure out what she is saying...like a game show or something...she'll repeat a word over and over and you're like "what the heck are you saying??" and then you figure it out and get so excited like you just won the game! ...or maybe it's just like that to us since we are in lexy land.

Anyway, the last and most important thing I have to post is another exciting announcement...

So, you already know that my brother is engaged and going to be getting married in April to Andrea.
Also, my sister-in-law, Erica, is pregnant and expecting her baby girl, Kara, to be born in February.

Now, the announcement I've been waiting for and am so super excited to tell is that my dad has FINALLY proposed to his girlfriend of the past 9 years, Sushuma and they will be getting married in late July or early August this year! So we can officially now call her mom and call her sons, Chris and Daniel, our brothers (even though we've been considering them family for years...it will finally be all nice and official) :). YAY!
Tons of new family members are coming in 2009 so it IS a very very happy new year for us!