Week 1: Welcome, Olivia Jane!

Miss Olivia Jane Mendez was born at 12:37pm on Thursday, August 2, 2012.  She weighed 7lbs 13ozs and was 19.75 inches long.  She was my third and largest baby, born via c-section at the same hospital as Andrew & Macy.  The day was long and tiresome but we are very blessed that she's finally here and healthy... and simply the best baby ever.  No, really, she is.  :)  So welcome to her very own photo blog.  Her big sister had one for her 1st year of life (365daysofmacy.blogspot.com), so of course she has to have one of her own :)  The out-of-town-not-on-facebook friends and family will appreciate this. Enjoy seeing Olivia's very first week of life, in photos!  (just a warning - there are a lot of photos in this first entry but from here on out there probably won't be as many...and definitely less writing - I'll leave that to my normal blog)

Macy & Andrew "meet" their new baby sister via text message :)

My family waited as patiently as possible and jumped to my bedside as we rolled down the hallway to my room.  :)

She found that thumb right away!  (but has since not had a care in the world for it!)

Papa getting his baby time in...

Just had to try our new hat on :)

Despite the photo, she loved having her head washed, and still does...a girl after my own heart :)

My turn!  Recovery was tough on me and I waited quite a while before holding her just from the dizziness and nausea.  Better safe than sorry, and daddy had her right next to my bedside the whole time so I knew she was fine until I was too :)

The sweetest 3 kids ever.  In my opinion anyway.  :)

Of course it didn't take me too long to get her up and into a photo shoot of her own.  

Nothing like the love of a big brother.  

...or the love of a bigger brother :)

Can they be any cuter?!

Holding daddy's hand.

We're home!!

 VERY proud big sister.  

First night home, Macy's already sharing her stickers with her baby sister :)

Buela -- a special treat that she and Olivia will forever share the same birthday :)  Thank you, Buela, for everything!!  (especially the tortillas that I gobbled up the first night I was home!)

Giving some love to "that baby".  :)

First time out of the house!  7 days old, a trip to the neighborhood sno-cone stand to celebrate her 1st week of life and Macy's almost-3rd birthday :)