Evelyn Rose

After much ado, we gratefully met our healthy baby girl at 4:11 p.m. on Wednesday, September 21st.  She weighed in at 7 lbs. 7 oz. and was 19.5" long at 39 weeks.

It's a miracle that any baby ever gets here in one piece as far as I'm concerned.  And she is certainly no exception

She's a doll, and we are loving getting to know her.  She already loves her Daddy's voice and is totally cool with all of her brother's singing, hooting, and hollering.

She is very strong, lifts her head, moves it all around, and can quickly and firmly get both of her hands and arms in the way the entire time she's trying to nurse.

She's waking up a little more every day--before I know it she'll be running around the house.  I'm simultaneously trying to feed her, love on Spencer, and manage to store up some amount of memories about all that has happened in the past couple of days.  Many more blogs to come on all that later, I'm sure.

Amazed doesn't begin to describe our feelings that she's here and she's ours.  We are loving being a family of four, and, all things considered, we are sleeping pretty well.

I feel fifteen years older after her delivery in comparison to how I felt after Spencer's--and it's less than a three year difference.  It's unreal.  But, it's been so much fun bringing a baby home to a toddler sibling--brings back lots of sibling memories.