In Other News...

We've had some interesting things happen in our family this month. One of the first was this:

I woke up one morning to find The Eldest on the couch, quietly reading a book. How awesome is that?

A few days later, The Hub and I encountered this:
A certain princess (and eventually, her princess sister) REQUESTED to vacuum the couch. Do you think Cinderella cleaned the castle voluntarily after she married the prince? Maybe she did.


But the most time-consuming, labor-intensive (ha!) event began on November 6th with some labor pains. After three days of it, I went to my regular OB appointment. Active labor in the waiting room landed me here shortly after my appointment:

A few hours later, I was tired enough to think that an epidural might be helpful, so then I ended up here:

The epidural didn't fully take--I could feel some pretty intense pain on my right side with every contraction, but it was endurable. After 40 minutes of pushing, in which a certain little boy thought it would be fun to play jack-in-the-box, we ended up with this:



The happy sisters:

The daddy who is relieved not to be the ONLY male in the house anymore:

The obligatory post-clean up picture:

Sisterly love:



Love from a besotted Nana:

And a dang cute boy:

Vital statistics:
The Boy
(to be called by his initials)
Born early November
(during his cousin's 5th birthday party)
7:50pm
7 lbs, 12 oz.
(my smallest baby yet, by far!)
21 inches long
(this is more like it)

So there you go. For those who are keeping track, The Boy did show up exactly two weeks early. Why? Don't know, don't care (I'm guessing some miscalculation of dates on my part or the OB's).
I'm just glad he's here!