2010 Wrap-up

All in all, a pretty uneventful year. Happy New Year everyone, and we'll see you in 2011.

Phoebe Jane comes home

Phoebe Jane finally sleeps for a good long while, after not sleeping most of the night. About 6am we were at wit's end, but then she had a final feeding and slept for about 4 hours, which to us was like nirvana.

Phoebe and Kate get ready to come home. Kate was happy to finally put on some real clothes for the first time in a couple days. Phoebe was in her first non-hospital outfit, including a snazzy hat knit by great-grandma Tomkinson.

Phoebe stylin' in her car seat. She fell asleep in that thing right away. Noted for future reference.


She's in our house! Who authorized this?
Danger (on the left) and Lucy explore the new addition. Rocky also explored when we first brought her home, but by the time I got the camera out he had already run upstairs and hidden under the bed.


Lucy goes in for a closer look.

At the time of this writing, after being home for about an hour, Rocky is still hiding, Lucy is back to being her usual self, and Danger keeps following Phoebe around everywhere. Pretty much as we'd expected.

On to night two!

Phoebe Jane Gottlieb

Phoebe Jane Gottlieb was born at 3:55am PST. 7 lbs, 12 oz. 20.5 inches long. Mom and baby are both doing great. Everyone is pretty tired, though.

Phoebe being weighed. She was still adjusting to being on the outside. She definitely has a healthy set of lungs.

Phoebe with her mama. This was a little better, as it was kind of cozy. Not as cozy as being on the inside, though.
Phoebe with papa. By now she had seemed to calm down.
Of course, five seconds later.....


Phoebe's first bath. She was not a fan.


Asleep at last!

5 Days Past Due

And still no sign of Bagel.

I also still have a really bad cold.  Jeremy says that if we showed up at the hospital at this point we would be just as likely to get sent to quarantine as to the maternity ward.  He is hilarious.

Actually, Jeremy has been taking very good care of me.  He even went out and got me Pho (Vietnamese chicken noodle soup) for dinner the last few nights.  The biggest excitement around here happened when Danger, thinking he was being sneaky and stealing some of my dinner, accidentally got a big mouthful of the hot sauce that came with my Pho.  Despite the fact that when I saw him headed for the hot sauce I yelled "NO, Danger" he still acted like the whole hot sauce incident was entirely my fault - I got a lot of dirty kitty looks for the rest of the night.  He seems to have recovered just fine and he was back to trolling for handouts at breakfast this morning.

Quick Update

Still no baby.

In other news, I did manage to get a really bad cold for Christmas.  Santa must have misunderstood my list this year.  I asked for a CHILD not a COLD.  Maybe it is time for the old guy to get new glasses.  Anyway, I've been spending my days on the couch alternately drinking OJ, blowing my nose and taking naps.  At least it (partially) takes my mind off the fact that we're still waiting around for Bagel to make her appearance. 

Hope everyone had a Merry Christmas and that you all got better presents than a cold!

Merry Christmas Eve

In our family, my grandma is the regular church goer.  She doesn't just go to church, she is very involved - my mom jokes that Gram has to pray doubly hard to cover for the rest of us heathens.  In addition to taking care of all of our spiritual needs, Gram volunteers with charities through the church, and is so well known for bringing food to folks who need comfort that chocolate bundt cake is known as "Maxine's funeral cake" throughout the congregation.  I've always admired my Grandma's dedication to volunteer work though her church.  Growing up I also enjoyed going to services when we'd go visit - one of my favorite times to go is Christmas Eve for the candle light service.

This Christmas Eve, Gram is in the hospital and not doing great, so she wasn't able to go to services.  Since we're out in California and can't go visit Gram, Jeremy and I went to Christmas Eve services out here in her honor.  We certainly hope she is feeling better soon, because our souls are surely better off in her hands than ours! 

Due Date

Yes today is our due date.
No we do not have a baby yet.