We arrived home from the hospital yesterday morning and all is going well. I feel fantastic compared to how I felt after Nathaniel.
Here is a little run down of the last week. We went in Monday morning to have the baby and the big question on my mind was whether I would have to be knocked out like I was for Nathaniel or be awake. The anesthesiologist kept trying to do a spinal, but it wasn't working. He thought he was just about in the right place then he would hit my back bone. After over an hour of being hunched over on the operating table, he decided to try an epidural needle in my back then thread a spinal through that. Success! I was so happy because I really wanted to see one of my kids be born. The freezing was pretty much instantaneous and was a very strange feeling or lack of feeling to say the least.
Once I was frozen, about 5 minutes later, out came Sarah! Just as my obstetrician was about to pull her out, she and the other surgeon started laughing like crazy. I figured that wasn't a bad thing, that most likely I wasn't about to die or anything. Then she said, "Look at the size of that baby!!" and all I could think was, "Great, another monster baby". Sure enough, 10 lbs and 5 oz later, the chubster emerged. She let out a big holler, which was great to hear, they brought her over to show me-she looked like a giant purple plum then wrapped her up and did a few tests on her. In a few minutes, they brought her over to Iain and we got to coo over her for about 10 minutes before Iain and the nurse went to the recovery room with Sarah to wait for me. After that, I just kept feeling better and better and things are going really well.
She is a great baby so far-sleeps, eats, looks around for a bit and then repeats the cycle. We are totally enthralled by her and I love her dark hair-it is almost black. She has big blue eyes, the exact same colour as Iain's. Nathaniel thinks she is quite funny but he wasn't very impressed when he woke up in the middle of the night last night and came into our room and wanted me to cuddle him and I was feeding Sarah. At 2AM, all 4 of us were in our bed, wide awake. Iain was not overly impressed but I thought it was rather humourous. Things got better after that and we all ended up with a good sleep.
So far, having two rats hasn't been as terrifying as I was thinking it would be, thankfully.
Okay, maybe I am a bit crazy with post-pregnancy hormones since my daughter is not only wearing a dress, but a PINK dress with PINK tights...but I have to admit I think she looks pretty cute. I guess it is okay for your daughter to dress like this as long as I don't have to.
Checking out the beach. It was strange to be there and not have 140 grade 8's milling around. Nice to not have to be constantly counting heads...this is a field trip we take the kids at school on every year, FYI.
Granny flew in from Stratford for a nice visit with Nathaniel and to meet Sarah for the first time. After a few days of rain, we had some nice weather and headed down to Saint John for the day. Nathaniel had lots of fun playing hockey with Granny and Sarah enjoyed lots of snuggles. Rumour has it, Granny may make another visit soon and hopefully will drag Aunt Helen along for the ride!
I am the sun and the small universe known as our house apparently revolves around me. I sat on the couch for about an hour or so feeding Sarah and letting her nap and this is what our previously tidy living room turned into in. Everything and everyone shoved in around me-even the f-ing dogs that I half hate.
I won't even tell you what time it was when this picture was taken. Let's just say it was in the AM.
We arrived home from the hospital yesterday morning and all is going well. I feel fantastic compared to how I felt after Nathaniel.
Here are some more pictures of our little girl. Love the kimono-nice easy way to change sleeping babies without them even waking up!
Nathaniel has been tricking us for the last month or so by giving us some indication that he may want to be potty trained sometime in the foreseeable future. Since we are soon to have 2 babes in diapers, we are okay with that. He has been telling us when he is pooping for the last few weeks and likes to sit on the potty but we have never been able to coordinate the two with a favourable result.
We went for a little drive out to Gagetown and Jemseg on Sunday for one last ride on the ferry that may be shut down at the end of the month. This is the view waiting for the ferry to come pick us up-nice little swath of open water to paddle through. There were some pretty big chunks of ice in the open water area that made reassuring sounds as they smashed against the hull of the ferry - I quite enjoyed that!
I love these pyjamas! They are so soft and cute on him-makes him look like a little old man. I wish I had bought him a couple of more pairs in bigger sizes.
There is some serious love going on between Nathaniel and Karson. All they try to do is make each other laugh and Nathaniel copies everything Karson does. We had a sleepover on friday night and they were both thrilled.
We bought this suit at MEC and it is worth it's weight in gold if you have kids that enjoy the wet and muck. Nathaniel has put this suit through it's paces this week and it has done an excellent job. To give an example, he tripped and fell face first in this puddle and flopped around in it until I could waddle over to rescue him and he was still completely dry. I highly recommend. Plus I think he looks adorable in it.
As you can see, he is even trying to be tricky as he eats yet another handful of snow. He loves it-walking around plowing it into his mouth saying, "Snow, yummy!". He doesn't even pick nice clean snow, just whatever is closest which is taking a risk in a household where there are 2 dogs and 3 cats. 
He will probably kill me for dressing him like this when he gets older but it keeps him warm and dry for now.
There is a big puddle at the end of our walkway that has provided hours of amusement for Nathaniel this week. We finally received some half decent weather - sunshine and temperatures above freezing, so we have spent a fair amount of time playing in the driveway. Well, I do not do much playing, I sit on my stool and watch to make sure he doesn't drown in one of the puddles. We can't play on the lawn because there is still a good four feet of snow covering it.
Nathaniel loves playing with the set of Russian stacking dolls, with his goal of making it to the smallest one, also known by the original name of "Baby". He LOVES baby, squeals over it, even loves to carry it around in his mouth (which leads to a few fights over ol' Baby). 
