Verity, 1 day old

Mama and the babe

Camera shy?

As corny as it is, (but that is just SO what you should expect from me by now), all I can say about her is captured in a clip from Elf LOL

Other than that: Holy crap. My body hurts all over

Thank you every one for the prayers and comments and support. When going through the hardest part of my labor, I knew that the little twitter updates Chris had done that morning were alerting you to pray for us and I felt like I could hear the cheerleading getting us through it! I can’t believe we did it (and I mean, seriously, I CAN’T believe it), I’m SO glad it’s over and that we are now holding our tiny baby girl. It was such a different labor experience from Ethan’s and I will blog all about it when it all sinks in!

I will not be on the laptop much, trying to “lay in” with Verity and recover, but Chris reads me your comments and emails (between caring for our sick son and bringing me food and drinks and medicine all the time). I am SO proud of him, ya’ll – you guys should have seen him. I literally clung to his neck and hung from his body wailing from like 9am to Verity’s birth that afternoon. I have no doubt his back and arms are as sore as mine right now! He’s my hero!!!