Lily

Lily turned one month today and so I thought I would put a few pictures up of her and say a few things.

She was born at 3:36 am on Friday the 21st of December.

8 pounds 1 oz. 20.5 inches long

Labor was really short about 4 hours. Only 1 where I was really in pain, and I got to do it without an epidural since I had such a terrible experience last time. Another nurse came in after and said I did a good job because usually you can hear screaming all the way down the hall with women who do it naturally but no one heard me. So I guess that's good.

We named her Lily Ataline. Its funny how picking out names work, I had a list of 30 names that I liked and Ian looked at it once and said, "these are all terrible, except for Lily." But before I got pregnant we had a different name picked out, this may sound crazy but i feel like that little spirit kind of picks out their own name. It happened the same way with Max. I hated the name Max, but then i got preggo and somehow it just felt right. Her middle name is Ataline which is an anagram for Natalie. I never really liked my middle name Marie and neither did Ian and I didn't want her middle name to be Natalie because that sounded lame, and I really like the name Adaline, so thats how she got her middle name.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 She was pretty fat when she came out, and blond. Neither of us were expecting that.

She looked so chubby, bruised, and angry we thought she resembled the old lady from The Goonies. At least for the first day or so.