Guess Who's Here?!

Baby Jane is here!!

Jane Elizabeth was born on Thursday morning March 19th, 2015 after a flying 1.5hrs of labour (phew). She weighed 3240grams and is 51.5cm in length. 

We are loving having an infant in our home again. I think the kids are scared they’ll break her - they’ve been very cautious around her. The most common statement in our household right now is “She’s SO CUTE”.

She is adorable and we thank God for this amazing little gift. I can’t wait to learn of her personality. I’m in heaven. I can understand why people think humans start out innocent. It’s hard when they’re so little to really comprehend that we are born as sinful God-haters in desperate need of His great grace! I am shocked still (a week later) that she is a girl. I was utterly convinced we were having another boy. Thankfully I am far from disappointed. During the pregnancy I was worried it was a girl because darling Emma is just as emotional as me and life can be exhausting for the both of us sometimes in our relationship. But God reminded me that He knows what is best for every family and having Jane at this time is His prefect pleasure and I praise him for that.

Due to my sleep deprivation (and that I need to feed Jane and get to school for Emma’s parent/teacher interview!) I’m just going to post a bunch of photos and be done with the introduction for now . . .hopefully it won’t be too long before I have more dazzling pictures that all look the same of our newborn.

She's the best big sister in the universe. God has blessed me with her!

 The children say "Awwww, she's having a happy dream"

She is SO small.

Lasts and Firsts

Baby #3 will arrive in 2 days! TWO DAYS! Eish. I have been living in a false sense of security thinking that things will be easier in our household when the baby arrives! huh?! yeah, I know. I’m setting myself up for a big crash! That said I do think that there are a couple of attitude issues that might improve in the two big kids. I caught Emma out today in the car - she’s in the middle and the baby capsule is facing her. She was sucking her fingers (which she started doing at 6 weeks after refusing the dummy/pacifier and hasn’t stopped) and I said “You’ll be a bad influence on the baby! It’ll copy you and suck it’s fingers too!” to which she replied “But baby’s are meant to suck their fingers”. Of course it was too easy for me then . . . “so why are you sucking yours??” . . . .coy smile. It was cute.

As we were having lunch today my darling boy just said to me “It’s a mummy William day today!” which it surely is. Sadly though, it hit me - this is our last one ever!! It’s been loads of fun having him at home by himself this year and last. I had that with Emma because he still napped a lot before she was at Kindy and now I’ve had that time with Will. I love that this God ordained age gap between Will and baby is big because I’ll also have opportunity to spend one on one time with baby while it’s young. Won’t it be nice to read “he” or “she” next week? I’m looking forward to my little holiday in the hospital for four nights! Not sure how the house will look upon my return but I know everyone will have food and water while I’m gone so that’s good enough for me. Until then, I’m going to read a book with my little buddy.

(this was us last night striking a pose . . .

can you guess which parent brushed his hair after bath time?)