Fake Mustaches

A dear friend showed up at my home one day shortly after Cora was born.  She came bearing gift bags for each of the children then proceeded to scrub and sweep and clean my house. That was awesome. I was so exhausted I couldn't object.  I enjoyed those scrubbed floors, well until we had the next meal. 

The gifts bags were awesome.  My kids' total enjoyment of the fake mustaches was awesome.  I need a stash of these things.  (Note to self: Ask friend where she got them.)

Eliza believed she was following the crowd because her brothers said they were going to wear them to bed.  They didn't.  She did however.  Funny, funny.

And just to throw a random picture in there . . . our sleeping Cora.  This is how we see her most days.  (Not always the same way at night however.)  But they are precious, sweet, darling newborns so you can't blame them too much.  However, I do try to reinforce to her when I see her shining eyes during the day how much I enjoy seeing her awake.

 

A Girl!

We are thrilled to introduce
Cora
 

Born Friday, September 28th
Weighing 8 lbs 2 oz
Length 21 inches

When we expecting this little tie-breaker we really had a hard time guessing if she would be a boy or a girl.  Sometimes we leaned boy, sometimes we leaned girl.  I credit my mother-in-law for giving me more surety; she enjoys predicting and for some reason is always wrong.  I had been thinking I was going to have a boy and a few months back I asked her for her prediction.  She predicted boy.  I think that's a pretty amazing track record!

Labor and delivery was relatively uneventful.  Well, if you can call delivering a baby while on Pitocin without pain meds uneventful.  Hey, I just want to keep the nurses and my husband from being bored.  She was earlier than we anticipated.  My doctor has been itching to induce me and well, he got his answer in the form of an itch.  All over on me, that is.  I was itching like crazy which apparently was a possible sign of liver issues with me which could potentially adversely affect that baby.  So off to induction I went.  Clark and I were a bit panicked since we were not prepared on who would take our kids.  Miraculously it all worked out.  And I am so, so, so grateful for the two women who at the last minute took my children.  So grateful! 

And now, we are doing it solo with five kids and happily anticipating Grandma coming next week.  I have decided that sleep is overrated but babies are so worth it!