Coming to you live from the 6th floor of Memorial Hermann Hospital in Houston, Texas at 4:21 am, its baby Addison and the Penny family! Yes, Addie has decided it is time to join the family and her preciousness knows no bounds. Baby came into the world yesterday at 5:45 p.m. after Mandi spent about 9 hours in labor (the last two of which were the real pushing). Unfortunately for Momma (and Aunt Emily who was scared by the screaming) the epidural didn't entirely take effect and Mandi was intensely present for much of the delivery. But baby and mommy survived, and now it makes for a great story!
Addie came into this world at 8 lbs 4 oz, and has since lost about half a pound (she has to protect her girlish figure already apparently). She has beautiful gray-blue eyes and a nice mop of straight, dark hair. Her face was a little puffy around the eyes, and it looks like she may have the fabled Penny nose, but despite my genes she is precious beyond belief. While I will spare the world of the Interwebs much of the gory details, she is eating great and is ahead of the game when it comes to .... um ... doing her business. I can see a glimpse of my life for the next, oh, six months, where the highlight of my day is not that the Texas Longhorns basketball team had a great victory against Oklahoma State but the fact that my daughter ate a lot and made big poopy diapers!
Mandi got some much needed rest tonight, and Daddy had his first real stretch flying solo with Addie. It was a wonderful bonding time, and laying here finally starting to focus much of the emotion and many of the scattered thoughts of the past few days. The center of my world has shifted, dear readers, to this adorable little mass of person, and things are never going to be the same! So you who are permitted, continue to sleep well. Me....I'm off to another diaper duty.
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