Maggie's first few days

Below are some more pictures of our beautiful new addition to our family. Maggie has been such a wonderful, mellow baby so far. We are so blessed to have 2 wonderful girls and to be surrounded by such great family and friends!

At the hospital, my parents and Kate were the first to drop on by for a visit. Even though my mom has 6 grand kids, she LOVES them all so very much!
Since I went into labor on my birthday, I was not able to enjoy any birthday cake so my mom brought the cake to the hospital and had added Maggie's name to the top. It was a very cute and fitting surprise!

Papa and Maggie

Kate was amazing at the hospital. On the day of our discharge, Kate had to hang around the hospital for about 3 hours. We kept her busy with movies and crackers. She also loved playing with the buttons on the hospital bed. Very happy Mommy with Maggie!

Ahh, the bouncy seat is the best baby holder when you need to eat or get chores done. It was my lifesaver with Kate and Maggie seems to like it too. Hooray!

Sister bonding.

She looks so much like Kate when she sleeps!

Auntie Sarah and cousin Chloe meeting Maggie for the first time

Kate LOVES her new sister. She was so excited to hold Maggie!

Kate insisted that she and Maggie needed to take a nap in Maggie's crib. Too cute! Sisterly love...

Maggie Has Arrived!!!

Just a quick update. We are still at Mercy General Hospital, hopefully we can come home today. Will came home to upload a few pictures to keep everyone in the loop.

Here we are at the hospital. This is Monday night, probably around 7:00 PM.


Maggie graced us with her presence at 1:38AM. 8 lbs, 12oz, 18.5 in long. Just like Kate, she has a full head of dark hair!

More pictures soon!

Some cute pictures while we wait...

Since Maggie has decided that she would like to take her time arriving in this world, I thought I would share a few pictures of Kate from this past week. I have been trying to get Kate to sit still for me while I attempt to do her hair. I have been able to do a few pigtails but I still need to work on mastering them.

This afternoon Kate asked Will to help her make a robot out of newspaper. I think she got the idea from a Curious George episode. Check out our Robot Kate.

Princess Bell

Kate was being super goofy today. She dressed up as Princess Bell and danced around in Maggie's room. This is the kind of thing we are doing to keep busy while we wait for Maggie to enter this world.

Kate's first haircut

Today was Kate's very first haircut. I have never taken scissors to her hair, except to take out a couple of impossible knots. I felt like now was a good time to even out her hair before out lives are completely chaotic with a little baby. Kate was amazing for my hairstylist. She sat very still and very patiently. Afterwards she was rewarded with a little lollipop and chocolate milk from Starbucks. What a big girl!

Before picture of hair.

An after shot of Kate's hair. We cut off very little...just enough to even it all out. Of course I had to save some of her hair for her baby book.