New pics

Thanks to Grandma Madsen who is such a diligent photographer. She sent these pics of Lucy (yay, cuz ours are all dark and hard to see)... She's pretty content to just hang out and take in the view.
I'm not sure what she's thinking; I'm not sure I want to know, either.

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I guess I assumed our friends and family knew the story of Lucy...wrong. So here goes:

She was born on the 4th of July, happy and healthy. Later that night, the nurses noticed her breathing was extremely rapid and she was admitted into the NICU. Her breathing regulated after a couple of days, but by then she had jaundice. So, while she was working on maintaining her breathing, she was also working on getting rid of her jaundice. Needless to say, she was in the NICU for 8 days. The hardest part was going home without her. Although I have to admit the silver lining of that gray cloud was knowing she was well taken care of while I was spending time with Luke and recovering myself.

Lucy is now home and doing awesome. We all survived our first night with two children (Lucy slept 4 hours at a time!!) and we're relatively awake this morning! (Naps this afternoon for all of us).

Thanks to our great friends and family for their love and support and help during this...interesting transition into parents-of-two.

HOORAY!!!

She's here - and home! Lucy finally came home. She is happy and healthy and so are we!!!

Luke is so soft and tender with her...his little sister "Moosy"

Yeah for Lucy!!

Well, as promised, here are a few pics of our sweet baby girl. She isn't home yet, but well on her way.

Lucy sleeping after a good meal.

Happy to be here - ready to eat! No more IV!! Hurray!!!

Proud big brother! (tired mommy).

More news and pics as we get them!!

Happy 4th of July!

Ok. We had a great weekend. We BBQ'd with friends, attended a parade (overcast and not too hot), enjoyed lunch with Grandma Irene, BBQ'd with Rich's family and...

HAD A BABY!!

Can you believe it? my water broke as everyone was leaving the BBQ at our house. Grandma Madsen stayed with Luke, Rich and I headed to the hospital (9 p.m.), Lucy was born at 11:01 p.m.

I will post pics as soon as I can! keep watching for more...