Our New Addition

On Monday February 6th we were blessed with a daughter, Cecilia Berdene.  My great great grandmother's name was Cecilia and Brad's grandmother's middle name was Berdene.  The boys both have family names and we wanted to continue with that tradition.  It was so wonderful to finally meet her, hold her and love on her.  I was so convinced she would arrive early so when her due date came and went the anticipation was killing all of us.

Cecilia wrapped in the blanket Grandma Pat made for her.

Holding Mommy's finger

When my in-laws brought the boys up to meet their sister we weren't exactly sure how it would go.  We were prepared as we possibly could be.  The boys came up after nap time, my in-laws picked up dinner to eat at the hospital with us, and Brad had the portable DVD player ready to go with a movie to help entertain the boys.  Vince jumped up on the bed with me and Cecilia and said "She's a girl.  She's a girl.  I tell you she was going to be a girl and she still is.  Coo chee coo chee coo.  She is so cute!"   Joel saw the DVD player as soon as he walked into the room and didn't really care about anything else.  A little while later he came up on the bed with me and mumbled something and then said "That baby!" and I asked him if he wanted to kiss her head and he did.  Then he quickly crawled down to finish his dinner and movie.  It was by far the best reaction I could have ask for from the boys.

Daddy holding her feet

Seeing me in the hospital bed with an IV catheter and wearing a hospital gown really was a bit much for Vince.  He had been pretty emotional the couple days before Cecilia arrived.  He would be fine for awhile and then just start crying or asking me to hold him for no reason.  When we were at the hospital he kept asking if it was still ok to give me kisses and hugs.  It about broke my heart!  When it was time for them to go back home with Grandma Diane and Grandpa Craig Vince was in tears and kept saying he wanted to stay with me "all day long."  Brad walked them out to the truck and told me the boys were both fine until the walked outside and then they both started crying.  My two momma boys just didn't want to leave me.  Luckily I knew that once they got back to Grandma and Grandpa's house they would be fine.  When they came to visit on Tuesday they were much better.  The fact that I was wearing real clothes and no longer had a catheter in helped a lot.  Vince noticed as soon as he came in to see me.  No one melted when it was time to leave either!

Daddy, Mommy, Cecilia

On Wednesday afternoon Brad brought Cecilia and I home and then Grandma Diane dropped the boys off a few hours later.  The dogs were so excited to have everyone home, the boys were running laps (and making Brad join them) around the house and taking breaks to get as close to me as possible and I was happy to have everyone home and just sit and watch the chaos!  It finally became real that we are the parents of 3 kids!

Cecilia showing us how she can wink.

1st family picture...not sure why Vince has a wrinkle nose.