My Songs of Joy: Our newest family member.

I am a bad blogger! It has been a long time since I posted, but in my defense I had a baby 2 weeks ago and have been a little preoccupied! Nevertheless, I need to share our story and pictures of my precious little princess with all my blog buddies!

Things did not go as I planned.

I was scheduled to go into the hospital on Dec 29^th, at 4pm to have a planned C-section. I was instructed that I couldn’t eat anything that day after 8 am, so Chad and I planned on getting up at 6am and going out for breakfast to one of our favorite little pancakes places, while my mom and dad stayed home with the kids. We had our family Christmas the day before and had stayed up really late playing UNO Attack with Noah and the grandparents, so I wasn’t fully packed, but I figured I would finish that morning, since we didn’t have to be at the hospital until 2pm. I was having a very hard time sleeping; I kept getting up, going to the bathroom, tossing and turning, checking the clock to see if it was close to pancake time! At 4am I felt a familiar pain, and I hit my husband, and got our of bed, and then “whoooosh” my water broke. Ok, so things were not going the way I had hoped. You see when I had Noah I was so into birth, I labored for a long time, but I was prepared for it, then when Benjamin came around, his C-section was planned, we went in and I never labored or anything. So, when my water broke this time, I was none too pleased, not because I am a big baby or anything like that, I just like to be prepared, and I WAS NOT PREPARED TO HAVE CONTRACTIONS! So, it took about 15 minutes for them to start coming regularly, I tried to remember back 7 years ago when I took Lamaze, I remembered something about breathing, while my husband is snapping a thousand pictures! He was no help at all; every time I needed a hand to squeeze he was taking a picture, seriously!

We got the hospital and they wheeled me in and Ella Noelle Graber was born at 6:15am, she weighed 7lbs 14 oz, and was the prettiest thing ever! With very fat cheeks, I’m afraid she got those from me. I am praying that she doesn’t inherit my big boobs! I wouldn’t wish those on anyone!

We are all home now, I am still recovering, slowly, but doing ok. Ella is beautiful. I am so amazingly blessed. God is such an awesome God, I can’t believe He picked me to be the mom of such precious kids! I never knew how much fun it would be to have a little girl, I never knew I liked pink this much! I feel like I am a little kid again playing with my dolls, except this doll is by far the most beautiful thing I have ever seen!

By the way, my husband was really wonderful, he does take a lot of pictures, which at the time; I was not amusing to me, but I was very thankful for them once it was all over! He is a wonderful man, and is so in love with our little princess!