It's a Girl!!

Piper Rose Carnell was born at 10:54pm on Saturday, October 13. She weighed in at 9 Ib 2 oz, and 20.5 inches long. (Almost exactly the same size as Jason, 10 oz smaller than Jonah, and 2 Ib heavier than Mary). Everything is going well, and I look for a gigantic peice of wood to knock every time I comment on her placid nature. I'm sure fate will hear me, and remember that Carnell babies are anything but placid. LOL

The kids adore her. Jason sits and holds her for hours, just gazing at her. He told me yesterday that he loves her more than anything: more than his toys, and even more than his TMNT video game. THAT is a lot of love. Mary hated her name at first, and was a little obnoxious about it, but her behaviour is settling down, and she's completely enamoured with her baby sister. Jonah didn't notice her existence for the first two days, but held her for the first time yesterday. Now he's a bit possesive, which makes breastfeeding difficult, when you have a two-year-old constantly trying to pull her off your lap!!

Chris is completely smitten with our new "Princess Squeak" as she's been nicknamed. It's fun to watch daddies with their baby girls.

That's all here folks!

A quiet Thanksgiving.

My family went to my sister's house for Thanksgiving this year, so we were on our own at home. It has been really quiet, and restful. Although the baby didn't come this weekend, I wouldn't have been able to make the trip to Quill Lake very succesfully. Even driving to Climax for mass yesterday had my back in spasms.

I was going to do a "chicken dinner" yesterday, but Chris wanted to go to Shaunavon for brunch, so we did that, and had leftovers for supper. Kind of unconventional, but I DID make pumpkin pie for dessert. I think Jason was disappointed that we didn't have turkey and trimmings, as they've been learning about Thanksgiving at school, and I was told that Thanksgiving ranks right up there with Christmas and his birthday, as far as favourite holidays go. Next year, I guess. :)

I'm 38 weeks tomorrow, and it's within the vicinity of 38 weeks that both Jason and Jonah came. Mary made it almost to 40, so we'll see what happens in the next little while.