Saturday, September 19, 2009

Three days and counting:

On September 16th, 2009 at 8:22 PM Gryffin Fisher Lawrence (6 pounds, 14 ounces) entered a much brighter, colder, scarier world than Mama Lawrence had painstakingly provided for 8 ½ months. His little (at 5 pounds, 15 ounces) sister, Zailey Amalyn Lawrence, followed suit two minutes later. Mama Lawrence is recovering beautifully (ahead of schedule as always) from the c-section (more to come on that decision later). Daddy Lawrence is learning how to care for both mama and babies Lawrence post ejection button.

The hospital has been like a saloon with revolving doors, nurse in-nurse out, doctor in-doctor out… It is hard to rest when you’re asked questions every few minutes. But we’re very thankful because the staff has been great. Going home tomorrow will be a shock to the system (where did the staff go?!).

Zailey is a pretty little girl. She gets so many compliments on how pretty she is. It’s making us wonder how ugly we are because everyone seems so shocked we had such a pretty girl. Gryffin is a bruiser of a boy. He has a nice block-head. They are both eating and sleeping, as babies are prone to.

Going home tomorrow will be daunting. First there is the whole hospital checkout circus, which is triple, with mom, baby and other baby. That double stroller sure will come in handy! Once we get home, we have the challenge of introducing the dogs to the kids (or maybe the other way around). Either way someone (Stu) is going to feel bummed that mom and dad brought home yet another untrained animal.

And of course, here is the picture montage:

Jesse with Zailey

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Kristin with Gryffin

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Kristin with Zailey

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Jesse formula feeding Zailey wth Gryffin sleeping behind him. We’ve had to supplement with formula because their weights dropped a little too quickly and my milk hasn’t come in yet…

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Sleeping Gryffin

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Sleeping Zailey, here her hat is almost off, a constant battle with her already

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And a sequence of side-by-side shots (Zailey is on the left and Gryffin is on the right)

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6 comments:

Meyer-Dombard said...

goodness! those are some sweet little monkeys you have there! they're both just gorgeous and i think they both look like you guys. you look like you're both trooping along. i hope you get a little more peace and quiet at home ;)

Blandix said...

Yay! They are so sweet and cute! Glad things are going well at the hospital and hope it all goes well when you get home!

cari c said...

So cute! C

cari c said...

OK - not sure what happened to the rest of hte message... Congrats to you all and hope the going home goes OK! It is scary, I agree - I have felt totallly unqualified both times to take home such a tiny, delicate creature - let alone two!!

Unknown said...

Congratulations guys! You look like pros already. We had to supplement with Ella in the beginning, too. Hope things are going well at home - and don't despair, things will get easier.

Carol said...

Congratulations on those beautiful little babies =) Kristin, you look every bit the part of radiant new mom... and Jesse the proud Papa. Miss you guys and wish you and the rapidly growing family all the best!