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May 20, 2009 - 8lbs 4.5oz - 20.5cm
We are all finally home and settling in at the Markelz household! I’m typing this with one hand while feeding June – I forgot how many things I can do one-handed!
June decided Wednesday would be the day. I started having contractions around 2am, and by 5am it was time to wake up Trapper and tell him this was the real deal. Our wonderful neighbor, Beth, came over to watch Hannah and Lucy, and by 7am we were in the car fighting rush hour traffic to the hospital. We laughed how everyone around us was on his or her regular trip to work – sipping coffee, listening to the news – while we were about to have a baby!
The day unfolded pretty normally. It’s so much more calm the 3rd time around. The pushing was definitely hardest this time though – and we soon found out why: June was 8lbs 4.5oz! Our biggest baby by far!
The next two days were boring for me and hectic for everyone else. I sat in the hospital resting, catching brief moments of alertness from sleepy June amongst hours of bad daytime TV. Trapper ran back and forth visiting me, taking care of the girls, and handling the house. We are SO very lucky to have such wonderful neighbors and friends to spend time with Hannah and Lucy while we took care of June.
June and I came home on Friday and the girls were so excited. Hannah keeps saying, “She’s SO cute!” over and over again. She’s also a little annoyed that her arrival has messed up our usual routines. It will be nice for her when preschool starts up again on Wednesday and she can have some time to do things she likes to do. Lucy is a very loving big sister. She shows great concern when June is crying and runs to say hello to her over and over again all day. It’s a little challenging to keep Lucy from poking her eyes or being too rough, but she’s learning.
And little June-Bug? She’s a pretty good baby so far! Lots of sleeping, with more alert time each day. She likes sleeping on mom or dad’s chest and loves our trips in the stroller. It will be so fun to see her little personality emerge. For now, she’s a little warm bundle sleeping in the corner. Which is fine by us, because we’re tired!
Waiting backstage at her recital.
Trapper and I attended Hannah’s dance recital yesterday. It was an hour and a half of little four, five, and six year olds prancing about on a huge stage – with some pretty comic results. Each performance had the usual confusion: one kid directing another where to go, another just standing there staring at the audience. There were a couple of really funny kids who just rocked out to their own routine while their class dutifully plied and pirouetted. Hannah’s group was about half way through and they did a great job – even managed the tricky “two choo-choo’s” midsection where they were to line up in two trains. This had become a problem when they were all dressed up in the same costume – no one could find their partner!
Hannah was completely unflustered by being on stage – she looked perfectly comfortable. And she was so very excited to get her dance medal afterward. I don’t know if she will choose to do ballet again next year – she’s expressed interest in gymnastics, soccer, and karate and we’re pretty set on just one activity per school year. But she definitely loved ballet class and the performance. She sure feels like a big kid now!
Still waiting on Baby June. Each night I have contractions and wonder if this will be the day, but then they fade away when I go to sleep. I’m now within a week of my due date (the 25th) so it can truly be any day now. And I’ve run out of projects to do around the house – so I’m ready!
Hannah had her dress rehearsal for her ballet recital this morning. This is the only performance we could tape. It was pretty hilarious to watch. See for yourself!
We put the finishing touches on the nursery this morning. While we had pretty much everything we needed, we still had to find it all, clean it all, and put it all together. Plus, we had never really decorated this room since we found out we were pregnant not long after we moved here. I made the paper mobile and wall decorations – a project I had been meaning to do for a long time.
The girls are excited. Lucy points to the items in the room and says “June” – but we know she really has no idea what that means. Hannah’s going to be a much bigger help this time around, I’m sure. I’ve been having contractions all week, but nothing regular yet. I remember being similarly uncomfortable with Lucy. Went to the doctor yesterday – they said probably sometime in the next week and a half, judging by the fact that both other girls came a week early. That’s fine by me – I’m very done with being pregnant.
We just spent a nice long morning at the park – Hannah spends the entire time on the swings (she’s learned to pump by herself) and Lucy is devoted to the slide which she goes down “on belly!” She’s quite the daredevil and we have to make sure she doesn’t take a jump off the highest platforms. But it’s pretty darn cute when the two of them do the giant slide over and over again holding hands. We are quite the spectacle these days – two busy girls, a very big mom, and a dad toting a very big coffee.
I’m off to be spoiled for the evening. Trapp is putting me up in a hotel for the night as a Mother’s Day gift. Sleep, no children, and my Kindle….what could be better? Just hope June doesn’t decide tonight’s the night!
