Awkward turtle...

....ahem....uh, hi.

So, uh...I guess it's been...well, a while. Right? Yeah.

So, hmmm...well, let's see. What's new, right? Well...um...I have a beard now. Oh, and we moved. Oh, and we have a new baby girl named Ava.

So, I guess you could say things have changed....a bit.

In fact, things are SO new, that I don't have a clue where to start. But, I am. Starting, that is. So, here goes.

It's summer time. Bibi and I have created a schedule where I work in the mornings, and she works in the afternoons. It's been great. We got a Friends of the Zoo pass, which has enabled us to visit the zoo whenever we want to, which is GREAT. (I recommend it, if you have the means.)

Oh, all right. I'll talk about our little biter, Ava.

Back in December...well, a year and a half ago, December, we found out we were expecting. We agreed to try the whole "homebirth" thing again, and it was awesome. Our midwife was amazing, and she was exactly who we needed to have.

I feel so scattered...it's almost like i haven't posted in a while.

So, I'm skipping ahead, past the whole "moving while extremely pregnant" thing to the end. Or, at least, near the end. Because Grace was two weeks early (as you recall, we found out she was breech at just over two weeks before her due date, and this led to a c-section at the hospital. As opposed to a c-section at home? Apparently I like to state the obvious.) we were somewhat expecting Ava to be early, too. Bibi's due date was August 18, 2009, and we just sort of started expecting things to happen, oh, about the last week in July. (Or a little before that.) I went back to work at the school around August 11th, still expecting this little bundle to appear any day now. The school year started August 17th, and I had basically fully expected to miss the first two weeks of school. When labor day rolled around, and we were still getting NOTHING, we were kind of flabbergasted.

We were not at all expecting that we would wait three and a half FULL weeks past the due date, to September 11th, 2009. Wild, no?

So, around 1AM, September 11th, Bibi's water broke. When we looked at the fluid, it looked like it was kind of dark. Like there was meconium in the water. We freaked. We immediately called our midwife, and she told us that that was not a good sign, and that we needed to clarify how dark. To us, it was pretty dark. So, she told us we needed to get to the hospital immediately. Like, five minutes ago. We called my in-laws, they came over to get Gracie and our dog, and Bibi, my mother-in-law, and I went to the hospital. We checked in (kind of) and were taken to triage, where they inspected Bibi a little more closely. Turns out, it wasn't that dark, and they were not too worried about it.

So, we high tailed it out of there (a little eensy bit against medical advice) and started for home. We had just started walking toward the car, when the contractions hit full tilt. Bibi was unable to talk through them. I called our midwife. She told us she would meet us at home.

We got home around 6am, and Ava was born at 9:45 that morning. Tho whole process took just less than 8 hours. Sheesh. My heart beats fast just thinking about it, and it was almost ten months ago.

So, my beautiful little girl is amazing, and the love of my life. (Just like Gracie, and Bibi.)

Here's a picture...