Welcome Emmaline!

Emmaline Alice Snow was born on Friday Feb. 6th at 7:41 pm. She weighed 8 lbs. 13 oz. and was 20 3/4 inches long.

After a long and painful labor, we are happy to finally have Emma here!

I went into the hospital to be induced at 39 weeks. Since Isaac was also induced and everything went like clockwork, I was expecting everything to go smoothly with Emma. We arrived at 7:30 am and they started pitocin. By 6:00 that night, I was only dilated to a 5! Since this was my longest labor yet, I was getting very discouraged. And to make matters worse, the epidural only worked on half of my body.

Soon, the anesthesiologist came back in to redo the epidural. As soon as he put it in, I was dilated to a 10 and ready to push. The epidural never did take effect. Emma ended up being posterior (face up instead of face down) and her little hand was also up by her head. The back labor was excruciating, but luckily she came quickly after that!

We are so happy to have her! She has been such a wonderful baby so far and we hope she keeps it up! Cora, Abby and Isaac are in love with their little sister and always begging to hold her. CJ has been incredibly helpful driving kids here and there, packing lunches, doing bedtimes and naptimes etc. I have been able to rest and focus on little Emma. I love you CJ!!!

The true test will be next week when CJ is back at work.

Welcome to the world Emma!

Paris by night

Cora, Abby and I kicked off the new year with a visit to Paris. We went on one of those chartered tours with the guide and the bus and what not. That's right we were those people starring wide-eyed out the window on a foreign land. Paris at night is astoundingly beautiful. I highly recommend it. Remember to bring more jackets than I did, because it was freakin' freezing.

I should also mention the awesome ferry ride across the channel. We left from Dover, which was cool, because it has white cliffs. So, for those of you who haven't had the pleasure of an English Channel crossing it can be a little bumpy. The boat has a food court in it where you can get all sorts of breakfast meats, especially the really dense ones, like english sausages. Well, I ate a belly full of english breakfast meats just before the ship left the harbor for open sea and gale force winds. We where then buffeted by the waves for a full hour. I spent the whole hour gripping a barf bag and humming to myself. The trip back was just as fun.