Evelyn Pearl

Our beautiful girl is finally here! I guess she got scared out by the thought of the looming induction and she decided she'd rather come on her own. :-) It was an interesting labor experience but I'll spare you the details, since it's probably less interesting to you than it is to me. Suffice it to say, officially the labor was two hours and 16 minutes long with about 5 minutes of pushing and it was what I'd consider to be my easiest labor of the six. That doesn't mean I want to do it again though. :-P

Evelyn and I are both doing well. I lost a lot of blood, which is fairly typical for someone having their sixth baby. Initially I also had issues with very low blood pressure and couldn't get up without passing out, which was a bit of a concern. I don't feel too bad now, but we'll see what the next few days hold. I'd appreciate prayers for me over the next two weeks as historically the first two weeks postpartum have been very difficult for me.

Evelyn is a sweet, sweet baby. She's still very sleepy, of course, so it's hard to tell you much about her personality just yet. Did you see the hair?? What a surprise that was. We've never had a baby with so much, and such dark, hair. She's gorgeous though, I'm so proud of her. :-)

The other kiddos are doing really well. They had a lot of fun at their friends' house and with various cousins and their Mammam while we were away. In fact, at first I think they were more excited about visiting their friends than they were the new baby. :-) Now that we're home, they are all in love with Evelyn. Our next youngest, Seth, is coping well with the transition from baby to older brother. He has shown very little evidence of jealousy and he's warming up to Evelyn very well.

Now let me tell you about Larry. You all should be so proud of him. He's been really wonderful to me throughout this whole pregnancy, birth and recovery thing. He takes really good care of me and is always aware of how I'm doing emotionally and physically. I feel very safe and secure knowing that he is keeping a close eye on me. I'm so grateful for him. He's also a really great Dad and it makes me so happy to see the joy in his eyes when he holds his newborn daughter. It's really a beautiful thing.

I'll leave you with just a couple of pics, although you've probably seen these ones already. We're just not that good at the photo-taking thing. I'll try harder though, I promise. ;-)




We love you all and thank you for your prayers and thoughts. :-)