Luca, Julie and Family

Introducing Julie! (Sorry it's taken me 4 weeks to update this blog) Julie was born at 12:31 am Wednesday, October 12th, 2011 after only 3 hours of very intense labour. We are extactic to have a girl to complete our family! She came into the world at 9 pounds (4.1 kg) - Luca was 6 pounds 13 ounces (3 kg). Julie was born at 60 cm, 5 more than Luca was. Julie was one week late and Luca was 8 days early. Guess those two extra weeks Julie had added up to over 2 pounds extra! A home birth was amazing. Great to be in our own environment and I loved taking a shower right after! Felt like myself again! The midwives and my friend/doula Steph cleaned everything up and an hour after the birth our house was back to normal. Luca went to bed on Tuesday night and woke up Wednesday morning to have a new little sister!

Julie is a pretty easy baby. When she's upset though, she'll let you know! She has a wonderful assortment of noises - snorts and dolphin-like noises that she makes. She is much stronger than Luca was and it was days before we could pry her hands away from her face. She likes to be upright when awake where she can see what's going on and sleeps on her tummy like Luca.

Luca is an amazing big brother. He loves Julie dearly as you can see in some of the pictures. He introduces our friends to his baby and especially likes to hold her and take baths with her. He's noisy but gentle. He loves puzzles and trains of course, and Lightning McQueen and Mater.

Will try to add smaller batches of pictures more often in the future! I have little time these days to blog though! We have managed to take far fewer pictures of Julie than we did of Luca and mostly on our phones so the quality might be compromised. We are hoping to get a new camera soon. Been bad a getting video too. Julie's not awake often enough to get good footage these days!

About 9 hours old.

Julie's birthday!

Day 2

Day 3 and the first day we let Luca hold Julie. Hope you can see his excitement. He is a wonderful big brother.

Oct 21st

Oct 22nd

Oct 24th

Oct 27th, 2 weeks 1 day

Oct 28th

Halloween! These photos don't do much justice to how cute Luca was! He was (of course) Thomas the Train and it turns out, his costume did not do stairs at all! Fab had to carry him up and down each flight! We trick or treated for about 2 blocks with a bunch of friends. It was great! Julie was happy in the snuggly with me.