Saturday, February 26, 2011

Welcome to the World!

Tuesday morning, 2-22 at 8:02, we became parents of another beautiful baby girl. Kinsley was exactly as "they" say she should be at just over 7.5 pounds and almost 20 inches. She has a face that looks just like Myla some times and a head full of dark-ish hair. She did really well all our days (days?!) at the hospital with eating and maintaining her temperature and we came home on Friday to our first night without any nurses to help. And I think we did okay.

Myla came to the hospital every day and was very excited to see her baby sister. It took a couple of days before she really wanted to get close to her, but now she loves to stand over her chair and stroke her gently on the head. Today in fact, she gave Kinsley her first kiss from big sister. She told us "Daddy, how about you and mommy go upstairs and sleep in your bed and I will take care of baby Kinsley, how 'bout that?" Tempting...

We had a check in with the doctor and she's lost just a little bit of weight, but we hear all babies do that. He thought she looked great and kept remarking what a different baby she must be compared to the first. Well sure, aren't all babies different? And even though we try not to think about the differences or compare, we know they are there. But we also know that Kinsley has an awesome big sister who is going to look out for her. We can tell by the way she stops mid run to look at her and how this morning after just getting out of bed, she wanted to know where the baby was. Yep, Myla loves being a big sister. And as far as we can tell, Kinsley loves being a little sister.

3 comments:

Stephanie said...

CONGRATULATIONS!!!! She's beautiful, and I love her name. So happy for an uneventful hospital stay, too. Have fun with her and give her a cuddle from Steph!

Cole and Mindy Smith said...

YEAH YEAH YEAH! i am SO glad to hear that she is here safe and sound. Welcome to the world baby Kinsley! You came to a wonderful family...lucky girl!

Kathleen said...

:) Okay, Skype time, I'm feeling it! Let me know when you're game ;)