Our beautiful Girls

Our Big Girl

Our Baby Girl

Our Girls

Happy Hannah

Bella Donna

Just perfect...

We praise and thank our Lord for our two blessed and beautiful girls!

At Home

Having a new baby at home has been so much fun! Hannah has been such an easy addition- filling our home and hearts, but also allowing our "normal" routine to continue. She is a really good baby, sleeps so well, and has slotted right in. As expected, Donna has been the best big sister ever, a real mommy's little helper. She's even matured more since Hannah's been home, getting on with her own thing and sleeping through the whole night-such a good girl!!

Bath time is a very exciting time. Donna loves to wash Hannah's hair with every item of her tea set! And Hannah loves to bath-just to float in the water and kick off from the sides of the bath is probably the favourite part of her day! Unfortunately, it is followed by the worst part of her day-the time from taking her out the water to when she's all dressed is spent screaming-it's horrible, but it's over really soon! If she didn't love the actual bath so much-I probably would skip bathing altogether!

Flowers from Granma-a new "pot garden" for the balcony!

Donna loves to play with her new live-in friend! Here they're in her tent-something Donna said months ago that she wanted to do when Hannah "came out". I'm sure there will be many more fun times in there!

At the Hospital

AND THEN WE WERE FOUR...

The birth of our dear baby was a blessed one!

After what was supposed to be a routine check-up at "one day post due-date", I was admitted into hospital because the doc was not happy with Hannah's heart rate pattern on the CTG. I was not prepared to say the least(!!), and went in to give birth without my carefully packed hospital and labour bag-that has been packed since November (thanx to Cand!)! I was induced at 4pm, and by about 6pm started feeling the contractions, ever so gently! At 9pm I phoned to let Ryan know he should make his way to the hospital, as quickly but as safely as possible! Once Ryan arrived, Hannah was well on her way-born about 45 minutes later!!

I was so acutely aware of our great Lord through out the whole birth. I was awestruck and grateful for the immense pain He went through to bring me life, that the pain I was going through to bring my daughter to this life (almost!) seemed insignificant. But it was when I held Hannah for the first time that I was just overwhelmed by His amazing goodness and felt so unbelievably blessed for this undeserved, but so much appreciated gift!

Our God is so Good!!

But the blessed moments just continued! The look of shear amazement and contained excitement on Donna's face when she came to see her baby sister for the first time the next morning, was just priceless, a moment I hope I never forget! It was if she wanted to laugh, cry, run and jump for joy, just stand and stare-all at the same time. She just wanted to hold Hannah (which she says so sweetly!) and stroke her hair, kiss her forehead and of course, hold her hand. It was so sad that night when they had to go home and Donna realised we weren't going with. She cried so much-apparently it carried on for most of the way home, shame man!

But we all went home together the very next day, and that is were the blessings just continued...

Donna's first minutes with Hannah