It's a Golden Life

It's been a whole week since a our little girl arrived. The time seemed to fly by this week. We came home on Sunday. Donovan started his new job on Monday. Donovan's family arrived on Friday and left yesterday! It seemed strange to be home all week! Chi and Haly are doing really well. He is starting to realize that this is our baby-we get to keep her. He loves holding her and kissing her, right on the lips. He's very sweet to her and makes sure she has her blankie. He has a weakness though-he is a red handed binky stealer. We've been trying to use a binky to soothe her when she gets fussy and Malachi doesn't care if it is pink, with flowers or even says "precious". He's not biased and doesn't care what it looks like-if it's a binky, he'll take it! Other than that, he's been doing very well. We've been very careful to pay attention when he needs someone, or when he just needs some loving. Haly is very sweet! She sleeps all the time! ...

So, some unexpected experiences this weekend! I went to my 38 week check up on Wednesday. He said we were about 4.5 centimeters and 80% effaced. I was prepared to go another 2 weeks, expecting what I did with Malachi. He didn't come until I was 4o weeks! Well, Thursday rolls around and I start feeling "strange". I was having pretty regular contractions every 7-12 minutes. Some felt crampy, and I was sure this was it. We decided to head to the hospital. I was going to wait until Donovan was off work at Youth Bridge at 10pm, but around 6:30 I told him that we may need to go a little sooner. So, he was able to get off work and meet me. We took Chi and his brother and sister to our house, where the Rambos very graciously watched them for us. I grabbed a tentative overnight bag with a change of clothes, toothbrush, hairbrush, deodorant and a couple outfits for the baby, "just in case". We went into the ER and they took us right up to Labor and Delivery. Before we kne...