Meet D-Dub-G, Our Newest Sanitarium Resident

 Meet:

Miss Daria Willow

6 pounds, 9 oz. and 18 inches long

Born Tuesday, 6-19-2012 at 11:13 am

Thankfully in the hospital, and not on the 509. Or on Martin Luther King Jr. Way in front of the hospital. And that is all I'm going to say about that until I get her birth story written.

I had Brianna's story almost done, and was planning on publishing it in a suitable increment after Keira's birth story. Then I got sick. AGAIN!!! Then I had to clean my house and finish up a few projects. Thank goodness I did all that. Then I gave birth. Apparently I cannot carry a child full term. Very annoying. So, my point with all that being that Brie's story is going to be published first, in the next few days, diapers and showers and laundry permitting, and meanwhile I'll start putting Daria's together. Then we'll get back to blogging as usual. :-)

But, despite a few hiccups along the way that landed her in the NICU for a few nights and in a regular hospital room a few nights more, all-in-all she is healthy, thank the Lord, and we are currently enjoying her very much and looking forward to when we're not desperately shoving food in her mouth in attempts to get her to gain weight, and when she's sleeping slightly less than 23 1/2 hours a day.

Her eyes are blue. I don't know if they'll stay this way, but it's fun to have a blue-eyed baby. Our other two came out with brown eyes, like their momma.

She is our only child that is not born on a Sunday. Tuesday's child is full of grace.

And, I should say too, that when we picked out her name we had no idea that there would be questions about how to pronounce it... we both had always liked it, and had only ever heard it pronounced one way. Apparently we have a knack for picking names that can be pronounced multiple ways, as watching people's mouths try to contort around "Keira" was, and still is sometimes, highly entertaining to us. And, Brianna, bless her heart, has to deal with people calling her Brie-Anna all the time instead of Brie-Ahna. So, Daria's name is pronounced DAR (as in jar) - eeee -uh. For those who want to know. :-)

Thanks to everyone for their prayers, comments and love through all this. And, especially thanks to my Instagram followers, who got blasted with approximately 90 million photos the last several days. I love that app. Most of my photos are from my phone, which I'm not hugely thrilled about, but carrying the camera around was one thing too much for my stressed out self there for a couple days. But, I'm thoroughly addicted to my phone, so that was doable.

So, we'll be back soon! Thankful for all our friends and family... and the prayers that went up for us through this time.

Every good and perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation, or shadow of turning. 

James 1:17