About a boy

Mearrik was born on September 11th.  He came about 3 and a half weeks early.  Hope's labour and delivery was quick and relatively uneventful - she felt her first pains around 10 am, was admitted to hospital around 1:30 pm and baby was born at 8:25 pm.

We got to see him briefly about half an hour after his birth and then he had to go to NICU for observation.  Partly because they wanted to observe for Dandy-Walker related issues and partly because he was a bit early.  He ended up staying there a little over a week - the longest week of my life!  Even though we went down every day to McMaster, only Kirk and Hope were allowed into the NICU to see him.  This was for the protection of the other babies who were very sick and could not risk the chance of germs coming in.

Now he is home and doing awesome!  I am so proud of Hope - she is a natural little mother.  Kirk too - he's always been good with little ones and he seems very at ease with his son.

I could look at that cute little fellow all day long :)

Today Mearrik is going to the doctor's for his first well-baby visit. I'm sure the doctor will be impressed.

It is a bit weird, your kids having kids.  I am really trying not to be one of those buttinski mothers but it's going to be hard for me.  Not because the kids are doing things wrong - I'm just a bossy cow by nature :)  so this is gonna be a challenge for me.  Long ago, when our kids were still little and this wasn't even a concern, Ken and I worked out a prearranged signal - the "STAND DOWN" signal.  It is a very embarrassing signal.  So I'm doing my best not to give him cause to use it.  It's quite motivating< actually.