Introducing my Baby - Maren Josephine

I know this is old news, but I had to make it official by putting it on the blog...I'd like to introduce you to Maren Josephine, born January 10th at 4:24pm, 7 pounds 14 ounces.  Her first name is pronounced Mar-in (Mar rhymes with Car), and her middle name is in honor of Papa Bob whose middle name was Joseph.

Mama had her regularly scheduled appointment on the 10th and the doctor was a little concerned with how much progress Mama had made and how fast she delivers her babies, so they sent her to L&D to be monitored.  After a couple hours of monitoring they decided the safest option was for her to be born.

I didn't know any of this was going on because I was at school, but at the end of the day my friend Anna's mama said that she was going to bring me to Gretchen's and that is when I knew, Maren was on her way!

It wasn't long after I got to Gretchen's that Daddy showed up and said we got to go meet her.  Ellen was so excited to meet her, but then when we got in the room she wasn't interested at all so I got to be the first to hold her.  After a few minutes Ellen warmed up and was so excited to hold baby Maren.

Mama wanted to make sure that Ellen and I would have lots of fun things to do at the hospital so she surprised us with some fun new things for our babies.  Ellen is too little to help take care of baby Maren, but she does a great job of taking care of her baby Josie.

Dr. Thorson was Mama's doctor, and she said that Mama did a great job.  It is a good thing that Mama was at the hospital when baby decided to come because it took less than 20 minutes once things got going.

Daddy has been doing a great job helping Mama, and keeping us busy so Mama can take care of baby.  He made sure we got to go to the hospital to visit our new baby a couple times, and has been playing a lot of games with us.  Too bad it is too cold to play outside very much.

Speaking of cold, Maren's first trip outside was pretty freezy, it was -10 degrees with -30 wind chills.  Thanks to a warm carseat and cozy blankets, she didn't even know that she had gone outside.

Baby Maren is pretty sweet.  She may only be 6 days old but she is a very good baby.

She does NOT like to be hungry and makes sure Mama knows when she is.  She is a little trickster though and makes Mama work pretty hard sometimes to feed her.  I think it is kinda funny because Maren will cry to tell Mama that she is hungry, and then when Mama is ready Maren will refuse to open her mouth, but if Mama puts the food away Maren will get REALLY mad.

Maren has been pretty sleepy, which Ellen isn't impressed with, but Mama promised that it won't be too long before Maren will be a lot more fun.  For now, we get to hold her and snuggle her.  She is starting to become more alert and loves to look around which makes holding her even more fun.

Have a great day everybody!
Linden