Giles ,'Chosen'
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xpost w/Bitches:
Just got off the phone with Hec, and little Matilda is doing fine. She had an upper GI series done this morning, which came back completely normal, so the docs suspect she just swallowed some gunk in utero. She should be released from the NICU at 3 this afternoon.
As for JZ, she's showered and caffeinated and feeling like, and I quote, "the happiest girl in the world."
Slooooooooooooooowly catching up after ten days of darkness. In the meantime:
Pictures from Paris and London (titles/descriptions TK)
Videos from Paris and London (taken with digital still cameras, very very short!)
Could y'all please send some of the patented ~ma towards the Memphis area today? My mom is taking my dad to meet with a doctor and to tell my dad that they need to move him to a nursing home. It really is the best move for everyone, but my mom is feeling guilty and I know my dad isn't going to take it well. Thanks.
Not the cutest picture of her, since she's squashed, bruised, possibly sneering and definitely squinting (I swear I've got cuter pictures in my phone), but you can see her adorable, chubby cheeks, and the always interesting Mom on morphine effect.
JZ and Matilda. About an hour and half old.
I wish to verify the fact that Matilda is completely gorgeous.
Beautiful, beautiful child. She slept in my arms until her pede showed up to check her out, and she reacts to mother's milk as if it were primo michuocan pot: total stoner glaze.
She looks uncannily like her mum. There was a moment though, where she twisted her face up and looked exactly like her brother.
So the Tildababy is real, and just lovely beyond words.
And JZ rocks. But that needed no verification.
Team Zmayhem is home from the hospital.
Matilda checked out fine. We need to augment breastfeeding until JZ's milk comes all the way in. We are getting some from pumping, but we're awaiting the Big Letdown.
Taking Ple's advice I bought a Pre sized warm footie pajama (green stripes, frog logo), and that's what she's wearing now. Emmett keeps swirling around them asking when he can hold the baby. Baby's happy and snuzzling.
I'm still moving furniture, vacuuming and washing dishes.
Matilda's Papiou (Grandfather) stopped by and took more pictures so I should have those by tomorrow.
Fred Pete, Hubs, Jars and I had fortuitous mini-F2F in Dublin last night!
The gang's all here (from the left, Jars, Hubs, Fred, moi).
Jars, me, and Jon. The classic Buffista love triangle.
I have a job! They want me to start on Monday. Woo!
