Maylia Lucille Arrives...

We are very happy to announce that little Maylia has arrived healthy!! We are all overjoyed with the new arrival!! She is calm, sweet and beautiful!! The kids adore her and we feel very blessed to have another healthy baby!!

11/16/2008

6 lbs, 11 ounces

21.5 inches

I would have downloaded pictures sooner but we couldn't find the cord for the camera....let the confusion begin!!

That and a pipe burst under our house and we had 6 plumbers here the last two days and the entire front yard torn up!! Nothing like a restful welcome home from the hospital!!

In all seriousness, the transition has been perfect and I am already concocting number 4!! As a matter of fact, when P first held the baby, he said, 'Let's have another one tomorrow!' That's my boy - a chip off the old block wanting a lot of kids!!

Anxiously waiting for baby #3

As all of you blog readers know (since you are all close friends and family), we have loved the name Malia (Maylia being our spelling) since we were knocked up with P. Anyway, as thrilled as we are that Obama has won the election, we are a little frustrated that Malia's the name of one of his daughters. We are hearing it on the news, reading it in the paper, AGGGGHHHH!!

Anyway, after much thought (and with the arrival coming at any time), we decided we are going to stick to the name Maylia since it has been on our baby name list since 2004!! We love the name, have always loved the name and I have my old blog (dated 7/9/08) to prove we loved the name loooong before it stumbled into households via the media!! Hell, we loved the name looooong before most people even knew who Obama was....let alone his daughter!!

I reviewed the top girl names of 2007 just to make sure I am going to be fine with our baby girls name making the list for 2008 and after careful review, I am over it. I love all the names on the 2007 list and who the hell cares about the top baby name list?? Not something I give much thought when I hear the names of new babies!!

PLUS, since the name has been on our list for so long and we happen to be blessed with a new baby girl the same month Obama made history, seems meant to be in my book!!

Stay tuned for updates on the arrival of Maylia Lucille!!

Top 10 Names for 2007 (according to Social Security Administration)
Female names (And by the way, she still won't make the list for 2008 because of our spelling)

http://www.ssa.gov/OACT/babynames/
1
Emily
2
Isabella
3
Emma
4
Ava
5
Madison
6
Sophia
7
Olivia
8
Abigail
9
Hannah
10
Elizabeth

Should I be worried?

Today Nonie was showing A an animal picture book and came to the page that had a turkey. My mom asked her what it was and she replied, 'a turkey' and then she said, 'I eat turkey' (keep in mind it was a picture of a cute little turkey on a farm) and then she said, 'I eat turkey - but not the head!!!' Scary! VERY SCARY!!

DON'T FORGET TO VOTE!!

Just a friendly reminder to vote today!

A visit to the zoo...

We went to the zoo yesterday and the animals were so interactive, more so than in the past!! They were walking right up to the glass...a lion even roared right in the kids faces. Acting just like their daddy, they ran away from the glass and jumped into the stroller!! As much as the kids enjoyed themselves, I think I was enjoying the experience even more!! We even stopped off at the gift shop for the kids to get a prize. P picked a new book and A picked a new polar bear stuffed animal....could this possibly be her Elmo* the she will sleep with every night....stay tuned!!

* P has slept with an Elmo blankie every night since he was 4 months....A hasn't seemed to get too attached to anything just yet!!

A with her new little polar bear in the wee hours of today...