Welcome to the world little one

The first week of baby seems to go fast and slow. I'm learning new things and remembering things I'd forgotten from Rowan's early days. One thing is certain, we looooove our little girl and are beyond excited and happy that she's finally out of "hiding" :) We got a really cute bouquet when we were in the hospital from Katie's godmom. Daffodils are among my favorite spring flowers, this one seems to be heralding the arrival of our lil' miss.

Announcing with overwhelming joy and a beaming sense of happiness and pride
Katelyn Hanna Godsiff!

beauty eh?

I won't go into any "TMI" details but for those who are curious here's a bit of a summary of how it all went down:

Well, her due "date" was March 4th but obviously she was not keen on that. We waiting semi-patiently for about a week until my doctor scheduled an induction for Saturday the 13th. Obviously this was not meant to be. About 1:30AM on the 12th I felt the first strong contractions but not being able to time them to 5 minutes apart for an hour (the timing that labor and delivery usually asks you to wait for before calling and coming into the hospital) I decided to just take a warm shower and wait. After running out of hot water I got out and feeling light headed called into L & D to ask advice. They advised that we head in after judging by the sound of my voice that these were probably active labor contractions. That was about 3:15AM

I woke Logan up and told him we had to go. As we got ready the contractions became very strong and after a quick ride to the hospital we entered at the ER (approx arrival time was 3:45). I was wheeled upstairs unsure if I could walk all the way to the triage area for L & D. Just about the time I got onto a bed and started to be evaluated my water broke and I felt very strongly that I had to push. About two minutes and one and a half pushes later she was born. 3:56AM.

I felt shell shocked to say the least. I was prepared for a couple hours in the hospital and instead it was a matter of minutes. After getting settled in our mother baby suite, which amazingly we got to ourselves! I was able to rest and relax and just enjoy my sweet little girl.

After a little while Logan went home and rested himself before coming in with Hayden and Rowan to meet lil miss Katie.

Thank you Hayden for being our first family-of-four photographer!

The first day was uneventful. The boys were my only visitors due to many of my friends either being out of town or having little ones of their own with sniffles and coughs.

Here's another shot of the bouquet from Amy. Pretty cute.

The next morning I woke up to sunshine. It was a good day :)

Heading home! I think this photo really emphasizes the size difference between father and newborn daughter. I told him he looks like an ogre ;)

As you can see Katie is fitting in quite nicely around here :) Rowan is really good big brother. He loves her when she's awake, mostly ignores her when she's asleep, and likes to hug and kiss her.

Indeed she's a wonderful, adorable, sweet, and precious addition to our family. I'm a little nervous for Logan to start back at work and to be on my own with these two but I'm confident that I have the mom tools and skills to at least make it until lunchtime tomorrow ;) after that it's all grace.



Working together already ;) Today is my sister "Aunty" Krystle's 23rd birthday, Rowan wasn't completely happy to come in from playing with sticks outside for the photo but was a good sport (and was actually excited about sending birthday wishes). He even helped me with the signs. His lines were really light and hard to see on the computer. I figure it's the thought that counts :)


We love you Krystle, happy birthday again. And we love you Katie!! Happy first week of life!