Penelope Eve

Does it make me a busy or a bad mother that is has taken 13 days for me to upload photos and video of our new little daughter onto the blog site?? I'll pick the 'busy' option (plus a bit of tiredness and a bit of awestruckness at how cute she is!)

So . . .

Penelope Eve Matthews came into the world on Monday 12 January at 3.23pm. Without giving you all the gory details in the readers digest version, my waters broke Sunday night, they induced us Monday morning coz contractions hadn't started yet, at 2.30pm the doctor was talking of caesering (is that even a word?) us and an hour later she was delivered naturally with the cord around her neck 3 times!

Her stats were:
Weight - 6lb 7oz (2.93kg)
Length - 48cm

She is just a little natural at everything though, thankfully she read all the books before she came out! She latches on and feeds great, sleeps well through the night (only waking once, maybe twice) and is so content and easy to please. We love her and have decided to keep her!

But enough of details, I'm sure you are all looking forward to photos and video so here they are:

Within an hour of being delivered she is already posing for the camera and so alert:
Daddy and Poppy poking tongues out at each other:
Fun time on the tummy:

Hanging out with a very proud Nona:
We think this hat might be a little bit big for her. Reminds us of Dr Seuss though:
The most comfortable burping position:

Nap time with Daddy:
Hanging out with Dominic at church the first Sunday (he was born 10 hours after Poppy and look at the size difference! . . . Poppy is the one on the left):

Bath time:
Mummy and daughter:
She reminds me of a Tiki here with her tounge poking out:
And of course a video of her on her new butterfly mat!


You can see more of her here . . .

DUE DATE . . .TODAY

So baby Tahi is due today and currently showing no signs of wanting to be on time. Rob is back at work and I'm sitting at home waiting impatiently.

Today I had my friend Bonnie come around and take some photos of the bump before the bump disappears and here are the results of her effort:






On another note, we had a fantastic Christmas up at Robs Aunty and Uncles acerage at Crows Nest. Mum was over from NZ so she got to hang out with us, do a bit of clay bird shooting, crack a whip or two and have a ride on the 4-wheel motorbike. We took her home via Toowoomba and had a lovely lunch up at Picnic point as well.

New Years was a quiet one. We went to Dave and Jo's, had a swim, BBQ and then sat around the brazier chatting until the clock struck midnight. We were in bed by 1am. It was a lovely evening though.

Other than that we are all well. Just waiting for Tahi to turn up. The room is all organised except for the feeding chair which I have almost finished re-upholstering (if you could call it that). It is meant to be this afternoons project that I would really like to get done!