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 . . .