Clearing out the cobwebs

Well as of March 26 I was negative 5 months pregnant.

Maelyn Leigh made her way into the world at 3:02 p.m. on Tuesday, October 26. I'll spare you the details, but labor lasted for about 10 hours, 2 of that being pushing... with an epidural. She was 8 pounds and 6 ounces, 21.5 inches long, had a surprising shock of jet-black hair and knew just what to do when it came to eating.

Maelyn at 5 days old.

She still knows what do at mealtime, and although the hair is getting blonder by the day there's still a lot of it, save of course for the "back is best" bald spot. As of now she's learning to sit up and expanding her culinary interests to sweet potato and rice cereal - carrots debuting next week.

This is quite a succinct update considering how much time I've skipped, but there it is. The squirrel is here, happy and healthy. And as suspected, completely changing my life and my outlook on it.

It's been requested by people I can count on 2 hands that I keep blogging. So here I am to announce that I will keep blogging... somewhere else. By that I mean under some other name, to be announced later. So stay tuned! I'll have the name squared away by Wednesday.

Maelyn at 5 months old.