Welcome, Baby Julianne!

My new niece was born last week on Monday, March 22 - the day after Caroline's birthday! She weighed in at 8 lbs. 2 oz. She was born after a long labor, during which a nurse finally discovered that she was breech, which was why labor was progressing so very slowly! Perhaps if she had been head down, she would have shared a birthday with her cousin Caroline!

I took the girls to help out their Aunt Crystal this past Monday. We went and helped a bit around the house and with food preparation, and we brought them some supplies like a basket of snacks and some diapers. Baby Julianne is so tiny and sweet, such a sleepy little newborn, but an excellent and vigorous nurser - at only a few days old, her weight was already back close to her birth weight... just 3 ounces shy of it, in fact!

So, this post is just a bunch of "Aww, how sweet!" photos of Caroline and Cecilia with their new little niece!

Most precious picture ever!

Welcome to the world, Julianne Elizabeth Nadolski!!!

Kids Say the Darndest Things Friday

My brother and his wife had their first baby, Julianne, on Monday - yay!!! At one point, I was talking on the phone to my mom when they were still laboring in the hospital. Caroline wanted to talk to Gramma, so I gave her the phone and heard the following conversation:

Caroline: "Why hasn't Julianne been born yet?"

Gramma: "She's just not quite ready to come out yet."

Caroline: "Maybe she's shy."

Gramma: (amused) "Hmm, maybe."

Caroline: "Yeah... because she doesn't know anybody on the outside yet."

Another humorous thing Caroline said... she asked me "What was that green bottle that was on the table at our St. Patrick's Day party." "Sprite," I told her, and explained that it was sort of like Coke, and that she'd probably think it was "spicy." She said that at her Mother's Morning Out class they had served Sprite on St. Patrick's Day as well, and she tried a sip and didn't like it at all... then she said, "And some of the other kids liked it! Ivan and Myah, they even asked for more!"