There's a new girl in town!

I suppose I've been on hiatus long enough.  Is anyone still out there?

On January 25, 2013 at 6:47am, Makenzie Olivia Trull was born!  She was 5lbs and 14 oz and was 19 inches long.  I had previously reported to everyone that she was 20 inches long, because that's what I had been told.  Brittany had taken her for her 2 week appointment yesterday and said that she was now 6lbs and 9oz and 19 1/2 inches long.  I gasped and said, "She shrunk?!"  Brittany (looking at me like I'm a crazy lady) says, "What? She was 19 inches when she was born, Mom." 

I could have sworn I was told 20 inches, but then, I was sleep deprived.  Potato, potahto.

This is the picture that made me cry.

That look on Brittany's face as she is looking over at her daughter just kills me.  So much has brought us to this point in our lives.  The two of them looking at each other.  Oh. 

Look how tiny this gal is in her car seat!  We had a brief moment of panic in the hospital when the nurse asked the Trulls if they had a carseat.  Of course they did.  The nurse then said that most infant car seats were rated for an infant 7lbs and over.  We needed to have one rated for 5lbs.  Did we have to go out and buy a new carseat?  I ran home and checked over the owners manual and found that yes, indeed, the one they had chosen was rated at 5lbs and up. Phew!

Look at that sweet angelic face, will you?  She's got strawberry blonde hair and what looks to be like she'll have blue eyes.  She's got long piano playing fingers, and she smells so heavenly.  I tease Brittany and Nate that they better make sure she still has all her parts after I've held her to make sure I didn't bite anything cute off!  I could just eat her up!

And then there is our beautiful Miss Makayla.  She couldn't wait to meet her cousin.  Now, most two year olds would get this close to an infant and push them away.  Not this girl.  She came to the hospital and got to hold her and she never wanted to let her go.  She would ask us to get her a blanket, give me her bottle, give me her "ginkie".  She is a little mother hen!!  She was so disappointed when she got a little diaper and the wipes out of the isolette drawer and wasn't allowed to change her.  It's HER Baby Kenzie.

This is my little Mak attack.  Makayla and Makenzie.  She will go by Kenzie.  Makayla is all about this girl. 

I love my little granddaughters so much, I think my heart just may explode.