Annabelle Lyn is here!

After 41 weeks of pregnancy, 28 hours of labor (apparently Melissa has a high pain tolerance, as she went 14 hours until her first round of meds) and a c-section Annabelle Lyn Shafer is finally here!

 First official family photo

Family photo after some sleep.

She sleeps, eats, crys, and repeats very well.

Melissa has learned how to do many things one handed and Nick is starting to learn how to function with no sleep.

Annabelle, or Belle if we are sleep deprived and lazy, has crazy long fingers that have put the death grip on Melissa's hair, her IV, and everything else in reach. As you can see from the pictures Annabelle has a ton of blonde hair, thanks to all the heartburn she gave Melissa during pregnancy, seriously we should have bought stock in tums.

We are planned to be out of the hospital on Sunday afternoon, 96 hours in the hospital is long enough for  Melissa, the person who hates hospitals. As you can see she loves visitors. So far she hasn't spit up on anyone with out warning and only screams a few decibels louder than normal when visitors are around.

Grandma Jami 

Grandpa Mike

Aunt Steph

 

Mommy enjoying a sleeping baby.

  

Daddy enjoying an awake baby.

In other kids news, Gizmo had surgery on her left knee again last week. We figured it was the most convenient inconvenient time to have it done. She is still quite precocious, the vet said she would have to have her cast re-wrapped once in the two weeks she is supposed to have the cast on, she has already had it re-wrapped 4 times. Thankfully our vet is really awesome and doesn't mind the two emergency calls that we have made to her late at night. Also super thankful that Mike, Melissa's dad and Stephanie, Melissa's sister are in town. They spend most of the day at the hospital spending time with Annabelle and then go home and take care of the pups.

Princess Annabelle has requested some more attention, so we must oblige!