Out of the blue Emily drew her first humanoid-like creatures today. I'm not sure if she's been watching too much Veggie Tales or secretly practicing in her room, but with careful and deliberate construction, she rendered her first recognizable forms: Daddy, Mommy and Emily. She presented them to us quite proudly. Sadly, Katrina was not deemed worthy of being imortalized in art. Check them out.
I hope everyone had a happy and meaningful Easter. We had a good Easter. Marilyn, Lisa's mom, was still in town so she spent Easter with us.
On Saturday, we dyed easter eggs and had an egg hunt with other families from our church. On Easter Sunday we went to church in the morning came home and rested and had our Easter meal in the late afternoon. We cooked up some ham, shrimp cocktail, sweet potatoes, scalloped potatoes, green beans, salad and dinner rolls. It was a great meal.
I was joking with Lisa that ham and shrimp are the perfect food choices for Easter. After all, it's because Jesus redeemed us and fulfilled the Law that we are not held to the ceremonial food laws of the Old Testament. And Peter's vision in Acts 10 reminds us what God deems clean is clean. So, being sanctified by Christ, and free in him, we can celebrate what Christ did by enjoying previously "unclean" foods. :-D
The last few days have gone by fast. So, here's a recap.
Lisa and I went into Albany General Hospital at 7:30 AM for an induction. Lisa was able to get up and walk around for most of the morning until they wanted her to lie down for monitoring at 11:00 AM. Katrina was being a little uncooperative by having a slightly erratic heart rate. After Lisa found a good position, the heart rate stabilized. At 11:30 the contractions really kicked in, and by 12:00 Lisa was asking "where's my mom?"
Marilyn, Lisa's mom, had stayed home with Emily in the morning so Emily didn't have to get up early. Apparently Marilyn had some trouble getting Emily out the door, so Marilyn and Emily finally showed up around 12:20. We passed Emily off to Becky Hiller (who offered to watch Emily), and things really got moving. When the doctor came to check things out at 12:50 she realized she better get her scrubs on right away. Then viola! Katrina was born at 13:03.
Lisa and Katrina are doing very well. Everything has gone quite smoothly. We left the hospital Thursday evening after our celebration dinner (see day one photos.) We had a number of visitors from Lisa's former work (the labor and delivery floor where we had the baby) and her current work (the pediatricians offices across the street.) After crying practically non-stop the first day, Katrina has settled into a nice groove. Katrina isn't too fussy except when she's hungry.
My cousin Brooke and her husband Ryan are up visiting us for the weekend. It's been good to see them and it's been great hanging out with them. This morning we went on Oregon-style walk that featured both sunshine and rain. (Katrina stayed home with Marilyn.) Overall, we are relaxing and keeping things low-key.
I'll keep posting photos in our photo gallery. I'm also adding little video clips in with the photos now too.