Sunday's Child...

~ Jade Ondrea ~

Sunday, October 28th 2007 -- 5:14 a.m.

6 lbs. 15 oz.

18 inches

Mommy, Daddy, Baby and Grammy are all doing fine...



*Thanks to Auntie Daryn for the pictures.

One Month... and Counting.

It's hard to believe she's almost here but she almost IS... and yes...


I was just thinking today about how quickly time flies and about how only yesterday I was taking THIS picture...


So many words to express but I guess right now the main thing I want to say to my daughter (besides "Just don't get too freaked out about labor, ok, because even though it may feel like something's going terribly wrong at the time... you'll look back about five minutes later and realize how absolutely perfect it was)...

Is...

Enjoy each and every moment of her childhood... I mean, every single second of it. That was the first and foremost bit of wisdom (by a landslide) given to me at my first baby shower and yet I'm not sure I completely understood it at the time. I'm quite sure I was probably thinking to myself, "Well (duh) of course!"

And then I spent the next 24 years being a mom... and trust me... even in the best case scenarios, and even when your children turn out to be as perfectly wonderful as you'd imagined they'd be... it's still not always that easy. But it's important!

Because it all goes by so fast! And someday you'll wish you could just have it all back... for a second at least...

Anyway, I never, ever pictured these pictures 24 years ago. But I really love being able to picture them now...





And honestly Whit?... that's probably the biggest "handful" you've ever been...

And I think I can probably speak for your daddy as well...