Look!
I took my laptop to bed last night so I could keep an eye on developments, and spent most of the night hitting refresh as people kept sending emails and posting updates from the hospital. Five centimeters! Eight centimeters! And then she arrived at 2:10 am, welcomed in person by her parents, Lindsay and Johnnie, her grandma (my sister Deb), and her Auntie Kati. Deb called me at 2:30 to report that she was a 5 pounds 7 ounce, 18 inch, long-limbed but short-torsoed redhead with attitude. She didn’t have a name yet. Maybe Brooke. Maybe Piper. Maybe Olivia. The name came sometime after I fell asleep: Chelsea. Chelsea Katherine. (Katherine is for her Auntie Kati, who is Lindsay’s sister and best friend.)
Isn’t she gorgeous? I don’t know whose fingers those are, but my God they’re huge! Congratulations to all the first-time parents, grandparents, great grandparents, aunts, uncles, great-aunts, great-uncles, second cousins, first cousins once-removed, and everybody else who loves this baby. Her birth knits several previously-unrelated families together, and starts a whole new generation. Welcome to the world, Chelsea. I love you.
And now I really must stop procrastinating about sewing the sleeves into that handknit baby sweater.
I love that a birth ‘knits together’. Now, get sewing.
Congratulations to all! What a beautiful little ginger bundle.
And here I thought I was doing so well not being blubbery about her…what a beautiful post for my first grandchild. I will treasure this forever.
congratulations Zoom – she is absolutely beautiful. This was the first site I accessed this morning and what a way to start my day!!!
Cheers – Linda Anne
Deb Zoom writes up the best birth stories doesn’t she??? I am loving all the photos on facenbook. I’m haunting them! I can’t get enough!
Congratulations! Happy news is the best kind to share.
She is truly beautiful!!! I have to knit the hood and assemble the hoodie finally. I like the sewing together less than any other part of the knitting process, but my little guy is growing like a weed, so it’s now or it’s for the next grandchild!! Enjoy!!!!!
I can’t believe the difference in size…this time flies by so quickly.