Baby Girl Summer

Our family was completed with the very swift, very surprising early arrival of our second baby girl, little Summer Emilija.

 Around 4a on the morning of Saturday, August 12, I experienced what felt like my water breaking. I was so terrified, I was in denial and went back to sleep. I woke up and, walking around, it was undeniable that my water broke, but I oddly had no other symptoms, no contractions, nothing. But, the water breaking is a big deal and after a call to the hospital, we were told we had to come in. Because I wasn't suffering in any way, we got to sort of leisurely take our time getting things together, saying bye to Sophie, and heading off.

Here's what was crazy: we confirmed my water broke, but nothing was happening. The nurse mentioned that it was therefore probably the "forebag" (who knew that was a thing) and that once the "real" bag broke, stuff would really happen. We checked in in the late morning, and around 4p, my "real" bag unmistakably broke. Summer arrived less than two hours later, with a total of 2 pushes. It was wild. It also happened so fast, with an almost failed epidural that there was some real laboring and some real fear there for awhile. I lucked out that it ended up taking effect in time and I had a very smooth delivery in the end.

We were transferred to postpartum quickly thereafter, and we had a shockingly restful night. This kid is, was, and continues to be, an amazing sleeper (fingers crossed it stays that way!!)

Eating the In-N-Out AJ brought

The next morning, we had visitors, bearing donuts and coffee, oh my God, so heavenly. They were even there as we were being discharged and got to give us a nice send-off.

At home, Sophie was napping, which was perfect for us to get set up for the Meeting of the Babies, so Kiwi got to be the first to meet the new addition.

Sophie woke up quickly thereafter, and watching them meet each other was so precious. 

Sophie was, and continues to be, a very loving, doting and helpful big sister. It's a Herculean effort to make sure they continue to get as equal as possible attention and not let the baby overtake our attention, but I guess we're doing an okay job of it because Sophie has (so far) not shown any resentment or jealousy and continues to want to include Summer in all of her activities.

So that's the life we're getting used to now. We're five weeks in and surviving but you know how it is with these suckers - once you think you have them figured out, they change! 

But, welcome to the world and the family, kid.

Rob + Rafael

Welp, still here and pregnant. The baby can officially come at any time now because we were able to successfully make it down to San Diego last weekend to attend the festival that was Rob & Rafael getting married!

Eleven years in the making and it felt like a great accumulation and celebration. Their date was very important to them, so the wedding itself was on Thursday, August 3, followed by a reception on Friday, August 4 and a picnic in the park on Saturday, August 5. Even though Thursday was rushed since AJ was still working, it was great because after being exhausted from the three days, we drove home on Saturday night and then had Sunday to relax and recover before the week (as much as anyone with a toddler can). 

It was such a great San Diego wedding, which is totally their style, and the ceremony was at the Presidio, which, no one I had talked to had been to before (myself included) so it was great to spend time there, and it was a perfect venue for a wedding, especially including being on top of the hill and having a beautiful view that stretched to the bay and we even got to see the fireworks show from Sea World at 9p.

Isn't this venue lovely?

Their colored pants matched each
of their mothers dresses, it was so sweet

Yep, 9 months pregnant alright

Table Cuatla!

The decor and tablescaping was lovely

This sparkling cider is very good

This photo was too magic not to share

Kinda recreating Vegas 2020

2/3 of What A Bust! Sri said that Palak
could be the guy in the hat

Bordeaux Besties

This was the Wordle word for the day of their wedding!
Quite apropos

The Saturday reception was held at Stone Brewery in Liberty Station. When we arrived I said "we're here for the wedding" and the receptionist asked "Which one?" and I said "Oh, I didn't realize there were two" and she said "We have three tonight" LOL

We never got a chance to corral them
together for a photo with us so we improvised

Debbie giving Kacey a head massage for her headache

Pam and Doug delivering their speech. I so appreciated
Rob's shout-out to me each time a "reprise" was mentioned

It was a really nice picnic in the park on Sunday in Mission Hills, very relaxed and nice with great taco truck catering and can't forget the piñatas! It was a nice way to end the weekend even though it was still sad to say goodbye to everyone.

And now they are living their best lives for almost two weeks in the south of Spain (so heavenly sounding!) and I am at work, so very pregnant still with no end in sight; even my blood pressure is still good! I guess we're in it for the long haul.