New additions! Now & then!

And it isn't about a maths exam today!

Now..
As anyone who has been following my blog will know, I am due to be a Nan for the third time this week and today our eldest daughter had a gorgeous (well they all are aren't they) little girl. I had the big sisters and heard the news about three o'clock so took them and out Kate up to meet and greet at teatime. JB and Kate had been helping hold the fort at home and it has all gone really well.. mind you we have practiced a bit of late but it's made it lots easier for today.

She is a lovely little dollop, you can tell she has not had the natural journey into the world, her face is so plump and she doesn't have that 'I just arrived and it was a long road' look! Poor Mum on the other hand is quite sore, but she is doing great and we were all blown away by how keen both the girls were to see her..

We hadn't been given any idea of names, in fact I don't think they had any themselves, but she is going to be Annabelle Ivy, I love it! Mind you she may be Baby Belle! Then probably Annie or something she choses for herself when she's a precocious teen!

We are home again now and the bairns are in bed.. it's been a long day but definitely a new beginning.

I shall be adding this into my Nostalgia : New Beginnings challenge which I have made over at Lucky Snapping....here!

& Then...
It really doesn't seem long since I welcomed Lisa into the world herself. Her Dad was away working and I had her at home, just me, my Mum and the midwife who I had worked with at a doctor's for quite a while.. it was quite a female moment. All well planned, Ross (age two and three days) had gone to bed an hour before, I even read him a story first (and yes, I still have that book!).. she was born about 8pm and cried just as the doctor came up the stairs (I had worked with her too, so none of it seemed medical somehow..)

The doctor later told me that as she heard Lisa cry she thought 'ahh good, at least I don't have to resuss the baby..' Strange though I always found when I was pregnant that I had a real positive head on and never worried about it (not like I do now!! )

Mind you there had been a hue and cry about home deliveries at that time, as they had shut the local Maternity Unit in Penzance( because the specialists had got everyone to deliver in Truro and then transfer back to the unit at Bolitho to convalesce so they could manipulate the delivery figures and make it look like it wasn't needed.. but hey, new Mums DO need the kind of local maternity help they offered..)

....steps off soapbox..
The folk next door came in to see her and asked if I wanted anything...ummm, got any chocolate? Yes, they did, half a large bar of Dairy Milk !  A few hours later it was just me, my Mum and Lisa on my lap. Strangely I sat there unable to go to sleep whilst the old and new generations slept noisily alongside me!!

A sweet twist to this is that all the pictures I have from the next day, me Ross & his new baby sister..were taken by Colin who was our best pal and home at the time!! He always grins and says about Lisa 'Ha, I saw her first!'.. and those pictures are just great..

 Lilly                                                           Lyla                                                              Annabelle..xx