Our bipawd is here! 

Well, actually, she's been here for a month now, but life gets crazy busy with a newborn around – who knew!

I'll spare everyone the super gory details, but little miss made her arrival on February 21st after 25 hours of labour at 12:55 am weighing 5lbs 7oz. She was just over 3 weeks early but perfectly healthy!

The dogs are doing well with her but we're still taking things super slow with Dante and Mina. Coda has been around lots of babies so she wasn't phased at all by the new arrival. Mina is totally in love but a little too over excited still – she's coming around though! Dante was a bit worrisome at first. Very excited but he would chase us while we held her and sit in expectation like he does for toys or treats, so we had to back off quite a bit and take things more slowly with him. He's doing much better now! Any interactions right now are still brief and heavily supervised and will be for a long while – you can never be too careful!

We're doing well. I had a tough go – labour was rough on me and the recovery was pretty brutal, along with some infections. But we're over that now and I feel great! It helps when you have a baby who sleeps really well at night and is probably one of the most content and easy babies ever! We're super lucky – we hit the baby jackpot for sure.

Here she is 

Thank you guys! Her name is Alexi Elizabeth 

Shari, unless my fiance counts as a child (and most days he does! ) she's my first! 

I can tell you this about girls so far – at this age, they're every bit as gross as boys are   Between little miss and Daddy (and the three dogs!), my nose is assaulted on a regular basis.  But, when there are pink ruffles on the assaulting bum, it's much more tolerable. I wonder if Daddy would wear pink ruffles on his bum? 

 Oh, and be forewarned – even though little girls lack the proper equipment, they can still get you when they pee during diaper changes! A lesson Dad learned pretty fast! Hehe.