I left New York Wednesday morning around 8:04 a.m. and arrived at the hospital in Michigan at 5:35 p.m. It usually takes me twelve hours to drive from New York to Michigan. I guess there must not have been as much traffic!
Since arriving, I've been very busy, but loving every minute of it. Tony and I have gone grocery shopping twice. Thursday evening Rachael and the family and Francie came over to Todd and Lori's for dinner. Friday evening, everyone went to Rachael and Derrick's house for dinner. Natalie and Adam arrived Thursday night and Natalie joined us for dinner on Friday. Adam wasn't feeling too good, so he stayed home for the evening. Today, Sabbath, I took Anthony to Sabbath School. I wasn't sure if I could handle him for both church and Sabbath school, so I opted for just Sabbath school. Francie met me there to help. Tony sure loves participating in the program. Todd arrived shortly after the program had begun - so the three of us took turns helping Tony with the activities. Today is Derrick's birthday, so we celebrated at Lori and Todd's house for lunch. Rachael brought two cakes and I made lunch. Adam was feeling better so everyone came for the celebration.
Right now, Lori and Isabella are taking a nap and so is Tony. The house is really quiet. Baby Isabella is so cute and she is such a good baby - so far she has only cried when she is hungry. I'm enjoying spending time with both Tony and Isabella.
I feel very honored to have one of my grandchildren named after me. Todd wanted Isabella's middle name to be my first name, Cecelia, but Lori thought that would be a little too much of a name for such a little girl - so they decided to use my middle name as Isabella's middle name. What an honor for me.
Bob and I now have 19 grandchildren. We still get excited when we hear about another new grandchild and just as anxious to get to hold them for the first time. Each grandchild holds a very special place in our family.
Here are a few pictures that were taken the first evening Isabella arrived home.
She is just beautiful!
The spoiling process has begun.
Anthony meeting his little sister at home. Todd's parents live close by so they took care of Anthony and brought him up to the hospital to meet his new little sister. I heard that Anthony wasn't quite sure what this new baby sister thing was all about.
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We're glad you're getting to meet your granddaughter. She's really cute. Our congrats to Lori and Tony! Nice to catch up with you on here once in a while. The way I found works for me to stay in touch with friends is on Facebook.
Your daughter-in-law,
AH
I figured you've been really busy with grandmotherly things and that's why you haven't blogged. I was happy to see your blog tonight (Just got home from the evening at Diane's scrapping and Brent made us a delicious dinner.).
When do you drive home to NY? Have a safe trip.
I figured you've been really busy with grandmotherly things and that's why you haven't blogged. I was happy to see your blog tonight (Just got home from the evening at Diane's scrapping and Brent made us a delicious dinner.).
When do you drive home to NY? Have a safe trip.
Yep, you sound busy but it also sounds like great fun getting to be with so many of the family.. and little Isabella is so adorable!
She's so much cuter in person, picrtures are cute too, but havent done her much justice. By the way, we made it home, shortly after 9:30, almost 10. Had a fun weekend. Will let you know if we are able to come up again next weekend as soon as we know we dont have anything else we have to do that we forgot about or dont know about yet.
Check your email as I just sent you an email that I hope you'll jump at.
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