The Meyer Family

Notice the shirt says "Happy to be a girl!"

It has been only 19 days but Nallia has grown so fast. She has a curious personality and is of course a bit feistier than Bryson. We had a pretty good week, Drew was back at work and my mom left Tuesday. Bryson had fun seeing her off at the airport. You would think since we live so close he would be over the airplane thing but it seemed all new to him. We hung out at the airport for a few minutes and watched the planes. There were two planes parked on the tarmac, Bryson explained how one was for Grammy and of course the other was “Becca’s Plane”.

In March my cousin, Rebecca, came to visit and Bryson had a blast. Since we took Rebecca to the airport and she got on a plane to fly home to Boston, every time we see a plane there is some hope she is on it. He loves to wear any of the clothes she bought him and recently I got a necklace in the mail from her, every night he tells me how I am wearing my “Becca Necklace”.

After my mom left it has been just me and the kids. What a reality check! Bryson is very high energy, at least when I was pregnant I could play with him and I was just a bit slow, now I am pinned to a chair while I feed Nallia or at best have one hand free while holding her. She doesn’t do very well laying down, she tends to burp and spit up, so we hold her most of the day or I have her in the Moby Wrap.  Nights have not been as hard as I thought they could be. It seems to be best if Drew takes her for a few hours in the evening after Bryson is in bed and I go to bed, then I take her from about 1am on. She feeds most of the night and I change her a few times a night but over all we are sleeping.

Thursday Nallia had her first doctor’s visit. She was 20 ¾ inches and 8lbs 5.5 ounces. She has a slightly stuffed up nose (thanks to B) but everything else was great.  It was just another reminder of how great our doctor is and how supportive the practice is of homebirth.

One of the really cool things about living where we live is some of the opportunities we have. We recently bought a share in a local CSA (Community Supported Agriculture). The farm is Deep Seeded Community Farm and our farmer is “Farmer Eddie”. Every Friday we visit the farm and pickup some produce. Farmer Eddie has set aside an area for the kids. The past few visits its in the strawberry fields. Bryson put on his boots in preparation for today’s visit. Grammy is in town and she went with us today. Enjoy the video of Bryson tromping through the field with his Grammy in search of the perfect strawberry!

Nallia had a great day in the world of pink. With Grammy visiting, a big box from Kits Aunt Annie, Cory stopping by with gifts, surprise pink bag of stuff from David, Marisa, Cade and Rilley, we  officially have a collection of pink for Nallia.

This whole pink thing is getting a bit overwhelming for me, but its growing on me. When I  said to Kit “We will have the best looking girl in carpenter pants.”  I finally got it and have now realized that we will need a good amount of girly stuff for our Nallia.

As the world moves on around us we are still blissfully enjoying having two children in our house. Bryson has not gotten over how much he wants to kiss and hold his sister. He runs to her every time she cries and wants to do anything he can to help. Nallia is changing and growing up by the day. Today we took her to Drew’s work to meet the extended family. We also took her for lab work at the hospital and a weight check at the lactation clinic. She did wonderfully and loves being in the car, she is either looks around or sleeping.

We picked up Bryson from school where he came running out wanting to see his sister. Amazingly both kids slept for about an hour while Drew and I cleaned up and had lunch. We had a late afternoon visit from the midwife and the Drew and Bryson washed the truck and went to see the tractors building a street and herd of alpaca down the street, (I think that is only something you would she in McKinleyville!) while Nallia and I rested.

After Bryson’s bath, he was ready to help with Nallia’s first bath. He brought over his stool and his camera and helped wash her. She seemed very much as easy which is very different from Bryson’s first bath at home where he just screamed.

As life becomes a new normal, we are still so blown away by the great love and support that our community continues to show. We have had meals for the last three nights and various gifts from a basket of fresh strawberries, fresh eggs, bread and everything/anything pink.

I am sure more pictures will come soon but here is one Drew took on the walk with Bryson.

I took this video while the midwifes were gathering the vital stats of Nallia.

Here we are. Just 24 hours ago we were calling the midwives to come. After a day or so of on and off contractions things really got going around 10pm last night, one of our lovely midwives got to the house about 10:45. I labored in the birth tub and the shower for just a short time. My water broke at 1am and here she came at 1:18am.

Drew caught her and as you can see from some of the photos she was happy and wide eyed from the start. We woke Bryson up shortly afterward and he was very happy to see a new sister. He had tons of fun roaming the house in the early morning getting away with just about anything while I was cleaned up and Nallia was checked over.

After all calmed down about 5am, we got just a few hours of sleep and B was off to school. Drew checked-in at work and we made a few phone calls. This afternoon was filled with super helpful visits from Brooke and the boys, Jamie and Debbie. Now Bryson is fast asleep and poor Drew has worked his tail off all night and day to help me and care for Bryson, he has even managed to get pictures ready to upload!

So we are off to bed our first night as parent of two! A crazy boy and sweet little girl. How wonderful!

We have posted pics.

!!!WARNING!!! These are labor and birth photos, there is some nudity. PG-13 (that happens at births )

Name: TBA

Mom and baby are doing well. Bryson is VERY excited about having a little sister.

Check back for pictures and the details.

We got a new fancy camera last year. It was dropped a couple of times and stopped working correctly. It can’t zoom/unzoom, get into the menu system, or change anything. We replaced it with the same model and put the “broken” one away.

Well the other day I grab it because I couldn’t find the “working” one. Bryson wanted to take some pictures too. Since then this had become his camera. He will grab it, turn it on and take photos.

Well take a look at some of his masterpieces.

It’s summertime, and what a better time to have a haircut. You can click on any of the pictures and see them all.
Here is the before picture:

During:

After:

And not to be outdone, Daddy gets a matching haircut.

We had some spring showers recently. They kept us inside almost all day. The sky cleared up and we put rain boots on Bryson and went for a walk. Shortly after we found puddles.