Barrett Celestyne Robinson

Sorry for the delay in getting pictures and info out to everyone, the last 24 hours have been a bit hectic.

Well, we went into this weekend knowing Sue had a C-section scheduled for this Wednesday 2/4. Betsy has been out here for a couple of weeks helping us get the house in order for the new baby. This last weekend was spent tying up a lot of loose ends in the house: finalizing the baby's room, getting our room ready for Sue's recovery from surgery, cleaning out our cars and installing the new baby seat.

Good thing we finished just about everything Sunday afternoon...with 45 seconds left in the Super Bowl, our little bundle of joy decided she could wait no longer. Sue's water broke, and we were off to the hospital. After a long night, Sue gave birth to a 8lb 8oz baby girl at 4:23AM early this morning.

Barrett Celestyne and Mom are both resting right now in bed and doing great! Barrett has been doing what the doctors are referring to as "grunting", basically still trying to flush out some amniotic fluid from her lungs that was swallowed during the delivery. For this reason, she spent the majority of the morning in the nursery under observation while Sue and I rested in her room. The grunting has pretty much stopped by now, and she has been with us all afternoon.

Nana brought Brayden by today to meet his baby sister. Unfortunately the encounter was not the life-altering event we were hoping for; he was more interested in the hospital and all the machines in our room than the baby.

Enjoy some pics of little Barrett! Not suprising she looks exactly like Brayden, only with hair. We are expecting to remain in the hospital through Wednesday or Thursday of this week. Hopefully we can catch some z's tonight we haven't gotten any sleep yet...