Honor at home.

Life thus far.

My beautiful little girl has been nothing but a pleasure she is sweet and loving and such a good cuddle bug. She is eating and sleeping very well and we almost have a pattern down for night time already. Her social calendar has been quite full and she's already double booked for 2 parties on the 28th of June.

Here's the review of the past week an a half with Honor Daigh.

Monday May 25th:

Honor met many doctors & nurses. Her Great Grampy, Steve Carroll, a.k.a. "Da" came to meet her along with Uncle Tim, Mike Minion, Mike Doyle, Auntie Caitlin and Maria. Da brought her flowers. Tim brought her a pretty sailboat dress from Maine. Caitlin made her a beautiful handcrafted blanket. Maria brought her sweet little onesies and bibs. She also got a visit from Auntie Lisa, Georgia & uncle Ken who brought her a lovely kittie blanket and pretty pink dresses. Auntie Michelle and Cousins Caitie & Aoife also came to see the newest family member and brought her quite the stylish little Calvin Klyne outfits. Georgia thinks shes pretty, loved to hold her and is glad shes a girl.







Tuesday May 26th:

Many more docs came Tuesday. She got blood drawn, and applied for her birth certificate and social security card. Her Super Special Auntie Beth, who helped her come in to this world, visited with special bundles of pink galore and sweet bedtime song CDs that she listens to every night. Auntie Cathy and Shannon also joined the Pink Parade with oodles of girlie gifts. Honor didn't go to the nursery very much but they took her there for a little while Tuesday night. The Docs all said she was the best dressed baby in there. They loved the monkey blanket! Rumor has it that while they did her tests between 1 am and 4 am while mommy slept, Auntie Beth was in the nursery playing with her!!




Wednesday May 27th:
(Happy Birthday Sydney!)

Daddy was shocked to see a band-aid on his little girls foot. Honor had her PKU test over night and was just fine, but we saw just how protective Thomas is with his little angel. Andy, Kristen and Lilly Arnold came to meet her as well as Brian, Jen (and the bump that will soon be Ethan) Donahue. Auntie Caitlin came back for round two of cuddles also. Daddy got his very own baby bottle from Bri & mommy got pink Champagne from Jen! Then daddy & Honor slept while mommy packed all of her pretty pink gifts and got ready to head home Thursday morning.






Thursday May 28th:
(Happy 1st Birthday Tristen!)

Honor weighed 6 lbs, 9 oz at the time of discharge. Praise God, they did not weigh momma.


Special thanks to all for presents, prayers and good company while we were in the hospital.

Sweet as Pie!

Here's our girl day 2!

Honor Daigh Lucas has Arrived!

It's a girl! Honor Daigh Lucas was born on May 24th, 2009 @ 3:45 pm. She's a little beauty weighing in at 7lbs and 4.8 oz. We are all absolutely smitten!

On Saturday morning I felt like something was a little off. I walked the dog with Tom, took a shower and after an hour and a half of not feeling much movement, off we went to Tufts. The docs agreed the bump was very still even though there was a strong heart beat and decided to induce me. I'll save you the over night details other than lots of pain and no sleep. We watched the sox game and played trivial pursuit to pass the time.

We were awake bright and early this am and although labor was progressing slowly, it was moving along. THEN she decided she didn't want to wait for me to be ready and let the docs know SHE WANTED OUT. Within moments of her decision, the docs, nurses, Beth & Tom were all geared up and I was unplugged from about 5 monitors, my epidural and ready to roll off to the obstetric operating room. And within moments of that, she was making the cutest little cries I've ever heard Tom got to snip her cord and we became THREE!

She is a very sweet little girl. Very alert. Eating well. And an absolute cuddle bug.

Visiting Hours at Tufts are 2-8pm. And we will most likely be here for Monday, Tuesday and probably Wednesday.

IT's TWINS!!!!

Well I've made it to May 22nd so technically although there's only one baby in my belly, it will be born a Gemini - Thus Twins. Now that I have your attention, I'm off to the Doctors in the morning for one more appointment and Non-Stress Test. hopefully all will go well and I'll make it through the weekend without having to deal with the holiday traffic while in labor!



Aoife (pronounced E-Fa) is staying with us (my 19 year old niece from Dublin) and has been a huge help and great company. We've been doing a lot of long slow walks around Boston, Cambridge and Watertown. Nearly every person we've encountered has given their opinion of what I'm having, a big baby, a small baby, a boy, a girl and so on. My nesting has gone pretty well and the house is all ready for the baby. (we hope)