My Girl is Nine Today

Mikaela as a baby...one of my first ever layouts LOL. Bad photo of the layout, but I didn't have time to rephotograph it.


It is hard to imagine that this little creature is now nine years old today. This time nine years ago she was wrenched from my womb in one of those nightmarish scenes like you see in ER...gurney racing down the hall, doctors calling out terms like 'Spinal Block', 'Placenta Praevia' and 'Accelerated Heartbeat'. After having a textbook natural delivery with Jarred, this whole scenario seemed surreal and very frightening. Her heartrate had almost doubled during labour and my OB decided on a ceasarean delivery in a great hurry. It all happened in less than 20 minutes from start to finish. Richard barely got time to pop on a cap and gown before they sliced me open.....to deliver our beautiful baby girl. I didn't know the sex of the baby so it was a brilliant surprise to have a daughter. She looked as though she had run a marathon...red and purple and panting for breath. Later the OB told me how lucky we were that she survived. We knew we were not lucky, but very blessed to have God's hand upon our little one.

We celebrated her birthday last night with a little party at home with all the family and her little friend Grace. They had a sleepover last night and stayed up playing their Nintendo DS's and chatting and giggling as girls do. Today we went to see 'Alvin and the Chipmunks' (so cute and very funny!) and went out for lunch. It was lots of fun and Mikaela declared her birthday 'totally awesome' :)

Here is the birthday girl........
I sewed the girls some 'party handbags' from denim with polkadot linings for the movies.

Mikaela and Grace....how cute are they!? :)