Visit to the Dinosaur Museum

Bill had off the week of Christmas and, very fortunately, had already arranged to take the week of New Year's off as well. When Xavi was about 10 days old and the girls were finally all feeling better, we went to the U of M Museum of Natural History for the first time.

And a leap forward to the present

Making a two year leap ahead from the last post to where we are today...These pictures are from our celebration of the feast of St. Lucy, December 13. (It was also, incidentally, the same day that both Anastasia and Camilla kicked the pacifier habit for good. These happy pictures were before they knew that the binkies were gone for good. Actually, it turned out to be an almost non-event. Almost. :)

Welcome, Anastasia!

Anastasia Lucy Mangan was born at 10:31 p.m. on Friday, November 12. She weighed in at a whopping 5 lb, 5 oz and was 19 inches long. She made it 6 weeks longer than Camilla, being born just 1 1/2 hrs. shy of 34 weeks.

She's off to a great start!

All together

First moments

Since she was doing so well, I actually got to hold her for a few minutes after she was born before they took her to the NICU--a first for us!


Anastasia somehow managed to fold herself in half in her last days in the womb, so she was born with both of her feet tucked up around her ears. Her legs have gradually relaxed, but see how her foot is in this early picture...

We love to laugh!

Fun while waiting