finally, a name.

man we had the hardest time choosing! we were back and forth on a few different options for a middle name and we couldn't decide between lucy or lucille. then on tuesday, there was a little scare that she had a heart problem, meaning we needed to take her to the cardiologist at primary's the next day. meaning she needed a NAME for our insurance!! all the sudden it hit us, Lucille to be shortened to Lucy, and Mackenzie after my one and only beautiful sister. Danny was the one who threw it out there and we all immediately loved it! it was the first name combination that really "clicked" for me and that i felt fit her. and thank heavens, the docs found nothing wrong with her little heart. phew!!

miss lucy is a whole week old today and everything is going amazing! we love her so much and she is honestly the sweetest most beautiful baby. i feel like photos do her no justice! the consensus is that she looks like me, but she definitely has danny's chin and dimples! which of course i LOVE. also, there are pictures of max and lucy at the same age where they look like twins. it's crazy!! she is a nursing pro- never mind the fact that i have enough milk supply for triplets. no joke. though i think we may be slowly regulating that! she eats every three hours during the day and at night she has been eating around 11 or 12, sleeping until around 4 (sometimes i wake HER up!) and then eating and sleeping again until around 8:30. i like her a LOT for that. =) she weighed 6 lbs 7 ounces at her checkup, so that's good!

and max. max is OBSESSED with her! like, probably loves her a little TOO much. lots of hugs and kisses (aka smothering) and he wants to hold her all the time. he doesn't like visitors to hold her for long- he's a little possessive of HIS baby. =) he has actually pointed to her a few times and said "she's MINE?" or "dat's MY baby." so cute! i have never seen him more excited than when he met her for the first time, it absolutely melted me. he also love to smell her! one of the cutest things he has said went a little something like this.

me: "max, are you giving baby sister kisses?" [seeing that he had his face right on hers]

max: "no, i'm just doing like dis!" [wrinkles up his nose and makes sniffing noises]

me: are you smelling her?

max: "YEA! she smews DOOD! (good)" [turns and sniffs me] "YOU not smew dood."

me: "oh yea, what does mommy smell like?"

max: "you smew like LUNCH!"

awesome.

i have lots more to share, including her birth story, which was amazing. I took hypnobirth classes and had a NATURAL delivery that i loved. and there are even pictures to boot thanks to my friend CHELSEA who made it just in time to photograph it! as soon as i can pull myself away from this sweet little lady i will share. =)