I have a new granddaughter!!

I have a new granddaughter! Annalisse Gabrielle was born at 10:35pm last night right into the loving hands of her grandma (me). She is 8#1oz and 19.5” long. We haven’t decided if she is going to have light brown hair or be blonde… She is such a sweetheart :) Hubby got to the hospital just in time to witness the birth of our 5th grandchild.. It is always so amazing to me to watch each new little person enter the world. I can’t describe the joy and love I felt when she slid into my hands and I laid her on the tummy of my daughter, my precious Lily… Hubby and I stayed about 90 minutes more, just to make sure mom and baby were doing fine and then we headed home. Me in the van and hubby on the Goldwing. I would have much rather rode with him, the full moon last night was gorgeous and soooo bright and the air was so warm :) A perfect night for a beautiful little baby girl to be born….. I just called my daughter a little while ago and both her and baby are doing great and will be heading home tomorrow, or rather heading here and then going home later :) Miranda is definitely back to her wild little self. She is still pretty careful about bumping her toe, which is real good since it is still not completely healed… But there is just no keeping her down now. I just wish we could get back to the reliable potty training that she was doing when she first hurt her toe. It seems like we have slid back about 4 steps in the process again. I guess that is to be expected when she had to go back into a diaper for the last 2 weeks. I just couldn’t get her to the potty in time with that big leg… Oh well, she will get the hang of it eventually… There is a big street dance tonight in our little rural community. Once a year in the summer our little town has a street dance on Friday night and then a big parade and activities all day Saturday. Usually this involves a big tractor pull, lots of food and craft booths. The kids are looking forward to going tonight. I am thinking hubby and I and baby will stay home this year and just let the 2 of them go. Their older sister might go over too when she gets home from work tonight. Maybe it will be a quiet night for us… Hubby has to work all weekend and doesn’t get a day off til Monday… It is my daughter Caties’ 20th birthday on Monday. I can’t believe that my oldest 4 kids are all 20 and older… When did all this happen?? I have a son that will be 17 in November, and a daughter that will be 15 in October, and then the baby who will be 3 in October still at home. Ohhhh and I can’t forget their oldest sister who is 26 and moved back home last December… We still have a pretty full house…. And it looks like it is going to be this way for a while…. Well, it is headache city for me so I am going to sign off and take some more Excedrin.. Have a great weekend everyone,,, YEAH! SMILE!! It’s Friday!