Wednesday, October 21, 2009

the time zone called Abbie....

You'd think that when Sadie and I traveled to York last Thursday for her doctor's appointment, I might have thought that they would keep her. But, as we loaded all six cocker spaniels into the truck and went over our "list" of things we would get done while "in town", it never entered my mind that this would be the "beginning of things to come!!!" Sadie's blood pressure had been quite high at the previous appointment, so they wanted her back in a few days to re-check it, selfishly all I saw was "two hours in the truck for a 5 minute doctor's appointment" and never dreamed that they might want her to stay... which is exactly what happened. Poor Ed, not only got the call that Sadie would be staying at the hospital until Abbie arrived, but also that he needed to come down and collect the dogs!!!!

I notified Kassy, Diana and Kelli that Abbie might be arriving in the night. All three of them arrived to be Sadie's support team, and we kept a careful vigil all thru the night. All three gals had worked all day long, so it was going to be a pretty long night for them, as well as for Sadie. "Things" progressed well to about 8 centimeters and that was about as far as it went, for several hours, Sadie tried to move "things" along, but to no avail. At about 8:00 am, the doctor and mid wife had a long chat and came to Sadie with the idea that Abbie was going to need some help, and thus a c-section. At that point and time, Sadie was more than agreeable, and so Abbie arrived in the world on a slightly different game plan (hope that isn't going to be some omen with her life :-0 )........

And as you all know by now, baby Abbie was born at 1:22 pm on Friday October 16th!!!

Sadie and Abbie had a long list of company that came to visit. I think I got photos of almost everyone with baby Abbie, too many to post, but I hope that one day I will make a scrap book for her and she can see all the people that have been waiting to meet her. Sadie and Abbie also received so many nice gifts, (including this wonderful fruit basket from "aunt Kelli and uncle Rick") it's going to take her weeks to get all the thank you cards out... but, in the meantime, may I offer my sincere thank you to all of you for your support, encouragement and lovely gifts!!!!!


One of the "treats" from the hospital is a gourmet dinner the evening before you take a baby home. Sadie invited me to be her guest of honor.. and my goodness, it was a gourmet dinner!!! Here our chef delivers the meal... he was such a funny guy!!!

Both Sadie and I chose a wonderful dinner of haddock with all sorts of good trimmings...






And the dessert?? well, I'll just let you drool over them for a moment..........
As it turned out, the day was "quite messy" weather wise, in fact, we had just enough snow to say that we had our first "official" snow of the season.... I had already decided to stay the night with Sadie and Abbie, being "tucked" in at the hospital, that amazing meal and the excitement of Abbie heading home the next day, made for a very special evening.


Monday morning, we packed up and headed out. (don't you LOVE the hat???) Because I was teaching my dog classes in York that evening, we decided that Sadie and Abbie would just spend the afternoon at Kassy's house, that way they wouldn't have to "be alone" their first evening. ( Fire chief had to be at the station that evening!!!) That idea worked very well, Sadie had some visitors there, and Abbie got to meet the first part of the "dog family" (I'll put those pics in another blog).... It also gave Sadie a chance to catch her breath before heading home.



And so, life begins at home with baby Abbie, we don't know "night from day"...any little peep is heard by all (including a gaggle of cocker spaniels)




and "people" sleep in the strangest of places.. (due to the "surgery" Sadie finds a chair is more comfortable than a bed just now) I haven't slept thru the night, but I wasn't doing that anyways.... so as Ed said "now you have something to do when you can't sleep!!!"






and our "little peep" runs the show and has totally taken over our lives.... we are now living in the "time zone" called...





Abbie................