Olivia's first day

Here she is in the NICU.

She weighs 2.5 pounds and she is 14 inches long. She's tiny, beautiful and overall she looks great. She has long fingers and dark hair. I wish we could have spent more time with her.

I love her already and can't wait for her and Rocco to be best buds.

Jenn is amazing and looks so good considering she just had major surgery. Andy is doing well too. He was telling Jenn that SHE HAD no idea how much he's been through in the last few weeks. He's exhausted. I thought Jenn was going to kick his ass. We were all laughing. Daniel piped in and said mother's had no idea how tough birth was on Dad's.

Rocco is doing great and handled his flight really well. This kid has serious flight miles under his belt.

Ok, signing off for the night. Please continue to keep Olivia, Jenn and Andy in your thoughts.

I'll try to post more soon.

Welcome to the world, Olivia Victoria Garcia

We fly out tomorrow to be with Andy, Jenn and hopefully we get to meet Olivia. She's in the NICU right now. She was delivered this afternoon around 4PM. My brother said that she has the Meranza nose and black hair. I love it. I can't wait to see her, to meet her, to hold her. God, little babies are the best! I'm so relieved that everyone is doing well. I haven't spoken to Jen but Andy said she was doing OK considering.
I hope to post a photo or two very soon.

Please keep Andy, Jenn and Olivia in your thoughts. They need lots of good loving energy vibrations right now. It's been a ROUGH ride to say the least. I'm proud of them and how they've handled this pregnancy and birth.

And I'm excited, excited...so excited to be an aunt.

My mom would be so happy, so ecstatic, so wildly emotional. I wish she were here. Who knows, maybe she is.

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German Breakfast

A few weeks ago we had a few friends and their babes over for breakfast. Daniel bought rolls and we boiled eggs and had a spread with cheese, lox, herring and fruit. The little ones got to play together and we had a chance to relax and catch up.

This actually took place 3 weeks ago. This is the same weekend that Jenn was taken to the hospital. Luckily she is stable and keeping her spirits up considering all that she is going through. I tell you, that little girl wants out and the world is not ready for her yet. She needs to stay in the bun and bake for a bit more. Rocco and I have a flight to San Diego next week to visit again. It'll be nice to see Jenn and Andy and George. Rocco loves that dog so it'll be good entertainment for him. George is going to make an excellent doggie brother.

Future Engineer

At least Daniel hopes so. I bought him these stackable boxes last week and he loves to play with them. I love it too because it give me a bit of free time.
I'm always up for that! He is busy busy busy. Before having Rocco, I never really understood how much work kids were. He keeps me super super busy these days. If I'm not chasing him around the house, we are at the park or at a kinder gym or some class. He needs so much "play time" right now. It's good for him in the end. He's talking so much these days. It's so insanely cute.

Ok, it's 5:31AM and I'm going to try to get some sleep. I've been up since 4AM. It figures that the night Rocco actually sleeps well I can't.

Time out

I can't even count how many time out's he has on a weekly basis.
Daniel and I give him a warning before making him sit on his pillow for 3 minutes. Sometimes he sits on it without protest and other times it's a battle to keep him on the pillow.

Throwing oranges

Rocco's love den

When I have more energy to write, I'll fill in the blanks. For now, here it is - Rocco's love den. He starts off the night in it and ends the night by crying his way into our room.