Tick, THROB, Tick, THROB

We've had some good and some bad things happen here in this very eventful week. But for now let me tell you about the last 24 hours. On the negative side, my chest has been hurting a lot, LOT, more again and we're unsure again if we are going to be able to wait the 48 days until health insurance. On the plus side, yesterday was one of our anniversaries (3 years since we started 'going steady') and we gorged ourselves in a very unhealthy way at Perkins. There is no Perkins in Atlanta, so when I saw that there was one in Knoxville I was pretty determined. We celebrated at Perkins after spending an hour at the hospital holding baby Lili who was born on the 10th to our good friends here in our little town. Lili was 5 pounds 12 ounces and 17 1/2 inches long. She was born two weeks early but the doctors, upon seeing her, suspect that they may have been wrong about the due date as she seems to show signs of being younger than 38 weeks. Mom and baby are doing fine. Honorary Aunt Jenn is having a hard time concentrating due to the biological clock GONGING inside her head. Here are some pictures from our day of babying/eating/driving.

Darling Baby Lili (The smallest child I've ever held. Dad and Big Sister had to head out to buy premie clothes because the newborn ones were too big)


Paul and Lili (he was a little scared to hold her but she slept the entire time that either of us held her so it wasn't too scary after all)


Big Sister Mara (singularly unimpressed with all the attention showered on Lili, so here she is with tears in her eyes after being punished)


Driving Home (after a full day of baby holding and celebratory eating. I couldn't resist these beautiful clouds in the sunset, I wish you could see the mountains in the background though, that made it even nicer)