Tenley's Here

Welcome to the world Tenley Marie Vermeulen!

Tenley made her grand entrance Friday, June 1st at 7:38pm.  She weighed in a 8lbs 12 oz and 21 in. long.  She has a full head of hair, which honestly I was scared of at first, but now I like it.  It is curly when it's wet too so Jared has a chance of getting his fro child with curly wild hair like I had when I was a young one.  


Everything at the hospital went GREAT, I seriously don't think it could have gone better.  We went in Thursday night and I started some meds and Friday morning they started me on Pitocin - which induces labor and starts contractions.  


Jared was the greatest hubby ever!  He was very good at counting and getting me whatever I wanted and just making me feel secure, loved, and encouraged!  I could not ask for a better hubby or a better dad for Tenley.  I thought I loved Jared an OOBER amount before this, but now I love him on a whole different level...hard to explain.  


The hospital was wonderful, Jared did everything for Tenley so I could just rest and recover.  The food was actually pretty good too so that was great.  We had a few visitors and enjoyed the time just getting to know Tenley.  Sunday we were really ready to leave though, after being couped up for 2 days in there.  We got all our discharge papers and then were waiting around for them to come wheel me out, and finally decided that was stupid...Jared asked the nurse if we could just leave and she said yeah so we grabbed our stuff and Tenley and walked out.  We made a stop at Target on the way home to pick up a few things.  


Grandparents came by again on Sunday night for visits.  


Monday I went to the mall to get some things and Jared stayed home with Tenley, it was wonderful to be out doing something, not at home or in teh hospital.  I drove with the windows down, music playing, singing along...It was great.

So far so good, we have Tenley's first Dr Appt tonight.  We are loving having visitors and most of them have escaped without getting dirty...Sorry Becky!

Duke has been the best big brother ever, he gives her kisses on her cheek every morning.  While Tenley is eating he sits in front of us and protects us, he likes to lay in her room and sleep when she is sleeping.  He isn't acting jealous really or anything, he likes to snuggle her, but has been doing his own thing and entertaining himself too.  He does miss the sleep at night...but we assured him it will get better :0)