sooo cute! Congratulations!!!
Congratulations Patrick - billions of 's for you and your family...as I said on fb, she's perfect
Awww, she's adorable! And I love her little pink hat.
Congratulations!
"People, especially children, aren't measured by their IQ. What's important about them is whether they're good or bad, and these children are bad." ~ Alan Bernard
"You needn't die happy when your day comes, but you must die satisfied, for you have lived your life from beginning to end and ka is always served." ~ Roland Deschain
aww congratulations Patrick, she is beautiful!!!
and speedy recovery wishes to mommy & Ella Grace
Don't worry about the world coming to an end today it is already tomorrow in Australia.
Today I choose love instead of fear.
I choose peace instead of conflict.
I choose to be a love finder instead of a faultfinder.
I choose to be a love-giver instead of a love seeker.
Congrats! She is beautiful!
YOU MUST CHILL. I HAVE HIDDEN YOUR KEYS.
As I posted in Calvin's a moment ago, thank you again, everyone. It really makes me happy knowing that there are such kind people out in the world as exemplified by you all.
Here are some photos from yesterday (Thursday) evening.
On Grace's second day, I brought the boys to the hospital to meet their new little sister. Of course, they wanted to go in their pajamas...
Kisses for little sister:
The boys absolutely adore her. It makes a daddy proud.
oh, patrick.
she's so beautiful!
Those are great Patrick!
What a wonderful family you have there. You should be a proud daddy. You are clearly doing a great job of it.
Congratulations Patrick!!!! Would you like to borrow a shotgun in about 14 years?
Margaret Emmie Mackey Catoe, you are, have been, and always will be my soulmate, and I love you.
Con todo mi corazon, por todo de mis dias. And I always will, in this life and into the next.
August 2, 1947 - September 24, 2010
Thanks, guys, for all the well wishes and the lovely comments.
Jayson, yeah, I thought you'd like the name.
Sam, I'm already beginning to think I will.
My wife was discharged this afternoon, so she's home now. However the baby is staying in the NICU for a few more days (hopefully she'll get sprung on Monday, maybe Tuesday). I wish that weren't the case, but we've been in this situation before, with each of the boys, so we're at peace with it to the extent possible.
What's that? You want more photos?
Earlier tonight.
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ETA: I just re-read this entire thread. You are wonderful people.
patrick, i just want to cover her face in kisses!
ps. i hope she gets to come home on my birthday. that would rull.
Thank you, Brice and sj.
sarajean, yes, that would be cool. But it would be more awesome if she comes home sooner!
Here's a bonus goofball photo taken on the 19th:
By the way, I'm still debating whether to post the fact that a few months ago my wife (who is not an SK fan) told me she credits Stephen King with the fact that we were going to have a girl. True story.
I LOVE HER!
send her to me?
Awww Patrick, those photos are wonderful
You've got such a lovely family. How old are your boys? The pics of the three of them together are adorable.
Only the gentle are ever really strong.
congratulations Patrick! great pictures
Some are born to sweet delight,
some are born to the endless night.
Awwww x 1000! Your kids are freaking adorable, Patrick.
And the one from the 19th is probably her saying, "HEY, pay my daddy his beambucks!"
"People, especially children, aren't measured by their IQ. What's important about them is whether they're good or bad, and these children are bad." ~ Alan Bernard
"You needn't die happy when your day comes, but you must die satisfied, for you have lived your life from beginning to end and ka is always served." ~ Roland Deschain
sj, move back to California and we'll talk.
Heather, the boys are 8 and 6 years old. They are very excited about their new baby sister.
Thanks, Chap.
Daghain:
I just got back from a solo visit to the hospital. I like when I get to feed her. That doesn't take long, then I just hang around and hold her.
Oh. My. Gan!
How beautiful is little Ella Grace?? My heart just melted totally. I want to stare at her innocent, cute face forever. BIG congratulations to your family, Patrick!
absolute wubiness!
"...neither the stupid jokes nor the easy surface emotions were the truth of Cuthbert Allgood."
yay!
Congratulations Patrick!