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Sorry it took so long. Life is certainly a blur! :-)

We are all doing fine. At her ten day check up she had already passed her birth weight by almost 3 oz. and grown half an inch. She still sleeps pretty well as long as I stay away from chocolate and tomatoes...this sounds vaguely familiar....hopefully her stomach won't be as sensitive as Nicolai's is.

Okay, got to run. Chris and Jody are coming for the weekend. Lots to do!

:-D

Have a great weekend!

MMT

P.S. There are 4 photos in my rooms for those who don't have facebook, and mom is planning on posting photos too sometime.

Ivy Elizabeth Tosti arrived this afternoon around 2:20 p.m. weighing in at 7 lbs. 5 oz. Pictures will come later. She looks like Nicolai, but without all the hair.

We are all doing well. Everything went smoothly. I think labor lasted 6 hours or so.

I miss Nicolai, but he is fine from what we hear. Lee will get to see him tonight. NY State policy won't let him visit in the hospital during flu season, no exceptions. :-( Hopefully we'll go home tomorrow sometime though.

Thanks for caring!

MMT

It's been ages since I updated, so here is a summary: we've moved to NY State to the Watertown area. A small congregation up here has asked us to come and work with them, and we are excited to be here! We look forward to getting to know everyone.

We arrived Monday night, and if all goes well we'll move in to our rental house this weekend. We sign papers tomorrow afternoon. :-) Since we have been sharing houses with kind people and living out of suitcases since the middle of September this is VERY thrilling news. We are staying with some wonderfully kind people until then.

There is snow everywhere which is beautiful. I think I heard that we have around 14 inches on the ground, but I may have heard wrong. It's definitely more than we commonly see in the South. It's very nice to see white instead of brown in my opinion (I say that now anyway). ;-)

My pregnancy has been uncomplicated so far and we pray it continues that way. We still don't know the baby's gender. I haven't needed another ultrasound and don't want to pay for one out of pocket just to find out early if the baby is a boy or girl, so we'll find out sometime the end of February. :-) I don't have a doctor/midwife here yet, but I have some I intend to contact and even a recommendation. Hopefully that transition will go smoothly and I'll find someone that works well for me/us.

Lee's parents are coming to visit and help out around the time the baby is expected to come. That will be a wonderful blessing I'm sure. Nicolai will enjoy it immensely, and hopefully it will help him transition into being a big brother.

I guess that's it for now. It's still surreal that we're actually going to settle somewhere and we're not just on another road trip. It is such a blessing to no longer be nomads, at least for a time. :-)

Have a wonderful month!

Love,

MMT

There are a few recent pictures of Nicolai in my "rooms" for those interested.

I need to be packing for our trip. We head out tomorrow around noon and will be gone about 3.5 weeks visiting some churches that might ask us to work with them.

As many of you know mom's mom died this week. Tough for us, happy for her. Never dreamed both my grandmothers would die in the same year, but we have many happy memories, and trust they are in a much better place. What a blessing to have hope!

Got to run.

Have a great month of November!

:-)

MMT

Are tickers only allowed for gold users?

If not, I have no clue how to add this to my sidebar:


Any ideas?

Thanks!

MMT