Born July 29th at 11:30 am we are proud to announce the arrival of our second daughter,
Iona (island) Livia (peace) Epp! Her name has a lot of significance to us which I hope to elaborate on later.
What a joy she has already been after 11 days.
A beauty like her big sister and a dream child in so many ways. Content and happy to eat and sleep and poop. Much like her mommy was as a baby, she is sleeping long hours at night which we are so thankful for.
Mikayla is still adjusting to the change with a lot less attention being given to her. She is being spoiled by Grandma now so that is helping a lot.
Mika calls her little sister Yona, and will often come close and stroke her head or body. She loves it when she's awake, "Yona eyes open?" But other times like in the car today Mika said, "No Yona. Yona away." It's a hard change for her but she's doing really well.
I'm recovering slowly it seems. I guess because of the warm weather I just don't want to stay inside! I've been out to a wedding reception, Marlese's and Nelly's both for the afternoon. I was sick with a 12 hr flu two nights ago which really brought me down. I'm still gaining my strength back from that and am trying to rest but of course it's different with two kids.
Nate is away this weekend on a much needed break with his guys. I don't think he's ever done something like this since we got married so it was long overdue. Since my mom is here to help out it was the best time for him to go this summer.
We have a busy summer ahead with packing and moving in August and then travelling to Ontario for a 2 week visit all with a newborn. I am trying not to stress about it but just take one day at a time.
Iona is so sweet. She has a vigorous suck and has started to have longer awake times. She's adorable when she sleeps…always getting her hands out of her wrap and loves to be in bed with me. I forgot how physical being a mother is. I have a lot to say about becoming a mother to a newborn again. There were a few really rough nights where I was up thinking about the change in my life. It's late though, so I will save that for another post.
For now we are excited to be together as a family and stay in this little cocoon of bonding (except for this weekend).
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