Olivia Dawn Jensen has arrived!

Our darling girl is finally here!!!!! It was Monday the 20th when I started having contractions off and on all day, and they got more regular around 5 pm. So, we spent the day/evening just relaxing and having a grand time at home, watching old musicals, and getting really excited to meet Olivia. We headed to the hospital at about 9:30, and found out I was already 6 cm dilated and everything was going well. According to the midwives, it was a "textbook" birth, meaning everything went smoothly and quickly without complications. Our beautiful Olivia came into the world at 1:03 am on September 21st: 8 pounds 6 oz, and 20.5 inches. Right away we noticed her long and thick, dark hair, and it also quickly became apparent was very strong - right away she lifted her head and opened her eyes to check out her surroundings.

It's impossible to describe how wonderful it is to have her with us and to be her parents. I will just say that our lives have been changed forever and she is more amazing than we could have ever hoped for.

Where, oh where can my baby be?

In her cozy little cocoon of course, being fed through a tube and enjoying the good life. Why would anybody in their right mind want to leave that and go out into the rain and cold where you have to breathe air and wear a diaper and put forth an effort in order to get fed.

Or maybe she knows what big hugs and kisses Mommy and Daddy (and everybody else) have in store for her, and she does want to come out but just hasn't quite figured out where the exit is.

Either way, here's hoping something happens this week!

A bit of inspiration

I just read a quote I really like on my Aunt's facebook page (by M. Scott Peck): ‎"The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers."

My Aunt is an inspiration to me because she has faced many difficult trials in her life but still manages not only to stay positive and enthusiastic, but also to keep laughing and smiling and constantly being a light to everyone around her. I hope that I can also take the (very few) difficulties I encounter and learn from them to be positive and keep laughing no matter what.

Time bomb

I wonder what the baby countdown will say when wednesday is over? I keep getting the feeling it will say...3...2...1...BLASTOFF!! Sometimes I do feel a bit like a bomb about to explode, a rocket about to take off, etc. It is nice to know that the time to meet the baby is so close but it's weird not to have control over the day and time that it will take place, and not to really know what it will be like.

My mom got here last week and it's wonderful to have her here! Showing her around Copenhagen for the first time has been a nice distraction from the "time bomb" feeling.

Pictures, as requested...

This is the stroller - it's from Emmanjunga, it's called "Nitro City" and the color is "grey dream" though I think that color is discontinued now. We bought it at Ønskebørn.

Here are the dresses I made....not the prettiest or the most professional ever (notice the ugly seams) but it was fun to make them. I used the same pattern for both, so I have no idea how the pink ended up so much bigger. They are meant to be worn with little onesies (how on earth do you spell that?) and tights. Next project, a boppy pillow!

I didn't make this next one, but it's just cute. So here's a picture.