ilane xochitl

Finally! She's here!

Ilane Xochitl arrived Wednesday, Sept. 14th at 7:03pm. (two days before 40 weeks--but I was so miserable the previous 2.5 weeks or so, it was wayyy past time)

7lbs, 2 oz, 19.75 inches long.

It only took us a day to name her :)

Quicker labor than Xaris Sofia's, but a little bit of pitossin was administered, and my water had to be broken (didn't appear it was planning on breaking on it's own--just like her older sister!)

I don't know what it's like back home, but in TX they keep moms and babies in the hospital for something like 3 days (and other more insulting laws, like a mandatory 1st AND 3rd Trimester HIV test). We stayed the full time with Xaris--nothing pressing that we needed to get home for, but this time around I was anxious to be home and with Xaris (although she had a ball with Gramama and Tayta--even made up a song the morning we went to the hospital: "bye bye mama". Repeat.) We asked to go home early, and they decided all was fine and they could let us go after the baby had been there 24 hours and passed her newborn screen. Yay for a healthy girl, we've been home since last night!

24 hours old---ready to go home!

Darker eyes than Xaris, but lighter hair--looks like she has brown hair with red highlights!

Full of sweetness

Love from papa

And big sister

We love our sweet girl!

P.S. The name. It's pronounced

eee la nay

so cheet (the l can be pronounced if you can handle it :)

Here's the story.

We've been updating the nursery. Changing colors, moving furniture, etc to make it a two girl room. I took down the birds that were Xaris' theme, and ordered a vinyl tree with cherry blossom flowers and X and I were talking about putting a big tree on the wall, with lots of flowers. When it came, we took a couple days to put it up, and Xaris loved the new "arbol con muchas flores!!" (tree with LOTS of flowers). We saved a branch for over the crib and a few flowers to decorate that side of the wall, and Xaris knew that the big tree by the big bed was hers, and the little branch above the crib was for sister-baby.

Well, that was last week. During that week, anytime I asked X for name suggestions for the coming baby, her only offering was "Arbol con muchas flores". So, while we were in the naming process we decided to let Xaris name her baby sister.

Ilan is Hebrew for "tree" (we added the "e" to make it a more feminine name).

Xochitl is Aztec (ric's roots) for "flower"

And that's the story. :)