Growing Our Little Lady: Welcome Lily Katherine Dow!!

Well, I know it has been a while since I've updated the blog so here goes!! Life has changed incredibly for us in the last three weeks. Lily Katherine Dow was born on September 14th at 2:48pm weighing in at 7lbs 2oz. and measuring 20 inches! Just two days before her official due date, my water broke in the middle of the night on the 13th! When we arrived at the hospital I wasn't really having many contractions (not painful ones at least!) so they ended up starting Pitocin to get the contractions going. It's kind of ironic that after all of the weeks we spent trying to prevent contractions, when it finally came down to it....we had to use medication to get the contractions going!! Anyhow, things moved along pretty well and by mid afternoon on the 14th, I got an epidural (which was fantastic!) and within a few hours we had our little Lily!!
Life has been pretty hectic and crazy since we came home....but it has been absolutely wonderful at the same time! She is officially 3 weeks old today! Lily has been eating well and doing lots of sleeping, peeing, pooping, burping....and crying!! She is quite a feisty little woman - not surprising considering the way she acted while she was inside ;-) She definitely lets us know when she needs something, and has no problem with being too quiet...haha...her cry is loud (kind of like her parents' voices!) We are starting to settle into more of a routine in the past few weeks, and we are very lucky that Lily tends to sleep quite well at night. She even gave me a straight 4 hours of sleep last night!!!
I will post some pictures - we have taken soooo many that it would take up way too much space if I posted even a tiny percentage of them!! She is quite a beauty (though i might be biased!) and definitely has red hair which is so much fun! We feel like she looks a lot like both me and Tom....but mostly she just looks like Lily!! ;-) Here are some pics so you can decide for yourself!!!
Hope everyone is doing well - we are slowly feeling ready for more visitors....sometimes I'm just too tired to have much socialization during the day....but we will make sure that everyone gets to meet Lily soon!
Lots of love,
Tom, Katie and Lily

Just born....Happy Mama and baby

Proud Grandpa - Dad was so happy to meet Lily on her birthday...he had to leave for my cousin's wedding the next morning! Lily has impeccable timing!

Happy Uncle Brian!

Lily looking unsure about the bottle feeding they were giving her due to some low blood sugars right after delivery....you can tell she has red hair though!