Well it's been a while.... life has been super crazy busy as you can imagine Freyja entered our lives in dramatic King fashion! After being ten days late, and enduring 15 hours of labor with mom (most of it with her sideways), she was finally born on June 2nd at 11pm. It was a wonderful natural birth and we were very blessed to be able to have her at the Juneau Family Birth Center , but quickly realized that she was having difficulty breathing. Within an hour of her birth we were in triage at Bartlett hospital's emergency room. Amber and Freyja were medivaced to Providence Medical Center in Anchorage to the NICU for a week and a half for treatment for pneumonia and Pulmonary Hypertension of the Newborn, or PPHN.
This photo was our first one after she was born and came with us to Anchorage and lived in her little bed so she could be close to her sister.
While being born with pneumonia is very rare when there were no other labor complications, we were very grateful to have such wonderful care in such a professional facility. Freyja received a week of IV antibiotics to treat her pneumonia and her PPHN resolved itself once her lungs were able to function fully. She is now in perfect health and we are all happy to have her home with us.
Due to our delay in coming home it took us most of July to adjust to our new routine, Mary Jane and Michael did lots of steelhead fishing and Mary Jane thankfully had fine arts camp the first week we were in Anchorage which was a blessing in disguise. We scrapped our family vacation to Seattle as we were not in any shape to go trapsing around Washington at the end of June, but will use our tickets some other time when it's more practical. We did take the ferry to Petersburg for the fourth of July which was a great trip with friends, and lots and lots of kids among us and a nice break before I started back to work in July.
I went back full time in September with seven trainings, three trips and a ton to do to finish the fiscal year oh, and MJ was in Kelly and Scott's wedding (meet my mini-bride!! insert shrill drama here), and I was their florist. It was beautiful and I think someday I'd like to work with more flowers again and MJ was adorable and danced for four hours solid and did everything to a T as expected.
So we spent the entire month of October entering data from all my trips and trainings and cleaning (or un-burying my house) from all the travel and wedding debris..
So now here we are in November, still working but now only 30 hours a week, mostly from 4-8am and then during pre-school hours, Freyja's doing well, but she's certainly one of the loudest members of the family and her little blue eyes and strawberry blond hair are quite convincing.
Now we're cooking lots of cupcakes, running to dance class or pre-school, never sleeping and always have plenty to keep us busy... bring on the holidays!
