Here's a short video of some of Josephine's daily activity. Sorry its a bit dark.

Here are some close-ups from day 4. Josephine is getting into a good poop, eat, sleep, repeat pattern. We are having fun as new parents discovering her little quirks. She sleeps more during the day right now than at night, so we've been up a bit, but are not too tired yet. Alicia's milk come in so there's more for Josephine to eat. Check out the first one where she is wiped out on milk, then she sleeps. She has discovered and loves her hands, which she's always trying to keep near her face.

Josephine Supernavage Henry was born on August 5th at 16:37 at the University of Washington Medical Center, weighing in at 4 lbs 6 oz. 

At my prenatal visit last Friday, my blood pressure was a little high.  I took it easy over the weekend but had a terrible headache on Tuesday.  My midwife had me come in and did some blood work.   My blood pressure had gone up since Friday.  She said she would get the test results and consult with an OB.  She called at 9am the next morning and told me that I needed to go to UW right away to start an induction. 

Brian and I went to UW to start the induction on Wednesday morning.  It was a total surprise to have the plan change so quickly.  I started  on IVs and medicine to get me ready to deliver.  By Thursday morning I was having contractions.  My blood pressure was checked and I was allowed to move around the room.  I sat on a birth ball and my water broke around noon.  Very quickly the contractions changed and got much more intense.  I moved on the ball for an hour and a half and then moved into the tub.  Again, things changed quickly and was ready to push in an hour.  As I was in the tub, they kept pumping me with blood pressure medicine.  I got onto the bed and started to push.  Her heart rate kept dropping and my blood pressure kept rising dramatically every time I pushed.  To avoid a very fast emergency c-section, they used a vacuum as she crowned to get her out. 

She's very healthy- just small.  She was born just a few days shy of her due date.  She's eating, sleeping and pooping.  We are home now and grateful that the drama happened in a safe location. 

Thank you to everyone for your support!

Sorry we haven't posted in a while!  We have had some problems creating new posts.  Hopefully we'll be able to get a post up soon. 

Thanks!

Cat came to visit this week, which was super awesome and fun. We had amazing birthday, solstice, baby shower festivities. We all watched the Wold Cup US soccer game Friday, then met up to watch the England game at lunch. Then we took a rest and headed out to Elysian Fields for dinner and the Mariner's game. All and all, a great birthday. Sat. Cat, Alicia and I all participated in the Solstice Parade naked bike ride. Alicia's tummy looked beautiful as a fish bowl with a red fish. After a nice lunch at Essential Baking we watched the parade and headed home for a restful evening, which included a bad romatic comedy.

Sunday we had the baby shower hosted by Cat, Keren, Talia and Meghan. Cat made a ton of super delicious food. My favorite was the spicy shrimp. Alicia and I were touched by having all our friends come out to support us. People made us creatively decorated picture frames for the baby's room. There were fun baby/family pictures of Alicia and I set up to have funny comments added to them. Alicia looked stunning in a new dress she got shopping with Cat. It was an epic weekend!

Awesome adventure weekend! We escaped the coldest summer in Seattle history (never before have so many days past on the calendar without the mercury hitting 75 F) to hit the hot, sunny eastern Washington. Going our furthest yet in eastern Wash. we stayed in Moses Lake for my first triathalon. It was a great time, the park was beautiful, the water was pretty warm, the desert-style (with farming) landscape was amazing with Cascade mountains in the back ground, and the run was hot with a view of the lake. It turns out a wetsuit is a partial floatation device designed to make you swim faster. Running shorts will make your butt hurt a lot after 22 miles biking. Alicia was a fabulous supporter, cheering for everyone at every turn (six of us raced). We then had pub food with US soccer, lounging on the grass by the cool lake, a radiator explosion (in our friends '87 Subaru) after which we limped into Cle Elem, a gorgeous camp site by a wild river with burgers and a fire, tasty bunch at a yellow church, the historic mining town of Roslyn, and then home. Our garden passed the soil test so we had fresh lettuce tonight and baby carrots. Here's a photo of Alicia making salads.

It was a busy week after coming back from our relaxing trip. Thursday was our anniversary. Alicia and I have been married 4 years, whoohoo! We went to Dinette Sat. for an amazing fancy dinner. It was a very cute, comfortable place, but also bright, airy and elegant. It was great to get back to Capital Hill. We loved the food. The weather was beautiful Sat. for what seemed like the first time in a year. Gorgeous sunset as we were leaving dinner. We've had a lot of very cool, rainy days. In other news on Sat. I went for a long run and Alicia and I worked in the yard. I'm getting excited about the Moses Lake triathalon next week. I've learned wet suits are not very comfortable and extremely hard to put on. I hope I've trained enough and that the weather is good. Sun. we had Alicia's work friends over for dinner. I tried a new grill sauce, which was pretty good, especially with fresh peas from the farmer's market. Here's an awesome shot of Alicia looking very beautiful as we head out to dinner Sat. Then a casual shot of her nesting with baby clothes.

We've had a busy few weeks.  My parents came to visit.  Brian retiled and rebuilt the bathtub.  We went camping near Lake Chelan. 

Here are some photos for the fans

Happy Mother's Day! So today was the prenatal Mom's Day for Alicia, very excited. Call it coincidence but it was a great photo shoot day. Or maybe Alicia is just getting used to being the star. We have several fun images. The first is "Alicia loves cottage cheese at all times, but especially with child". It was also an inspirationally amazing weekend in Seattle where we had lots of sunshine and warmish weather after 2-3 brutal, rainy, cold weeks. So, we have shots in the garden and by the flowers, of which we have a beautiful array of different mature flowering bushes. Pretty cool. In other news this weekend Alicia and I watched movies and ate tasty dinners. I worked on the bathroom tiling project and did some running. It is very satisfying to remove all the ugly tiles and plywood walls in your shower to reveal 68 year old house frame. No time capsule or wads of cash, sorry. Alicia had woman, baby time too walking, talking and watching the awesome global baby movie that just came out--very cute I hear. I also learned more about bike tires as I inexplicably ripped through three tubes in two days, which drove me crazy--only to learn Sunday that my three year old tires are riddled with gashes from glass, rock and other gritty Seattle street debris. Thus the swiss cheese tires. Anyway, enough chatter. Enjoy the photos.

We were sad to see Emmy go, but it was a good week. Alicia and I relaxed. On Sat. I helped my friend Brennan move to a new apartment. Alicia and I met up at our friend Dani's May Day picnic. May Day is also opening day for boating in Seattle, which is much cooler than it sounds. There is a big boat parade and everyone celebrates and watches the boats, and generally welcomes spring/summer, or whatever you want to call it in Seattle. We have had a wet spring, and cold. Sat. night we went to see Date Night, which was pretty awesomely funny. It was a good date night, we had tasty burgers at Five Guys afterward. Sun. Alicia did yard work while I finished painting the basement. The picture shows her resting in the afternoon. Busy week ahead.