Five Weeks and Five Years

This week Rosy turned five weeks and I passed the five-year mark of living in Slovakia. There is much to be said about both of these things and, correspondingly, much time necessary to do so which I do not now have, so instead I bring you the much-anticipated (by my eleven faithful readers : ) picture post about becoming a family of four. Enjoy...    



The morning of the big day

My sister-in-law came in on one of her precious few days off to deliver our little bundle of joy. It was a perfect birth if ever there was one. Your prayers carried me through an unbelievably smooth and short labor and on into a tearfully joyful welcome of our darling little flower. To all of you who prayed for us, I will never be able to thank you enough. It meant so much.

Lily meets Rosy

 Lily took it all in stride, like she does everything. You would have thought she actually understood all those months when we told her her sister was in my belly and would be coming soon.

Say whaaaaaaaaat?

I had been looking forward to this picture ever since I found out I was pregnant



Coming home



We took advantage of a sunny morning to have a little photo shoot and I'm so glad we did. We didn't see sun again for weeks, I don't think. And cloudy-day photos ain't much to write home nor blog about, if you know what I mean.

   

The following pictures are more precious than gold to me. My angels.

And this is about as far as I get from home nowadays. A local supermarket about four minutes' walk away. I feed Rosy and then hurry up and take Bug out for eight minutes of fresh air.  

Saturday mornings. Best friends



Our first haircut.

Like my mom before me, I saved the little ringlet from the back of her neck, of course. My little girl is growing up.

First Thanksgiving as a four-person family. The fact that we had one is a testament to how good of a baby Rosy is.

Fashionista



Tomáš' go-to method of grabbing a little him time

Looking at pictures on Daddy's mobile, which Lily inexplicably calls a l'ubol

Daddy and Lily 2010



Daddy and Rosy 2012



What our mornings look like



Sleepy head



I adore this picture.

Going out to help Daddy sweep snow from the car

Lily loves to scour the ads looking for dogs and cats and she finds every single one, right down to the teeny tiny ones on cans of pet food.

I had to take some quick snaps of the sunlight. We're pretty starved for it lately.

So that's about it. Thanks for reading and following and cheering us on. More to come as the sunlight permits. We now have two more glorious weeks of Tomáš at home with us for the holidays. He will tease me about the use of the word glorious there, I'm sure. But I'm looking very forward to it. Happy pre-Christmas weekend to you!