How About A Baby Announcement?: a house log
Simply thought we should mention that we lately welcomed a new member of the family.
On Friday the 14th at 5:57pm, Clara Kenley Petersik was born with a paint brush in her hand weighing in at 7 lbs 10 oz and measuring 20.5 inches long. We are insanely in love with her. And she and Burger are already best buddies. Seriously, he thinks it is his job to stand guard next to her at all times.
Clara was named after John’s grandmother on his dad’s side. And her middle name, Kenley, is an homage to my dad (Ken) with John’s mom’s maiden name worked in there (Kelley) along with a reference to my strong aunt on my mom’s side named Lee. Gotta enjoy rooms and names that multitask.
We are all home from the hospital and happily settling back into life here at Casa Petersik (there is nothing like a four day hospital stint to make you miss your house like crazy). Yes, we in fact had an extended stay due to a fairly terrifying scare during Clara’s birth (an unexpected placental abruption paired with an umbilical cord prolapse had a slew of wonderful doctors and nurses performing an emergency c-section in under three minutes to ensure that Clara was a-ok). But although her delivery was anything but restful, we are both over the moon that she’s 100% healthy and 1000% adorable (not that we are biased or anything).
And now that we are all back home, Clara truly seems to be enjoying her new surroundings. In short: we feel like two of the luckiest people in the world. And we are so thankful to be able to share this remarkable time in our lives with such wonderful readers. Thank you all for the well wishes that you’ve passed along throughout our big journey to parenthood. We cannot wait to detail all the ways that our house grows and changes to accommodate a little person and we promise to share all the organization, storage, and plain living pointers that we pick up along the way (while tackling even more Hands-on adventures and low-cost-o room makeovers of course).
But now back to our regularly scheduled blogging. We have an excellent house tour to share, so stay tuned…
Psst- We will also be announcing the random winner of the big baby pool (and a $100 West Elm gift card) tomorrow, so stick around.
