Meet Isabella

Isabella Nicolette Brady January 23, 2010 5:03pm. Welcome Monkey!!
This is a couple of hours after she was born. It was a beautiful moment even though we hadn’t slept in almost two days and she was about to be moved to a different hospital in preparation for her heart surgery.

With mommy at the next hospital

Sophia holding Bella for the first time since giving birth two days before.

Me holding her (and trying not to weep!) for the first time ever.

The whole family (minus Eugene the kitten with Melissa the kitty sitter) together the night before surgery.

Bella had her surgery this morning and it went great! We’re not quite through this yet but right now we are both being guided by a (difficult to articulate) profound, glorious and almost aching love.
But fuck, we’re tired! (Exhibit A: see my face above.)
Now, before anyone gets the idea that I’m going soft, I would like to mention our daughters middle name: Nicolette. While it is lovely to the eye and the ear it’s translation in Greek is:
People’s Victory




Since we’ve got the whole family here, we might as well bring in Mr. Eugene:

The new website could be up this week. Comments are closed due to a spam/hacking situation, but I can be reached at the usual email options.
Full of Love
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