Our Baby Girl!

As I type this post from our hotel room, our beautiful baby daughter is sleeping on my lap. She has been kissed and caressed and loved already by all seven of the Leones who have been long awaiting her arrival.

She is absolutely perfect. We are blessed. Her loss, however, is being felt deeply tonight by her birth mother who placed her for adoption in order to give her a better life. We know this first-hand. Joe and I spent a good part of today with her birth mother, and together the three of us cried and cried and cried some more. I plan to journal the details of that meeting for our daughter to read some day. She has a beautiful birth story and a birth mother who loves her deeply.

Okay, here are the updated statistics. The info we had received orally yesterday was slightly off.

Weight: 7 lb, 0 oz
Date & Time of Birth: 5:54 pm, December 11th
Black, curly hair, dark, deep-set eyes.

Her apgar scores were great, and she is very healthy.

And for those awaiting her name and photos...

...You'll have to wait one more night. (Sorry!) We managed to leave our camera-to-computer cable at the home of our new friends —— the family who babysat our children today while we went to the hospital.

Big day tomorrow... Pediatrician appointment, followed by the possibility of the birth mother joining us to meet all our children.

We are deliriously happy. And very, very sleepy. (We drove until 2:00 am last night.) So I'm signing off to head to bed, and I'll provide a more detailed update tomorrow night.

Photos and her name tomorrow, I promise!