First snow of the season

Here is picture I took today from our balcony. Our first snow of the season.

Recent pictures

Suri is just chillin with Grandma. Luis' family says Suri looks just like her grandma.
Isn't our little princess so beautiful!!!!

Saying Bye to Grandma. :-( Q'Orianka was so sad to see grandma leave. Still is still asking for her every morning.

Q'Orianka just can't get enough of holding her little sister. All day long she wants to hold her.

Registering Suri

Well, Luis and I went today to register Suri at the local Health Department, so we could get a birth certificate and a SSN card. They have never had anyone come in to register a homebirth before, so needless to say. They weren't the friendliest of people. I had tried on more than one occasasion to get the paperwork from them before hand, but they wouldn't give it to me. I won't go into details, but they did remember me from my previous visits.

They tried to give us the run around, but I just walked all over the lady and told her we were here to register a homebirth and Luis caught the baby. Registering her wasn't as painful as I thought it would be, based on my previous experience with this particular health department. According to our midwife, other health departments are much better to dealing with this issue since they have dealt with homebirths, (we have several, Amish and Mennonite communities here.) The lady at the health department implied we'd have a problem with the paperwork, but I don't think so. They just haven't moved into the 21st century.

As a side note.. the Health Department was as old if not older then Glenn Edwards in Lincoln. Sad, huh!!

Also, we changed the baby's name to Suri, it seemed to fit her better. I don't remember what it means, I'll have to ask Luis.

Our Homebirth

The newest member of the Palomino Family has FINALLY arrived. Zisary (pronounced 'Sesary') Lucero Sloan Palomino. YAHOOO!!!!

On 11/20 @ 11:06am. She weighed 7 lbs 14 oz and is 19 1/2 inches. It was a wonderful experience having our baby a home. Luis and I are so greatful to our wonderful midwife Wanda and her assistant Crystal. It was such a blessing to be able to meet them and share this wonderful experience with them. We are also so thankful for Aprill's mom who was able to come and share this moment with us. Q'Orianka has be loving having Grandma here, and they have really bonded which is just what we had hoped for, so she would be happy and content during the birth.

Q'Orianka loves her baby sister and wants to smother her and her mom with hugs and kisses. She hasn't quite figured out that there is not a baby in her mom's belly anymore, but having a baby in the house distracts her from kissing and hugging Aprill's belly too much. :-)

The following are pictures from the birth.

Here is Zisary 24 hours old. Isn't she beautiful!!!

Here's Wanda, Zisary and Aprill, moments after Zisary was born.

Zisary's first exam.

Hangin' with Grandma

Grandma and I are designing pretty things on her computer.

I love watching TV with Grandma.

Don't I look so pretty. Grandma is fixing my hair.

Sleep or Eat?

Q'Orianka can't decide if she wants to eat or sleep more. Isn't she so cute!!!!

Obama Wins the Election

Luis is very excited since Obama won the election. I think if will be very interesting to see what happens the next four years.