Baby Anna

Today my parents and I tended Mary while my brother stayed with his wife (also her parents) at the hospital.  For awhile it looked and felt grey.  We got an update on the baby's low oxygen issue and found out it was a syndrome some cesarean babies can have that they basically get over.  And Anna so far has gotten over it!  But her mommy was doing worse and worse.  She went into surgery this afternoon.  And they fixed her!  But she is in horrible pain and only been able to see her baby twice, which to me would be so hard among all of it.

Now that I'm home I want to just go to bed and say a prayer of gratitude and try to shake the sadness of thinking of my sweet SIL in so much pain.  But I've decided that I should also celebrate the miracle of Anna!  When I held her I cried.  So here are some pics:

Grandma introduces Mary to her new baby sister.  Mary said, "Oh, she's so cute."

Grandma and Anna

Me holding Anna - before I started crying, I think

My brother with his new daughter

Little Anna

There is just one more picture I want to put on here and it is not of baby Anna.  When Mary is around she liked to take pictures so I let her use my camera and I end up with camera full of thirty random shots of parts of people and objects.  But she gets my mom sometimes and I think she takes the best pictures of my mom.  It's as if my mom is so delighted to see her that all this love and radiance just opens up when she sees the little shutterbug.  Here's an example:

My mom aka Mary and Anna's grandma