Happy Birth Day, Maria!

As mentioned previously, Maria made her fast & furious entrance into the world at 10:53am on St. Patrick's Day. Suprisingly enough, the doctor revealed that she had her cord wrapped around her neck TWICE as well as a knot in her cord. Must have been all that moving around she was doing! Ryan quickly cut her cord, they suctioned her mouth, waited for that amazing cry and handed her to me. We snuggled for a bit and then the nurse took her over to get her vitals.Only a few minutes old

An eight pounder! Wow!

In amazement of our new little GIRL!

Proud mama

Proud Daddy

All swaddled up

"I'm not so sure about this outside world!"

Miss Maria

Look! I have BROWN hair! And lots of it.

Did I mention that I'm an Irish baby?!

Mom, Dad & Baby Girl

Lots of kisses for our precious girl

Girls rule!

My little sister holding Lucas' new little sister

Proud parents with their Irish bundle

More kisses for Maria

Aunt Katie

Her first St. Patrick's Day as a Fitzpatrick!

Grandmom

Dobby

Grammy

She was prepared with her "Irish Grandma" button

Grandpa

We were down in labor & delivery for a while.

I got a hospital lunch, which was anything but spectacular. But at that point I was pretty hungry, so I wasn't going to be picky.

Finally, they moved us up to the room where we would be staying.

After we got settled in there, Ryan and one of the nurses took Maria for her first bath.

From the looks of things, she didn't seem too thrilled.

All cleaned up

Katie went and got us Subway.

This is the same thing I ate after I had Lucas.

It tasted so good!

Grandmom & Dobby went home to pick up Lucas from day care and bring him back to the hospital to meet his baby sister.

Father of two!

Ryan holding Lucas & Maria

Now he's got his hands full, literally!

Lucas loving on his little sister

They brought my dinner tray while Lucas was there

His eyes went straight to cake that was on the tray

So we decided we would all sing "Happy Birthday" to Maria

and Lucas could eat the cake

He was very excited about that!

First Family of Four pic!

Overall, Lucas was not too interested in his baby sister

He was more interested in what was on Daddy's phone

Our big boy and our little girl!

As Lucas and the rest of the gang were leaving,

"Uncle" Marty & "Uncle" Neil arrived.

Neil had a special bib made for Maria

Love it!

What a wonderful day to celebrate the arrival of Maria surrounded by our family & friends!