Introducing...

BETSY!!

Though you may go ahead and call her the Ironman World Champion for the year 2035.

Miss Elizabeth Claire was born on March 2nd at 3:01pm...weighing in at 7lbs 11oz and 21.5 inches long.

It was a lot of hard work...with 27+ hours of labor...of which 25.5 was done without the use of an epidural. Yes...27+ hours...this girl is already an endurance athlete and a glutton for pain. [Abridged version: I had planned to go completely natural, but due to little miss thing being sunny side up causing horrific back labor...and then she was a compound delivery to boot with her arm and back shoulder coming out with her head...uhmm...ouch.]

See? Here I am. Working hard. Or am I hardly working?

But in the end, it was worth the hard work and we couldn't be happier with our little bundle of perfection!

We're still getting used to each other, and we haven't broken her yet...so we must be doing something right.

I think we're going to keep her. ;)