Welcome, Riley Robert Janzen
Well, my sweet boy, you have FINALLY arrived. It feels like we have been waiting for you for a lifetime, and even though we are SO blessed you arrived two weeks early, it feels like you were years late. Love is a funny thing, darling boy, and although you will think it is silly that we could love you before we even know you, that is how it is. And what a love it is, at only 3 days in. We have only KNOWN you for 3 days, but I think it says SO much about you by how desperately you wanted to join us, just after Christmas. Sweet Riley, you were born two whole weeks early and just could not WAIT to join us. Your Mommy thought she knew what was happening when she thought her water broke on December 27th, but was "assured" by two hospital visits/tests, and two very competent midwives that, in fact, my water had not broken, that it was normal for women to "leak" like this at the end of pregnancy, and that the contractions that I'd been having for days wer...