Juniper, days 1 and 2

Update! We made it home from the IWK (after our mandatory 6 hour discharge time) at about 1am friday morning - almost exactly 24 hours after Tara had begun contractions. Our first night was pretty good - the three of us all slept like babies. Friday saw lots of visitors, but little Juniper was just happy to be the centre of attention, and was just taking her first 24 hours in stride. The 4 beautiful ladies below nicely represent what our day was like:
Today has been just as nice actually. We got a little less sleep last night (and Juniper discovered that she has nice powerful lungs that she can use now!), but thanks to the efforts of everybody coming by to see us, we were able to grab some zzz's during the day. Mary has been a tremendous help with everything around the house, and I'm currently eating a delicous supper of Thai carrot soup and a lovely nutty roasted vegetable salad that Zsofi whipped up this afternoon after cleaning out our fridge and cleaning the entire kitchen.

Juniper LOVES to sleep. Apparently that's pretty normal, but she sure is cute when she's dosing. Tara managed to snap a few pictures of her napping in my arms out on the deck this evening.
We're just about to go to bed, and there are Natal Day fireworks out over the harbour that we can see from our window. It kind of feels like they're celebrating our new little Juniper.