happy birthday, lark

today has been an amazing day. we're elated, exhausted, and a lot of other things all at once.

i'll be blogging mostly on silver spring youngling, but i wanted to have a few posts and pics here.

5:45 am this morning...getting ready to load the car

around noon today. what an amazing feeling.

first time holding her for an extended period...around 10:00am

...she then had a first bath at 10:30am

getting ready to transfer from the recover room to the post-partum room, ~ 12:30