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Happy Birthday Natalie!

Guess who made her grand arrival into the world today? I'm not exaggerating in the least either. I was scheduled for an induction that started yesterday and she waited until 12:31 this morning to arrive right as a 7.9 magnitude earthquake hit! Of course, no one in the delivery room even noticed the earthquake because a baby was flying through the air (slightly joking?). It was just when everyone's phones starting going off with tsunami alerts that we found out what chaos she caused on arrival. There was also a tsunami wave *in* the delivery room, but that's another story...

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Right after she was born, I was cuddling with her while Matt was trying to get ahold of my sister to make sure the boys were ok. Everyone was worried because the phone alert was encouraging costal areas to seek higher ground, but given our house is at about 300' elevation, I wasn't worried at all. Just getting some newborn cuddles from a slightly ticked off baby.

I totally failed at getting many photos of her today. In my defense, I had been in labor for almost 16 hours and was pretty exhausted. And there was a bit of chaos after she was born that's for a future post. Needless to say, she is beautiful and we love her so much. If the rest of her life is like her entrance into this world, we are going to have our hands full with this one!