On Friday night, Josh and Elise drove the the hospital to see if it was time to have a baby. They arrived around 11:00. At 12:49, Elise had given birth to a beautiful little girl. Congrats guys!

The fun thing is that Josh and I were on the phone every few hours on Friday, starting around 8:00. We talked a few times beteween 8 and 11 when they headed to the hospital and he called at 1:30 a.m. or so to deliver the news.

Christine and I were sleeping in Bellville, but we woke up, and listened to the voice mail… a couple of times. We were so excited for them. I stayed awake until 3:00 or so, just thinking of how cool things must be for them right then… and how tired they should be, but that I bet they couldn’t really sleep either… not with a brand spanking new baby and all 😉

Then, on Saturday when Josh and I spoke mid-morning, they still hadn’t named the baby. I told him they had 24 hours from the baby’s birth to find a name.

As I understand it, Josh wanted one name, and Elise wanted another… so, they compromised and went back to the tried and true: Maly (pronounced “Maylee”). Maly is the name Josh used to announce that they were pregnant, because it means “small” in Czech.

Maly Elizabeth Janicek.

Since we were in Bellville to see the whole family, we couldn’t really make it to the hospital in Austin until Sunday. But, when we got back to Austin on Sunday, we dropped Jack off with the neighbors and headed up to the hospital to see their new baby girl.

Maly is beautiful, and already full of spunk (at least I think that’s what I smelled when I held her). She’s tiny, like all babies, and has the cutest little fingers and toes. She’s all Josh… in that she looks a lot like him, and he’s totally smitten with her. And she’s as big a ham as he is.

Before Maly was born, Josh would tell me about how he was really worried about having to change the poopy diapers… I kept telling him he’d be fine and that “they’re different when it’s your child” and that he’d be able to do it. Sure enough, he’s making me proud and has changed almost all of the poopy diapers in the hospital so far (so Elise can rest and get better).

Josh is so funny. He confessed to me that he’s going to plan on scaring the living crap out of any boys that show up on his front door asking for his daughter. I told him we’d have to train Jack to be Josh’s “eyes and ears” when Maly is out of his sight some day. I can already see Jack taking care of his “little sister” in 15 or 16 years.

Elise is doing really good. She told us she wasn’t in much pain, and that she’s only taken a few ibuprofen since the labor, and then she only took that because the nurses kept asking her if she needed anything for the pain… so she just took them to shut up the nurses. Mom and baby are learning how to breast feed, and from what we heard, they’re doing pretty good at it!

Congrats to the first time parents! We can’t wait to bring Jack over to meet Maly as soon as he’s not coughing and full of bugers guys!

Here are more photos of Maly from Sunday.

post script: Josh called “girl” from the beginning. Can’t wait to see the baby in her iPod onesie.

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