Aidan is Here

Another month later and I have lots to report :). Today September 13 was supposed to be my due date but as most of you know, Aidan Samuel Mercado Robichaud was born on August 19 at 9:05 am. He weighed 7 pounds. It was a quick delivery. I checked into the hospital at 8 am :). He is doing great and is such a good baby. I thank God for that. A few days after he was born I had to return to the hospital to get some blood, since it seems I had lost to much. Everything is good now.
Alysia has been a really good older sister. She loves Aidan and wants to help all the time, which can be annoying sometimes. But she is getting better.
Poor Alysia came down with the chicken pox on Tuesday of this past week. I again thank God that it was mild and that she only had two night that were bad. She kept me up all night. Between her and Aidan I got about 2 hours of sleep each night. Aidan is really good and will sleep 3-4 hours between feeding at night. I ended up getting the chicken pox vaccine, since I was unsure if I had ever had it (my mom did not remember either). This way I protect Aidan also.
Yesterday my friends (the Esso wives club) threw a baby shower for Aidan. He got lots of cute stuff :).

I have to say I have really appreciated having a full time maid ever since Aidan was born. She is really good with both my kids and will care for Alysia while I have to go out (since Alysia was home sick). Life has been going really well for me overall and I thank God for it.

Poor Jeff had his first car accident here in Brazil the day after Aidan was born. He was leaving the gated community and did not look right when he was turning and he hit a man on a bicycle. The man is fine, just a few bruises and everything between him and Jeff has been settled between them. Jeff also celebrated his 33rd birthday yesterday (September 12). I finally made him his chocolate cheesecake. He said it was good, not as good as when I cooked it in Canada, but better than the ones he has tasted here. There are lots of reasons why it was not as good, but I will go into the details :).

I wanted to post a pic of Aidan, but for some reason blogger is not letting me do it.

Take care everyone. May God bless you and keep you all safe.