Welcome Lily!

I have a new niece: Lily Patricia Matczak! !
7 lbs. 10 oz., 19 in. long.
She has 1o fingers and 10 toes and lots of dark hair; little lips, rosy complexion and the infamous "Matczak" (i.e. wide) nose!

She was born on the same day (July 26) as her cousin, Kate, and a day before her parents' anniversary!

I'm sure my mom (Pat) almost wet her pants when they told her. In her defense, my dad already has two grandchildren named after him (William Bernard and Jack Bernard), my deceased aunt has two (McKenzie Mary and Mary Madeleine) and one is after my grandmother (Kathleen Alice). Heck, one has our family name (Robert Matczak) and another is named after a country (John Ireland). My mom, never one to be subtle, always made it well known that "Patricia Ann" was still not taken when my siblings would throw around potential baby names. Like all 11 others, she'll spoil this one extra rotten.



Lily had lots of visitors at the hospital, including her cousins Isabella and Ben, and twin siblings, Jack and Elle. I heard they seemed to like her in the hospital, but we'll see how they feel about her when she is at THEIR house, playing with THEIR toys, taking away from THEIR attention. That could be interesting!
She is going home today and will probably have lots of visitors. She's a cutie pie!! Of course, I am a little biased...