A Busy Few Weeks

Here is another post from Maya's Mother Land

Hopefully you will see all the activities that have gone on since the last post and will understand why it has been so long.

Here are a few pictures of our latest celebrity. Everywhere we go people love to stop us and look at our baby. Then they love her even more when they find out she is Mexicana.

Here are a few of Maya with her loving brothers

Hyrum is really starting to love his baby sister.

And here she is with a couple of her compatriots.

Kim Arcila

Daniella Arcila

Jenn has been superwoman. She hosted a lunch for all the other American wives ("The Wives Club") shortly after her c-section.

Here are Kirtlyn and Hyrum with a few of the new American kids in our Stake. (Yes, Hyrum has a headless Superman hanging by the cape in his mouth...he is in a comedic stage)

And a highlight of this time has been Grandma Anna and Aunt Trisha coming to visit from Mesa, AZ. The kids were so happy to see them.

Hyrum instantly looks older here.

Grandma Anna brought presents for everyone...shoes for the kids, clothes for Maya, and brown sugar for Jennifer and Thomas.

We went to Tarasco's to get Tacos al Pastor (You can see the meat cooking on the other side of the man in the blue shirt, notice the pineapple on top).

We also went to Tonola to get some typical Mexican shopping done. There, there is a good restaurant where you can get the best Mole (Thomas' plate), and the best Enchiladas (Jenn's plate)

Kirtlyn is the only one that we could get to sit next to the skeleton. But even she wanted to keep her distance.

HAVE A GOOD DAY!

Meet Miss Maya!!

We found internet in the hospital so we decided to share the photos we have.

Here is Jenn right when we got here. Obviously this is before the birth. The hospital is Hospital Country 2000. It is very Catholic, along with everything else in Mexico. The staff is very nice and very professional. Jenn says that this is her best post-c-section recovery. She compliments the doctors for that. We have been here for about 24 hours and have seen 6 doctors come in and out to check on her and the baby. If we need something, we can go talk to the doctor, who is in the nurses station, instead of asking the nurse, who then would have to call the doctor, who might not respond. Of course this is a private hospital that really knows how to treat the customer.
The doctors were great, they let me look over their shoulders and they explained everything. I had just finished my surgery class the day before so I was able to keep up with what they were doing.
Maya did great, but she was not happy to come into all that light.
Don't make the incubator worry you, all the babies spend ~4 hours in there to acclimate themselves to this new world.

Room 209, Time of Birth 3:10

This is Jenn right when they brought her back. She is doing great!
Babies stay in the nursery here all night and in the mother's room all day. So here she is through the nursery window.
Here are Annie and Tammi, they stayed with the kids all night last night while I stayed with Jenn. They really are a great blessing to our family.

Hyrum is mildly excited that he has a new sister. Thomas is the most interested. He is just so amazed at how small everything is. And he is excited that Hyrum is not the smallest in the family anymore. Kirtlyn is the most excited to take her home and get started mothering her. She is also the most concerned for Jenn. She had a lot of questions about the surgery and how they fixed the hole in Jenn's tummy.

Here is Maya. If any of you can suggest a good middle name, we are open. We have discussed Lorraine, Marie, and Susanna. We are not sure what color eyes she has yet. Jenn has brown, but all our kids have blue. Maya is also the first baby to have dark hair. The other kids' was so light that they looked bald. Thomas kept saying that she has short, dark, boy hair.

We are so glad to have this new angel in our lives. Maya will definitely fit right in.