Our Little June Bug (this blog has lots of pics! )

Junu is now 20 days old, and too cute to put into words. She is always wide eyed, and just hangs out as a happy baby for hours at a time. Sunil and I have the most fun talking to her, singing, and dancing for her. She smiles all the time, and loves to have her hair played with.

Our June Bug! :)

Our Little Super star

We learned that she doesn’t nap/sleep so well unless she is bundled up like a caterpillar in a little cocoon. However, June isn’t so fond of having her arms all lock inside her blanket, and its funny to watch her wiggle her way out. (A special thanks out to Uncle Eric for the wrap blankets. I would be a sleepless mother right now without them.)


On Saturday, March 20, 2010, Sunil and I had a little ceremony at home for Junu. In the Hindu religion its called puja, and is more or less like giving her a blessing in the Christian religion. Very religious Hindus would have a priest come and do a full on ceremony singing mantras and chants. But, Sunil and I are more spiritual people who wanted to have a little ceremony to thank the Gods for sending us this little Goddess, so we decided to just do puja for Junu at home. Here are some pictures of our little ceremony!






Here is a fun video of June crying. I thought since no one has met her, you haven’t heard her adorable cry either. So, her is her little whine and cry.




In 2 days we go to Mumbai to get Junu her U.S. passport. Even though she was born in India, she will have dual citizenship, American and Nepali. She might possibly also have Indian residency, but we are still looking into that. We are a little nervous about our big trip to the city with our tiny baby, but we have to go to declare her birth and make sure that she is registered as American. Wish us luck and keep us in your thoughts during this big trip.

I wanted to say Thank You to everyone who gave Junu and me presents to help us prepare for her arrival. I am surprised at how prepared I was, and I owe it all to all of you who gave us gifts as well as money. We used the money given to Junu to help pay for the hospital bill, and thanks to all the thoughtful presents, we haven’t had to purchase a single thing for June. Im serious, not a single thing! Not a diaper, or wet wipe, or binkie, or blanket. Nothing! We love our cloth diapers, and thanks to my wise older sister who is a mother of 3, she stocked me up with everything that I would need as a new mother. Honestly, we are very blessed, and I want you all to know how much we appreciate your thoughtful gifts!

Here are some fun pictures of our little home in Goa. Sunil sold his motorcycle so that we could bring Junu home to nice apartment instead of a little hotel room. I am very grateful to him for this gift to Junu and I. Simply put, I would be miserable anywhere else, and I owe it all to my amazing boyfriend! He cooks delicious meals for me everyday, and really enjoys his time playing with Junu (even when she is hungry and crying)! I am very fortunate to have such an amazing partner and father for our little June Bug.

This is my washer (the 2 buckets) and drier (the sun):)

June is hanging out in our hanging chair

June chilling out in our Chill Out area

Our GIANT kitchen!

The Balcony. We spend most of our time out here!

The is our amazing bathroom! We even have a bathtub! (you can kinda see it in the mirror)

The bedroom

Junu has arrived!!

Of all the new experiences, this one tops them all. I am now a mother of a little baby girl named Junu Paige Percival Gurung. She is the most precious, adorable, little jewel in the world. I have never felt such strong love for anything in the entire world. She is my world, and there is no way to describe all the emotions you feel when you become a mom. This is definitely the biggest change, challenge, and adventure in my life! And since the moment I first heard her cry I felt something inside me change. She is my world, and I would sacrifice everything for her!

Junu entered this world on March 6, 2010 at 2:10pm in the Holy Cross Ramanso Hospital in Mapusa, Goa, India. She was 3.25 kg (about 8 lbs), with a full head of black hair, long fingers and toes, and the most beautiful eyes. Unfortunately I had to have a C-section because June was ready to come out, but my body was not ready for labor. In some ways I feel like I missed out on the whole labor experience, but it was really amazing to be awake (with no pain) and to hear her little cry when she enter the world. I think a very different experience from having to be in enormous pain for hours, pushing, breathing, and delivering a baby the natural way; which is what I was expecting to experience for the past 9 months. I think I am lucky in some ways to have such an easy delivery; even though I was disappointed to have a C-section, especially with the hospital bill being 3 times as much as we were expecting.

Now that I’m a mom life has slowed down enormously! June, Sunil and I are enjoying slow days in our little home in Goa. We wake up early (basically whenever June wakes us up), and we clean, cook delicious meals, do laundry, listen to music, read books, play with the cat, and basically just spend time with June. For the first couple of days she had her days and nights mixed up, but she is getting better everyday, and we all enjoy her long nap during the middle (hottest) part of the day. Life couldn’t be more perfect right now!

I wanted to thank everyone for all of their well wishes and congratulations! I believe that everything went so well with the surgery and that June is such a healthy little girl because of the good energy that we were getting from all of our family and friends near and far. Many of you helped us in ways that I cannot explain, but June and I couldn’t be here without your help, and I want to say thank you! I tell June everyday how many people around the world already love her. She smiles with her little milk drunken smile, and feels the love being sent to her from hundreds of miles away.

I am sorry that I don’t have many pictures to post of June yet. We have had seriously camera issues, and on the day we were discharged from the hospital the first place we went was the camera shop where they were ‘supposed’ to fix my camera, and I gave that poor guy in the camera shop a piece of my mind. Can you imagine me? A very angry new mother who hasn’t been able to take any pictures of her new little angel! Anyway, he gave us a free disposable camera, and is now fixing our digital camera for free. But, that still means I don’t have any pictures to post until we get the disposable developed and our camera back. So, I promise to post a ton of pictures of her as soon as I can! Just be patient. When you see her beautiful face it will be worth the wait.