{"id":252212,"date":"2022-07-07T18:38:40","date_gmt":"2022-07-07T18:38:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/?p=252212"},"modified":"2022-07-07T18:38:40","modified_gmt":"2022-07-07T18:38:40","slug":"introducing-quinn-leanne-hemrica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2022\/07\/07\/introducing-quinn-leanne-hemrica\/","title":{"rendered":"Introducing Quinn Leanne Hemrica"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On Sunday, June 26th at about 4 in the morning, I became a grandfather. It seems strange to type those words, in part because it makes me feel really old \ud83d\ude42 but it&#8217;s true. And as soon as I saw little Quinn Leanne Hemrica, I fell in love! I know every parent and grandparent says this, but she was and is perfect &#8212; even when she is crying. Caitlin had a pretty rough labour, but she toughed her way through it, and I thought she looked fantastic even after all that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"700\" width=\"525\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-content\/uploads\/20220626_042239.jpg?resize=525%2C700&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-252223\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"700\" width=\"525\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-content\/uploads\/20220626_051312.jpg?resize=525%2C700&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-252226\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"394\" width=\"525\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-content\/uploads\/20220626_182707.jpg?resize=525%2C394&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-252227\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Luckily, the COVID protocols had recently been relaxed at St. Joe&#8217;s Hospital in Hamilton, so Becky and I were able to sneak into Caitlin&#8217;s room within hours of Quinn&#8217;s birth, and spent some time with the new parents and their bundle of joy. Holding her was so amazing &#8212; in part because it took me back to when Becky and I held Caitlin after her birth about 30-odd years ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"700\" width=\"525\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-content\/uploads\/20220626_172409.jpg?resize=525%2C700&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-252218\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"700\" width=\"525\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-content\/uploads\/20220626_173604.jpg?resize=525%2C700&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-252221\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Such a perfect little face she has &#8212; and she is long, apparently, so maybe she will be tall? Long fingers and big feet too. And a cute little button nose.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"700\" width=\"525\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-content\/uploads\/20220626_185325.jpg?resize=525%2C700&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-252234\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"394\" width=\"525\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3614.jpg?resize=525%2C394&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-252224\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"700\" width=\"525\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_6624.jpg?resize=525%2C700&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-252216\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A big smile. I realize at this age, it&#8217;s probably gas, but what the hell \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"700\" width=\"525\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-content\/uploads\/5f8c6a86-02b8-4cc7-bb2c-4abcc6648d06.jpg?resize=525%2C700&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-252213\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Little side-eye from Quinn here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"700\" width=\"525\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_7418.jpg?resize=525%2C700&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-252225\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Out cold.<\/p>\n<div class=\"syndication-links\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Sunday, June 26th at about 4 in the morning, I became a grandfather. It seems strange to type those words, in part because it makes me feel really old \ud83d\ude42 but it&#8217;s true. And as soon as I saw little Quinn Leanne Hemrica, I fell in love! I know every parent and grandparent says &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2022\/07\/07\/introducing-quinn-leanne-hemrica\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Introducing Quinn Leanne Hemrica&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crsspst_to_mathewingramblogwordpresscom":false,"mf2_syndication":[],"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-252212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252212\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}