Here Come's Connor!

Hi All

Dave filling in for Sarah this time - we had some technical difficulties at the hospital & could not post from there. Also - there was one or two things keeping us pretty busy!

Anyway - here's the scoop - On Valentines Day we went to see the doctor who said she'd induce on next Thursday, if needed. She also "helped things along" a little bit & said Sarah could go into labor in the next day or two. Two hours later - BAM - Sarah went into labor around 4:30 PM. Sarah - this is what you get for saying the doctor has to do something to get this baby moving ;-)

With Sarah going into labor, we did the only logical thing - we ordered Chinese food. Around 7PM we realized we needed to get a move on, so we packed up and headed off to the hospital. We checked in around 9PM. The contractions were pretty intense, but Sarah was a real trooper and by 11PM the drugs were kicking in. Unfortunately, things did not move along too quickly. There were some minor glitches with delivery. No one of them was too serious itself, but the sum of them led to Dr. Thompson recommending a cesarean (did I spell that right? I'm too tired to open the dictionary, oops just realized this thing has spellcheck) section. Within the hour (5.28 am, 2/15/2008 to be exact)- Connor was here, getting checked out in the nursery with daddy & mom was off to the recovery room. The whole family was back together by 7AM and Connor got his first breakfast. Second breakfast was served shortly thereafter.

Everyones did fine at the hospital - Connor & mom learned how to do the feeding & he's eating all the time. Dad is learning the arts of changing diapers and perfecting his bouncy-cuddly-shooshy soothing techniques. We had lots of help from the hospital staff and had a few visitors stop by. Sarah's mom flew down from Indiana, she was there the first day, but missed the birth. Interestingly - Betty bought her plane tickets for the right day months ago, but she refuses to tell me tonight's lottery numbers.

The whole family is home now, we got in around 4PM on Sunday. They let us out of the hospital a day early since everyone is doing so well. Anyone looking to visit us at the hospital is going to be disappointed now, but you are welcome at the house!

Now for what what I'm sure you have all been waiting for ... the pictures! He's a cute little guy - 7lbs, 4oz (3310 grams for you civilized metric users), 20 inches long, nice & pink, just a little hair.

I'm 2 minutes old, can't you wait with the camera old man?

Not the blue gloves - they're the coldest glove of all!

Nurse Kathy holds Connor up for his first posed photo

I decided I better leave the next photo out, but the caption was going to be:
"Behold my enormous baby junk!" - you get the idea

Then Connor got to spend some time under the heat lamps, working on his tan

In Texas, it is traditional for us to roll our children up into tacos

Connor then went to meet his mommy for the first time
cover up mom, its a Kodak moment!

Connor gets his first taste of the binky, and a promise of more binkies to come

After breakfast, we had a little snooze

Betty flew down from Indiana to meet her first grand child
(I decided I better not make any wise cracks about the mom-in-law)

Connor has a zen moment in daddy's lap

Oops, now were getting fuzzy - wake up Dave & hold that camera steady!

Mmmmmm binky

Now a better look at that cute little face,
barely a stork bite to be seen

Now we're getting sleepy

This is kind of how it looked when they were pulling him out
(well not really)

sleeping next to mommy

Team photo with Dr Thompson

Sarah gets the little guy ready to come home

Yeah, I think we should keep this one

All strapped in & ready to roll

Goodness, I can't believe they let this guy drive

Dad, can we stop at the docks?
I want to join the longshoreman's union

Huh, what? Where am I? Who are you people?

Sophie's let everyone know she'll bite them
if they hold the baby wrong

That's all for now - we'll post more soon now that we have our home network connection back