February 1, 2012

• would you like to meet our baby?
  great, 'cause i'd like to introduce him : )
  here is the barely over seven pounds of dreaminess, little chad calvin.
  

  

  

  

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  he's with me now. he's tiny enough to lay on my shoulder & i can still type with both hands. i do this every time .... (over think!! : ) tell myself things like i should really lay him in his bed & he can't sleep in my arms all the time.

  rex assures me its impossible to ruin spoil a kid in the first 3 days of his life & that all our other kids are sleeping unaided alone in their beds right now.

  so, consequently he has spent 94% of his 3 days of life with me ... the other 6% being viciously fought over by the remaining six people in his family : ) 

  
  to say i'm completely taken with him, is an incredible understatement. there's a reason why we keep doing this .... these little tiny baby loves get us every time : )

  i always love reading other girls stories on how it went. what was it like. i'm all for reading the details! and yet when it comes to writing something out about mine, i tend to clam up.

  
  rex takes this picture every time. he sets down my bag, fishes out the camera, points it up to the wall & clicks. so we will always remember when we first got there.

  11:36am .... friday morning.

  3:04am ..... saturday morning.

  whats the story in between : )

  
  here we are around 7pm friday night. yes rex is on the phone. yes i look like i'm not in labor .... i wasn't : )

  the short story goes like this -
  my water broke on its own around 6am friday morning. when that happened with ben & molly within four hours we had a baby.

  i sent rex a message that started with holy cow .... and he came back from work. i did the usual things like take a shower & shave my legs & fold a load of laundry & vacuum our room : ) he did the usual things like take the kids to his moms & put the car seat in the truck & make sure he had a good book to read.

  we went to target & bought things like q-tips & on sale dresses for the little girls. we went to the mall 'cause walking is always suppose to start contractions.

  we were already past our 4 hours & absolutely nothing had happened.

  walking didn't work. neither did watching house hunters international on the hospital tv. neither did freaking out over it not happening. and neither did walking.

  12 hours had passed & while i was pretty comfortable and having zero contractions the whole point of being there was to have a baby and that was going to mean uncomfortable & lots of contractions.

  so we finally hit the point of what were we waiting for .... and for the first time in six deliveries we went with drugs to start labor.

  i was given pitocin for the first time.

  house hunters was still on. they were playing reruns by now. the girl's epidural in the next room had worn off, she was screaming.  rex was falling asleep. so was i. we were that tired.

  by 2:30am i was only dilated to 6cm.

  it was a fast, hard 34 minutes.
  
  and then we met -

  i cried. rex smiled.

  the end.

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  some hospital pictures -

  
  all cleaned up after his bath -

  
  our leftover breakfast -

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  
  sleeping through his first meeting with his little friend -

  
   
  
  and here's a classic : ) but it the first family picture with all 8 of us .... 8!

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  some at home pictures  -

  
  he takes the clock picture every time .... i take the back step picture every time.

  

  

  

  

  

  a few comments from the kids so far ....

  'really mom! its milk?? i thought it was leftovers.' a sincere response to the fact that chad lives on milk from mom & not the 'leftovers' of my diet : )
  
  'regan got a little brother before she got a haircut'
  
  'he's a good sleeper.'

  'when he's not looking at me, i know he's thinking about it.'

  'he's a handsome boy.'
  
  'i think he'll be a good brother.'

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  amie asked who he looked like & while several people have suggested different kids, rex told her he looked like an old man - here is chad's old man look : )

  

  

  

  

  

  

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  a gift, he's a beautiful gift.

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