Happy Birthday Henry Jack!!!

First, a quick update!

This is Georgetown University.

The weather was SPLENDID on Sat, so we headed over to

historic Georgetown! What a charming and bustling little place!

I LOVE living here.

Taking a delicious stroll on Georgetown streets.

Sunday we headed to see the temple.

That looks like snow in the background,

but thanks to the sunny sunny weather, our snow has all but melted.

And this is where the story begins.

(This is me, waiting for the picture to take, as a contraction came!

So there you go, in action!)

Sunday we had some neighbors over for dinner. We were having a great time,

until I began to feel what I thought was braxton hicks.

About 8 pm, I decided I'd better go lie down (more an excuse to stop doing the dishes!!)

and began timing whatever these things were at 9 pm.

(time does FLY when you are recording every 10 min.)

After lying in bed till midnight, (having timed them 10 min. apart for the last 3 hours)

Jeff now sleeping by my side,

I thought I'd take a trip to the bathroom.

I knew the second I got up my contractions would speed up,

and that this baby would not be long.

The contractions immediately started coming 5 and then 4 min. apart.

(I had waited to get up, or move, in fear that this really was happening)

After returning from the bathroom,

( where I truly was worried if I went pee, the baby would come out)

I told Jeff I really wanted to leave.

We called our midnight babysitter, and by this time, it was about 1:15.

We got to the Emergency room, and there the journey began.

After being offered a wheelchair (a BILLION TIMES!!!) we began our walk,

to the Womens area.

(Why on EARTH they had us go ALL the way to the ER, if I was going to walk a marathon !!! )

It took FOREVER, and I was truly worried I'd have the baby in the elevator,

with some hospital staffer,

who DIDN'T even have a PHONE!!.

After having been here 2 times,

I had some idea what things felt like.

I now during the contractions was hot, sweaty, getting the shakes...a few other things,

I really thought we should have been RUNNING!

and was DESPERATE to just get to the womens center.

At the check in desk, where I thought Jeff was being way too calm,

I informed him that I REALLY needed to get a room.

Once we got in the room, the nurse didn't seem to be responding to my needs

as quick as I would have assumed! I swear they recruited her from the nursing home!!

She put the monitors on the baby, and then checked me.....

I WAS DILATED TO A 10!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I KNEW I didn't have long, and even after the nurse didn't seem to be alarmed.

AND THEN MY WATER BROKE!!!!

I exclaimed as the next 3 contractions came that I was desperate to push.

In the most annoying tone, she kept telling me to WAIT!!!

Are you KIDDING!!!!???!?!!

What did she think I had been waiting for for the last 9 months!????

So, I did, I waited to push, but the second I heard the doc. was in the room,

I said, in so many words "listen doc, this baby is coming, weather you are

ready to catch him or not!!!"

And then, just like that (well, you know, something like that)

baby Henry Jack

was born!! 

 03/08/10

1:59 pm. 21 inches 8lbs. 4oz. (my biggest by a whole pound!!)

This labor fulfilled all my wildest dreams!

I have ALWAYS wanted to get to the hospital and have them say

"oh, you are at a 10"

and

I've always wanted to know what it felt like to have your water break.

Check, and check.

Lucy has truly fallen in love with Henry.

She is constantly saying "Hey mama, wheres Henry?"

Or saying "Oh, what a sweet baby"

and he really has been a great baby!!

Need I say more?

This is in attempts to capture his double chin.

Everyone that saw him said "what a chubby baby."

Meeting the fam! His first day home. Charlie is a tornado around him,

and that will take some working on.

I have been in love with Henry!

It is so fun to have new baby!!!

He's doing great so far with eating, and seems to be adjusting well

with night and day.

(It has helped a BILLION to have my nanny (aka mother) here!! She has saved our lives,

and saved poor Charlie many times!)

And last but not least, Jeff's brother Zack

is in a military base, just about 30 miles south of us!

We have tried 3 times to see him,

and finally on Sat. we met up!

Lucy loved it, and it was GREAT to see him!!