Night Out with Grandaddy and Meme!

On Tuesday, July 17th David and I had our first night out without the baby! My parents gladly kept William and we went to dinner at one of our favorite restaurants, La Duni, and we saw the movie Ted. William had fun with Grandaddy and Meme too!
They did two of William's favorite things:

 Dinner time with Grandaddy!

Bath time with Meme!

Mommy and Daddy had fun too, but we sure missed the little guy!

Mommy vs. Daddy

William likes to sit with Daddy like this:

But on Mommy like this:

Some more pics from the hospital

Here are a couple more pictures from the first moments of William's arrival that I want to keep around!

 On the scale! Official weight: 8 lbs, 11.5 oz.

 Hello world! I have an awesome cone head here!

 Sweet little baby in his hospital cart.

William's tag!

Bath time!

William really likes taking baths, especially now that his umbilical cord is off and he can take baths in his cute whale tub! The night his cord came off, I was out with some friends and William was having boy time with Daddy and Uncle Mike. Well, his cord fell off and the guys thought it looked weird! Not only did they call me, but they texted pictures of it to our friend Nathalie who is a second year pediatric resident. She told him it was fine but it was still cute how concerned Daddy and Uncle Mike got.

Here are some pictures of William enjoying bath time, usually with Meme and Grandaddy!

First sponge bath with Meme!

Bath time right before the cord fell off!

William's Visitors

William has had lots of fun friends and family visit him! Here are just a few:

 Uncle Mikey!

 Aunt Liney, all the way from Chicago!

 Laurie and Fr. Mike Michie!

 My dad, who's grandpa name is TBD. I'm pushing for Buzzy or Mugsy right now.

 MeMe!

 Aunt De, all the way from Austin! And you can see Uncle Warren in the background.

 There's more of Aunt Liney!

Nana all the way from Willis!

 Kate and Nora! (Dustin and Asher were there, too)

You can tell Nora is a big sister, she's a pro at baby-holding. :)

Uncle Steve, a two-time grandpa, is a feeding expert! And he's also great at helping W get out the farts! Ha!

Plus we've seen but haven't taken pictures with Melissa and Judith, Kevin and Kelly, David and Edith, Chris and Kristin, Marissa, Doug and Jenny, Leslie and Reece, Kerry, Megan and Austin, Casey, Tilly, Katy, and Celine!

William feels the love and so do we. Thank you all!!! :)

Going Home!

We got discharged from the hospital on Thursday, June 28. Because the hospital was so full, we never got a room in the postpartum unit, instead we stayed in our labor and delivery room the whole time. I thought it was great! The room was bigger, the nurses were wonderful, and since the nurses usually deliver the babies and say goodbye, William was the star of L&D for a couple days!

Here's the little guy, all strapped in and ready to go home!

William's Birth Day: Part Three

Disclaimer: I want to write down my memories of William's birth mainly for me and my memory; that's the topic of this post. There are so many options these days with regard to the birth process and even more opinions on the matter. These are the choices that David and I made, with the guidance of our OB and our own research. I want to be straight forward and note that these are not the choices for everyone so please don't think I'm pushing these choices, nor am I interested if you don't agree with our choices. Thanks!

So when it came time to push, we learned that Mr. William, who had been in the right position for birth for every sonogram, had decided at the last minute to rotate the wrong way. Which made for a much longer delivery than anyone expected! We started at 8pm, and William didn't make his arrival until 10:04pm Tuesday night. I pushed for about an hour before they called in Dr. S and the nursery nurses to prepare to deliver our sweet boy! At one point, one of the nursery nurses started laughing and said that she thought he was hanging on to my ribs with his toes. I think I would have laughed a little more then if I wasn't so exhausted!

But little William was worth the wait! He weighed 8 lbs, 11 oz. and was 20 and 1/2 inches long. I remember the nurses putting him on my chest right after he was delivered, and I was sort of in shock that it was all over and he was here! David cut his cord, and then they put him under the heat lamp to take his measurements and do some routine tests.

Here's a picture David snapped during the process:

We were all laughing that he had his little hand on his head, like he was saying Geez! My head sure does hurt!

Here's the first picture of our little family of three:

After he got cleaned up, they gave him back to me and he talked to me for about an hour. It was soooo sweet, like he was telling me all about his journey to birth!

Then the family came in to see their grandson/ nephew! We were all so excited and thrilled to finally have William here, to hold. He's such a cutie!

Here are some more pictures of William's first few hours: