Announcing our new addition...

Holden Dale

Born 3/31/09 at 1:11pm

6lbs. 2 oz., 19 1/2 in.

Well obviously things happened not too long after my last post! I woke up early Tuesday morning and realized I was having regular contractions. After an hour of timing them, I decided to wake up Shanon. We got to the hospital around 7am and the doctor checked me during his morning rounds. I was dilated to a 5, so he went ahead and broke my water at about 9am. After that, I progressed fairly quickly and was ready to push by 12:45. After less than 15 minutes of pushing little Holden was born. The doctor put him on my stomach and I was checking out how light his hair color was when I felt something warm (yes, my lovely epidural didn't work so well) and the doctor said Holden had just peed on me. I figure he was just breaking me in early!

He is just a perfect little man... he's so hairy I call him my little monkey. He has little stork bites/angel kisses on his upper lip, nose, and between his eyebrows just like Macy did. It really threw me that he has blonde hair though, you can hardly see his eyelashes. We came home from the hospital on Thursday and Macy is quite the proud big sister! She loves him to pieces (literally!) and can't get enough. The next few weeks should be interesting!

More pics...

The doctor actually took this one after he was born:

Macy meets Holden for the first time... do you think she's excited??


You can see his blonde hair here:

He may be little, but he has big feet:

We do know that his digestive system is working very well. He peed and pooped through 4 outfits AND receiving blankets our first night home. I only have a few newborn size sleepers so we had to put some 0-3 mos. on him which look just ridiculous. I picked him up last night and he had managed to get his entire arm out of his sleeper. He's got some growing to do!