The day Jaden was born

At this point in all of my other pregnancies, I would be 39 weeks pregnant, and DESPERATE to have my baby. That was the plan this time around as well, but unbeknownst to us, Jaden had something else in mind!

On monday, July 12th, 10 days before my due date, my water broke. There wasn't a big gush, just a little leaking, fun, I know. At 8am, I woke Kevin up and told him that I thought my water had broke, he wasn't sure I knew what I was talking about since this had never happened before. But I was pretty sure, so he got up and we decided that we had ALOT to do to get ready to have this baby.

I wasn't packed, I had a project for the girls to do before the baby came that they wanted to do, I had to put the sibling gifts together for the girls, (luckily I had already bought it all), the house was a wreck, I needed to shower and clean up, and most importantly, we needed someone to watch the girls. Luckily for us, my sister had just gotten back in town and headed over as quick as she could. Kevin and I got busy cleaning and packing and trying to figure out if we had everything we needed. Then I got the girls started on their project.

I had seen my friend Sunnie's blog where she had her girls make their own big sister shirts, and thought that was a great idea. I had bought fabric paint and wanted to help make them really cute, but we were a little short on time. So I pulled out the fabric markers and they got to draw on the shirts. Halli and Peyton LOVED this, and Halli wore her shirt all day, until they realized that baby wasn't coming in time for them to meet him that day, then I hear she decided to change to keep it clean.:)

Halli went all out drawing a rainbow, and adding "love you" to the back of her shirt.

Peyton had fun just coloring in the words, "big sis" that I had written on there for her.

and Lexie did a great job of coloring on her shirt. She was done pretty quick.

Kevin and I then headed to the hospital, and found out that my water had, indeed, broken. So they set us up in a delivery room, and started pitocin around 1:30 that afternoon. After that, there was lots of waiting, and tv watching. I eventually got an epidural, and things still moved kinda slow. Around 9pm, finally, I was ready to push.

Little Jaden was sunny-side up, which made the delivery a little difficult. But, I have a great doctor, and with him turning Jaden around, (talk about a little pain there), me pushing, and ALOT of pressure, Jaden was born at 9:36pm with the umbilical cord around his neck. Kevin said the Dr. yanked it right off and everything was fine, but he was a little purple looking when I finally got to hold him.

It wasn't quite my worst delivery, Halli still owns that one, but it was a close second. I was very glad it was over, and after how huge I felt while pregnant I wasn't suprised to hear that he was an even 9lbs. What can I say? We make big babies!:)

Yes, I look happy here, cause it's all over!


Jaden getting all cleaned up. If you notice his left foot, you can see the little deformity he has. The pediatricians think it's something called 'calcaneovalgus'. It may self correct, which we hope it does, but we have to see a pediatric orthopaedic in august to get a real diagnosis, and see if there's anything we need to do to help correct it. At the hospital they said it's not a very common deformity, so they didn't really know a ton about it, and there's a possibility it could be something else that would require a surgical fix. We're really hoping that isn't the case. It's already starting to look better though, as he's able to stretch it out a little.

The next morning Kevin, my sister, and my mother-in-law all showed up to meet the newest member of the family. With every new baby, we've done little 'sibling gifts', for the kids. This gives them something to do at the hospital while they're there besides wreck the place.

The girls opening their gifts and wearing their beautiful big sister shirts.

Halli is one proud big sister, and she LOVES that she now has a brother! Peyton wasn't quite ready to hold him, but she was fascinated by him, and the first thing she asked me was how he got out!

The proud papa, and his first son. (This does not mean there will be another son):)

Our sweet baby boy, just one day old.

Me and my baby:) Can I just say how much I LOVE hospital pictures!:)
(said with VERY heavy sarcasm)

Our new family. I can't believe we have four kiddos. :)