Hook 'Em

Gotta start him early! This is an old pic, but I love it. Every night I read him a Hook 'Em Horns bedtime story. He is 5 weeks now. 9 lbs, 8 oz. 21.5 inches long.
Marissa and Andrew came by yesterday to see us! Can't wait for Andrew to rough up Riley a little and make him tough. :) Andrew makes me painfully aware of how much we have to do around this house to get ready for this guy to be movin' around...what with the shredder out in the middle of the floor. Thanks for the motivation!
MJ and I get to take our first outing together ALONE since the boy arrived. We have a wedding on Saturday! It'll be fun to actually get dressed up, put on make-up and leave the boy behind for a few hours with Grammie and Aunt Kaila.

40 weeks

So, today is my actual due date, but luckily Riley came early (always early, just like his Daddy)! Starting having contractions around 7pm on Sunday, March 22nd. By the time we got to the hospital around midnight, I was 4cm dilated and almost fully effaced. The contractions were so freakin' unbearable at that point...my whole body was shaking! They gave me the epidural within the first hour I was there. It was totally stressin' me out that I could not feel my legs at all. And I could see my gigantic feet, but I could not move them.

After that, I dilated about 1 cm per hour, and I was at 10cm at 10am. Started pushing at 10:15 am, and Riley was born at 11:02 am. Such a cool experience. I wasn't sure I wanted to see what was going on, but they brought in a mirror and it really was the coolest thing to see my child being born! I'm totally biased, but he's so handsome!

He makes the cutest sound after he sneezes that I've tried to capture on my camara, but I'm always too late. I'll keep trying.