Our sweet Emma Lee at just about a day old. She didn't waste any time getting here, that's for sure! Here's a little timeline for the night:6:30 PM- My brother in law Casey calls and says my sister Kristi's water broke and he'd keep us posted.
6:35 PM- I'm cursing because she was due a whole 4 days after me and was having her baby first. How dare she! :)
12:00ish Midnight-I start feeling a few contractions that were a litle more intense than Braxtons, and I hadn't heard from Kristi so I thought there might be a little hope of beating her to delivery. But the contractions were too far apart to worry about so I went back to sleep.
12:20AM- Baby Ashlynn Laura Vanderhoef is born. Congrats to Kristi & Casey!
2:00 AM- Contractions every 4 minutes that were definitely something to get excited over.
2:30 AM- I wake up Jake, we get Jen out of bed, and head for the hospital. Jake will get after me for not mentioning that I wanted to wait and time some more contractions, but he said "no, we're going." I need to give him the credit because we probably wouldn't have made it there. We called his mom to meet us at the hospital. Luckily Jen was happy and when we got out to the car she says, "it snowing!" and "Sista's comin!" So cute.
2:45 AM- I call my mom to let her know we're on our way to the hospital, and she says, "Are you kidding me?" Turns out they'd just gotten home from seeing baby Ashlynn (just down the road from where we were headed). The roads were bad and my parents almost wrecked on the way home so I told them to try and get some sleep and we'd call them when she came.
3:00 AM- Contractions every 2 minutes as we pull into the hospital parking lot. Get checked in as Jake goes outside to meet his mom.
3:15ish AM-Nurse checks and says I'm dilated to a 9.5. My eyes get wider and wider as she tells me they'll "try" for the epidural. Nurses are running around trying to get things gathered for an IV. The nurses were yelling down the hall at Jake to get in there or he might not make it. He comes in as they get the blue tubing thingy on my arm, then say, "bag it, we got a baby comin!"
3:25 AM- Our sweet baby is born! Jake says, "I think she looks like an Emma, Kate." I still just don't even know what happened it went by so fast! I was more nervous than I needed to be, I do know that. Having no epidural wasn't as bad as I thought, but again it went by so fast I didn't really have time to think about it. So there you have it! What a night!
Jentri's first reaction to her baby sister. A look of "Ok, what's really going on here?" She wasn't sure what to think when we told her there wasn't a baby in mommy's tummy anymore. She has since warmed up to Emma, and maybe loves her a bit TOO much if ya know what I mean. :) Jen loves to hold her and give her plenty of hugs and kisses. She's a sweet big sister and seems to be a bit protective of Emma. The first night we brought her home, Jen got upset when Emma was "sad" and crying. Jen cried too and said, "whas wong, Emma? Emma sad!" It was all too cute. She's such a sensitive thing and is always so aware of her surroundings and what everyone in the family is doing at any given time. What a cutie...
Jen's giving me & Emma kisses in "mommy's white bed" as Jen called it. I love this pic with my girls. How'd I get so lucky!?! I love bein a mommy!
There are about a million more pics I want to post, but I think I'll hold off for now. Having two kids now is definitely an adjustment! I thought I didn't get anything else done with just Jen! :)It'll get easier, but it's going to take some time I think. We really are so blessed. Emma's a sweet baby and seems to be doing well here at home. She was a bit jaundiced the first few days we were home, but we were able to have the lights here at home so that was good. She's doing great! We are so blessed! We just need to make it over to see her twinner cousin sometime. Kinda fun...
Thanks so much for all the help and visits we've had since we've been home. We love and appreciate all of you! Thanks especially to our moms for being so great in helping with Jen and house work and all the countless things you're always doing for us. Hopefully I can be half the mom you both are! We love you!
More pics to come! Happy Wednesday!
