Trying to recover all of the details...

While I'm pretty tired, I believe that I really need to get some of my memories from the past 5 days before I forget. First, I need to put up a picture of you for all your fans. There are many to choose from, so I'll put up a quickie of you and me. We were both pretty tired in this picture. The last few days have been a whirlwind of events. Some of the events were traumatic, some were joyous, some were boring, some were exasperating, others were full of emotion. Let's see what evens I can remember...
Around 10am Friday morning, Kendra came to my office in our house (I was working from home), and announced that she thought her water had broken. She jumped into the shower, and when she got out it was an official trickle. I frantically packed the truck with all of the items we planned, and she got dressed for the big event. We got into the truck and drove to Conway Regional Women's Center, the birthing center where we were fortunate enough to be pre-registered. How's this for timing: as soon as we arrive at the birthing center, Kendra opened the door and took one step out of the truck. As soon as her foot hit the ground, her water broke wide open gushing out onto the sidewalk. I know that was more than you wanted to know, but it was a cool sign to me that God was in control. She stood there frozen for about 5 seconds and I told her to go on in the front door and tell the people and they'd know what to do. She went in while I parked the truck and hustled on in to find my bride. She was embarassed because she was pouring out all over the wheelchair they put her in. Who could blame her? We got ushered into her birthing room, and they put her into the bed and hooked her into an IV.. She knew from the beginning that she wasn't going to try to be a hero, so she requested an epidural as soon as she could get one. We then settled in and started calling everyone we knew to announce the story. Let me remind you that Kendra was scheduled to be induced on Monday the 15th (which was 1 week before her due date). I remember calling her dad, and he was stunned silent when I told him that we were in the hospital already. heheh. Then I called her mom, and she told us they'd be coming the next morning. I called my parents and my sister. My parents decided to wait a few days until the middle of the next week. My sister and her husband made plans to come for the weekend instead of coming over Labor Day. I was really glad that they were able to make the trip. I know it was a hard trip for all of our family members to make for such a short visit. But it was really encouraging to me to have that level of support. I'll make another entry tomorrow to fill in some more details and load few more pics.

A note directly to my son...you are making great strides today in nursing. At first, we were concerned that you weren't going to be able to pick it up b/c Kendra had to delay the first feeding for 2 days. But you are picking it up better and better each feeding. Tomorrow, we go to your first doc's appointment. We're hoping to hear that you're progressing out of the light jaundice that you had in the hospital. From the looks of things (you're filling up your diapers quite well now), it shouldn't be a problem. Love you little buddy. ~Dad