Fun, Friends, and Easter

Here I am about 1 month old, sleeping and eating alot. Boy its hard work growing, but everyone enjoys taking care of me. I got to see my Aunts and Grandparents and they love me so much. And happy birthday mommy, I love you!

Here is my first play date, Cambria Botma. Her and her parents Grant and Jodie came over and we played and had fun!

Hop, hop, hop - the easter bunny was me this year. Mom and dad decided to dress me up and we hid eggs and had a fun easter egg hunt.

Lights, Camera, Action!

I'm 1 day old with mommy in the recovery room. I had a hard day yesterday... Check out what they did to my feet. This messy stuff was alot of fun! My first checkup right after I was born. Did not like the nurses messing with me, but happy they took me right back to mommy! Here is mommy days before I showed up walking around the front courtyard.

What a Cute Boy!

This is my first set of pictures from the hospital and coming home. Click the picture for a full size view or mouse over me to use the controls.

This is the second set of pictures from my first days at home. Feel free to comment on your favorite!

A Flower Among Us...

How ironic is this. For Valentines day, I bought Rachel a half dozen rose bushes to plant in pots in our front courtyard. The first rose to blossom started to appear the day Rachel was having significant labor pains on Thursday the 5th of March. As we were leaving to go to the hospital, the first yellow rose started to emerge leaves. We left the hospital that night and Rachel was only 3 cm. dilated and 60% effaced. We ended up having to go back to the hospital Saturday night the 7th and noticed again the yellow rose bloomed even more. At this point Rachel was a little more dilated but not much more. Monday came around and the rose had almost opened. We went in to the doctor's office for our weekly check and Rachel was now 4+ cm. dilated and 70% effaced. We knew she was close. The next day around 3 p.m. there were signs that Isaiah was ready to grace us with his presence. As we left out the front door we noticed the rose had bloomed and fully opened! This was a sign. Now we were at the sixth day that Rachel had been having labor pains. When we got to the hospital Rachel was having extreme contractions not previously felt and she was 5 1/2 cm. dilated and 75% effaced. Dr. Kells just so happened to be at the hospital that night and after some gnarly contractions and spiky readouts on the monitor we were finally admitted. Dr. Kells ended up breaking her water a little after 11 p.m. as the contractions were really getting bad (sorry sweetie). At 1:01 a.m. on the 11th Isaiah was now a beautiful flower among us!

Rachel Blossoms...

As Rachel continued to blossom, Isaiah was now reaching the end of his stay inside mommy. These pictures were taken at our house only a few weeks before Isaiah came to us.