I love my son soooooooooooo much!  I feel like everything he does is amazing!  He is so smart and funny, and he is already walking!  He started walking a couple of days after he turned 9 months old!  I am amazed at how much love a person can feel - Chris and I are both falling more and more in love with this boy day after day!  He looks a lot like Chris, but there is definitely a little bit of me in there too!  He says mama, dada, kkk, (for kitty), hi, boob (Chris taught him that one), and his "I you" has turned into a slurred, but real "I love you" and 6 people have heard him say it now so it is not just my imagination!!!  He is getting taller too - starting to grow into that 24 pound body!   I really wish that I only had to work part time so that I could stay with him.  I have just been so exhausted lately!  I feel like I am having a hard time keeping up with everything - I just have to remind myself that school (work), coaching, and school (school) will be over in 8 weeks and then I will have summer break with my little guy.  We will see!  Anyways this is just a quick update about my beautiful, wonderful baby boy! 

After Monday's doctors appointment I thought that I would be going into labor any minute.  I was missing one major factor though - contractions.  I sat around my house basically waiting to go into labor on Tuesday and ended up pulling out a jigsaw puzzle.  I like puzzles, but this one was really hard.  As my due date got closer (Thursday) and my body continued to not go into labor I convinced myself that Will wasn't going to come until the puzzle was finished.  Thursday night Chris sat down with me and said that we were finishing the puzzle and that if I went into labor that we were going to frame it.  Sure enough at 3:30 in the morning I woke up with contractions.

I woke up and my contractions were 5 minutes apart and strong.  I thought that I would start to feel contractions and then time them as they got stronger and closer – boy was I wrong!  They were strong right away! I waited 30 minutes before waking up Chris and calling the doctor. They told me to head in because the hospital was about an hour away and we have a family history of fast labors.   In the car the contractions started to come so fast - and then I started to feel sick.  Chris had to pull over so I could throw up (not uncommon for this pregnancy!).  We got to the hospital around 5:00AM and they told me that I was 6-7 cm dilated.  I told them that I still didn't want an epidural and so I just waited in the assessment room until a delivery room opened up.  Most of that time I was kneeling on the floor while they were trying to find a vein to put an IV in.  I remember feeling so sad that it hurt so bad.  Not angry or afraid just sad because I was hurting.  We got into the labor and delivery room at around 6:00 AM and by the time they got me settled in and let my sisters and mom in I was about ready to push.  I didn't know that I was almost fully dilated and had started to ask for an epidural. They told me that it would just slow the labor down at this point and that pushing would make me feel better.  They were so right!  I went from feeling out of control to being able to handle it.  It got a little scary when they made me keep lying on my side in between contractions because Will's heart rate was not recovering fast enough, but I only had to push for a half hour before he arrived.    It was a scary feeling pushing a baby out.  Every time I was moving him I knew what I was doing and it made me kind of slow down.  Until his heart rate started to dip then I pushed really hard.  His head came out and then he kind of got stuck because his hand was by his face.  A nurse had to push on my stomach while I pushed him out. 

He was so cute when he came out!  He barley even cried!  He got an 8 and a 9 on the apgar test.  He also had a huge bruise on his face from coming down so fast and a hematoma on his head.  He was 9 pounds and 1 ounce and 21 inches long.  I feel like the luckiest mom ever - he is perfect.  Now I just have to get used to this no sleeping thing!

I went to the doctors today not expecting to hear anything except that I was the same as last week, but it turns out that I am now 3-4 cm dilated and 80 percent effaced!  That is exciting news because even though I am not really feeling anything my body is starting to get ready!  I hope that that means he will be here in the next couple of days (ideally today or tomorrow) but I know that I can be dilated for weeks with out delivering.  I guess we will just have to wait and see!