the official story

So this is how lauren had liam... well i think i'll just fast-track til when she started having contractions. We were watching a matinee of transformers on the 4th of july when Laur started timing her contractions. They were anywhere from 7 to 12 minutes apart, but by the end of the movie they were consistently 6 minutes apart. The movie started at 4 and got out just after 6. Jon (Laur's brother) and I both enjoyed the movie intensly. Fortunately Laur was able to occupy her mind with more than just a mindless action movie... so she enjoyed it too. We filled the rest of the day up with getting ready for labor and didn't end up going to the hospital til about midnight or so. When we checked in Laur was dialated to a 2, which was what she was at two weeks prior. After a while, and stronger and consistent contractions they gave Laur some potocin, which helped her dialate. She got an epidural sometime in the early morning and may have faded into sleep a little, but nothing too deep. By just after noon o'clock she started getting really heavy contractions and the nurse decided to have her start pushing. She pushed for about an hour and had William at 1:35. He weighed 6.14 and had a cute little scream. Lauren was solid all the way through and was so happy to see Liam when he came out. Definitely the coolest experience ever. We enjoy liam's company; he is so easy to deal with.. i think. he only cries when he needs something, food, diaper change, sleep. As soon as we address the problem he's as happy as ever.

Liam and I

I am sorry to use the word cute with these photos but here they are, and dang they're... cute.

Hey and just for the record, I did everything humanly possible to clean my hands whilst at the hospital.

Liam

Well folks our son is here. I don't know what else to say except that we are so excited to finally have him here. These are some photos of us at the hospital.