Wednesday, January 23, 2008

He's Here!


Well the newest member of Clan Reoch is here.

Iain Giovanni was born on Saturday, January 19, 2008 at 12:18am. He weighed in at 9 pounds even and 22 inches long.

I had gone to my regular prenatal appointment on Friday, and my blood pressure was really high. Coupled with some borderline labwork for toxemia and my doctor decided it was safer to induce me right away. So off to labor and delivery I went. I managed to track Tom down at work and he hauled over. We were hoping to deliver on Friday so that Tom and Iain would have the same birthday, but we were 18 minutes late, hehe.

It was a super fast birth. Pitocin was started at 6pm, my water broke at 9:30pm, at midnight I started pushing, and at 12:18, Iain was born!

Saturday, January 5, 2008

Christmas Day

Well I'm seriously late getting this post up, but things have been slightly hectic with numerous false labors and even a trip to labor a delivery, only to be sent back home after a few hours.


But here it is at last.


This Christmas Conner had more of an idea of what to do with all the stuff under the tree. He opened a few gifts before one particular one (his Thomas the Train tent) really caught his attention. After that was put up he dragged the toys he'd opened so far inside and that was all she wrote. It would take us 3 more days to get him to open the rest of his gifts!


That evening was spent at his cousin's house where he got even more great gifts from his cousins and grandparents. But I think the best part by far was his cousins' cat who allowed Conner to pet him. Our cats want nothing to do with Conner, and he tries so hard to pet them, and he even tries to share his sippy cup. So Conner was very happy to be perched on the couch with the kitty in his lap and he could pet away!


Conner dives in to his gifts. Excuse his lovely matching outfit, lol!
Stacy and Clinton are probably having a fit somewhere with my mix of stripes and plaid.

Opening his "big" gift. This took all day to open, lol.

His Thomas pop-up tent. This was a spur of the moment buy that turned out to be the most popular gift he opened. He loves to play inside it!

A boy, his cat, and his remote. What more do you need in life other than a full sippy cup?
Don't worry, he's not actually cranking the cat's head back, the cat was leaning in to him for a rub.