Introducing Liam Coray Brannon

Liam Coray Brannon made his debut on February 16, 2012 at 11:12 am. He weighed 8 lbs. even and was 20 3/4 inches long.

Kiley and I went into the hospital at 12:30 am on the 16th for me to get induced. They were able to start the pitocin at about 1:30 am. Not much happened between that at 8:00 am. I was having contractions, but they didn't hurt at all. The nurse kept asking me what my pain level was on a scale of 0-10. It was maybe at a 1.

Kiley and I were both anxious for something more to happen. My doctor came in about 8:00 am and was surprised to see that things were moving as slow as they were and broke my water to get things moving. At that point he hoped I would have him by 4:00pm.

But move they did! He broke my water about 8:15 am and hard labor kicked in almost immediately. I had hard contractions from that point on. I got my epidural about 10:30 am, at which point I was dilated to a 3. By the time he was done with my epidural, I was at a 9.

The nurse called my doctor who didn't believe I could be that far along. He came in about 11:00 am and I pushed for about 10 minutes and Liam was here!

When I first saw him, I immediately thought he looked just like Gabbie!

Mom and Liam... I was smitten the moment I saw him!

Gabbie immediately fell in love with little Liam. Grandma Dianne did too!

Daddy and his little man!

Our little family is now complete. Welcome to the world, Liam Coray!

He has melted our hearts already!

So Behind!

I am so behind in blogging! So behind, in fact, that when I think about getting caught up, I just shut down! So, here is my commitment that over the next month I will stay caught up on the current happenings - like Liam's arrival and stuff - and get caught up on old posts.

Quick update on Liam - he could show up anytime now. If I don't have him by February 16, I will get induced that morning. Let the countdown begin!

Stay tuned!

Dance & Tumbling Class

We signed Gabbie up for a ballet/tap class as well as tumbling class. She has been so excited to start her classes... that is until the day came to actually go!

Kiley took her for the first day and these were the pictures that I got during the class...

She wanted nothing to do with it! Kiley made her stay in the class, but as you can clearly see, she kept her distance and her expression left no doubt how she felt about being there.

Her tumbling class was a little better, probably because our fabulous sitter, Jodi, took her and there were no parents there.

And 3 weeks later, this was her at dance today!

She loves dance class and I have to admit that I was definitely a proud mom watching from the sidelines. My little girl is growing up!