The first weeks of our New Life

Sorry i haven't posted before now for those of you that have been waiting to see pictures and news about our new little guy Cullen Ian and his big brother Clay!

Ok the stats first...
Cullen was born on Oct. 12th, 2010 at 10:25pm
Weighing in a whopping 6 lbs 10 oz. (one ounce larger than Clay was when he was born :) )
19 1/4 inches long

that morning I dropped clay off at school, pampered myself with a manicure and then I started having some sharp pains late morning of the 12th that were making me rather nervous (did NOT feel like contractions) so i gave the Dr. a call and went into the office to get checked out and make sure that everything was ok in there. Everything was good on the fetal heart rate monitor so they decided to check and see how far along I was and we were almost 1/2 way to where we needed to be. Dr. Bolin made the call to go ahead and get things moving so I headed home to get out bags for the hospital and called brian to let him know it was baby time! A few days earlier than we had planned but we were pretty ready to go. Grandparents and siblings were called, plans for Clay arranged, and then we headed to the hospital around 2:00pm, got all hooked up to everything by around 3:30 and away we went!

The mom's decided to come up to the hospital to say hi and visit for a minute once they were in town around 10:00pm and clay was in bed with grandpa at home to listen for him. about 10 minutes into our visit I had a check by one of the nurses and it was time to have Cullen. Perfect timing for the grandma's to just stay at the hospital until Cullen was born. Dr. Bolin was called into the hospital (we warned the nurses that last time we had to stop pushing because Dr. Bolin wasn't there yet so they decided to wait until she got there to start any pushing). 2 contractions later Cullen was born just as perfect as could be and looking ALOT like big brother Clay. Cullen definately has darker skin and hair (from the swinter side of the genes we think) but has alot of the same cute little features as his brother including those DARK blue eyes right now.

The first 2 1/2 weeks have been awesome! Clay loves being a big brother and likes to snuggle up with his baby brother "culky". He shares his toys with him and gives kisses all the time as well as trying to put the paci in baby brother's mouth all the time. Yesterday he even sang songs to Cullen in the car to try to get him to stop crying, sweetest thing ever!

Everyone is doing well, a little sleep deprived but that is to be expected. Other than that just loving our life as a family of 4 and trying to enjoy every minute of it!

Hope you're well and pictures are on their way soon!

The Time is Getting Near!!!

Two weeks from today we are due to have this little boy! I can't believe that it is coming so fast! I still feel great and only today had to ask Brian to help me tie my shoes for school... pretty sure I am going to wear flip flops the rest of the week :) Still in minor denial that we are as close as we are since I feel this good, I should be at least slightly miserable by now but have been blessed and a comfortable and smooth pregnancy once again. I am working through this week then am done for the rest of the year and possibly more than that.
When I saw the OB last week she said that we are moving in the right direction and my mild contractions have been working their magic. We have another appt. this wednesday and will find out if we are getting any closer and get a game plan in place.
Possible you won't hear from us until the next "HE'S HERE" post so stay tuned...