Hope Kathryn Smith is finally here

The baby is finally here. I know she is 2 weeks early but we have been waiting for this baby ever since we found out. Laura is doing well. She is still very sore from the delivery and has not caught up on her sleep. From what I hear we will never catch up again. The baby is well. Her temperature is still on the low side so we have been keeping her wrapped tight like a burrito. We are still at the hospital and plan on staying until Thursday the 1st.

2:30 PM 12/30 and still no baby

So we came in last night and here we are at 2:30pm and still no baby. Laura is getting a lot closer with the help of pitocin. She was having a few contractions this morning but then they stopped around 10am so we made the decision to try pitocin to get this party started and it has helped but still no baby. Laura is finally able to sleep a little bit inbetween contractions. Not sure if you call that sleep but I just did. I have been keeping busy reading and updating the site. Here comes another contraction. More updates later.
Mac

Water Broke, Ready to Go

Today is the big day. Laura's water broke last night at 11 o'clock so we rushed into the hospital. Everything checked out so that shipped us over to the Labor and Delivery where we still are. She did not have too many contractions last night but the contractions have picked up this morning. Not consistent but she is having some big ones. The doctors are planning to let her continue with the contractions unless she is not making progress. I have been just been keeping her company and rubbing her back. I got about 3-4 hours of sleep last night on a bed that was built for a 5 year old but it worked. Laura has not slept yet so it might be a tough day for her. Well, back to business.
Mac

Baby Furniture

I am close to being done with the baby furniture (bookcase and toy chest) that I have been building for the last few weeks. It has been a fun and long experience and I am hoping that it will last for many years. I really am enjoying that I can custom build the 2 pieces to the size I want but at the same time, that is taking a lot more work since I do not have plans to go off of. So last night, I painted my first coat of paint on the pieces tomato red. We went to Home Depot and looked for red paint but that did not exist so we went with the next best thing, tomato. I guess red paint is out of style. The reason we wanted red was both pieces will look like barns, very fun. So, in the middle of painting the bookcase, I started to have some deep thoughts about why am I building a book case. I am building something to hold the kids books yet the kid can't even read and for the toy chest, she won't even be able to lift her head let alone a toy over it. I guess i will put this in my future investment bucket.
Mac