Here he is!

Hi there, well as most of you already know Garrett decided to make his appearance on my due date 9/24/09 and not one minute sooner. Wednesday started out weird to begin with. I can't explain it, I was just extra miserable that day and I didn't think I could take much more. Emotionally I was at the end of my rope. Mary watched Genevieve most of the morning while I worked on aschool project then the three of us went to Olive Garden than evening so I could ge some eggplant Parmesan (just smelling it put me into labor the first time). Later that evening I took a bath in hopes of relaxing a little. My water broke at 9:45pm as I was getting out of the bath tub. We arrived at the hospital around 10:30pm and got settled in for the night. I labored with moderate contractions throughout the night. At 6am I received an epidural and was started on Pitocin. With in 2 hours I was ready to push! The epidural was a little too strong so I had to come off of it a little before I could start pushing. Once I started feeling a little bit of pressure we began. I had to push a little bit longer than with Genevieve however it went relatively quick. He was born at 8:53am and weighed in at 8lbs 13 ounces, and was 22 inches long (1 pound heavier than Genevieve and and inch longer!).