Week 39

* I know what you're thinking.... How the fuck did he get a post up with a baby being born at almost 2AM?! While Cole was in the beginning of her labor we were in bed for hours, talking, and working thru the smaller contractions. She managed to nap for 30 minutes and I started this post and just now finished it at 11:27AM the next day. I need to take a nap. Cole and baby are sound asleep.

When we woke up we decided our Sunday would be handled much differently then our Sat had. We totally did the sit around and wait thing the day before. We sat around like a couple of teenagers trying to figure out of they were drunk or not... "you feel anything yet? How bout now?" Nothing happened but boredom. So Sunday the plan was to wake up and be over productive. We planned to do the Week 39 shoot, and finish the nursery and finally take pictures of it all set up, and then we made dinner plans with friends. The thinking was that we would never ever finish these things, now that we had made them. It worked like a charm. I finished up some stuff in the nursery for Cole that she couldn't reach, and then we set up for the Week 39 pic after lunch. We took about 4 pictures and then she was hit HARD with a contraction and she said: "I remember these!" I actually snapped a picture of one of the very first contractions that she had. It was the contraction that made us call our midwife and kicked everything off.



I plan on writing a big long winded blow by blow play of the days events and how mind blowing terrific Cole did in labor when we catch up a bit. Our friend Gabi came over and took pictures so we have no idea what they look like yet from the birth. I am in awe of Cole in ways I never knew I could be. She was so brave, and so determined, and she never had to be encouraged a single time. She listened to her body the entire time. She knew when she was fully dilated before anyone had to check. She just said "Im there." and she was. Like I said more later :)

This house is busting at the seams with love. I just watched Cole feed this baby and do some practice burping. I can't believe how much this baby moves and her eyes are so very curious. LB came home at 9AM and ran around the house yelling for Mama for a good 10 minutes before he would come in our room. We had Cole in the bed waiting for him without the baby, and the baby in her crib so that he could see her by himself for the first time, on his terms. He was upset at first running in and out of the room and shouting "MAMA." But once he walked over to the crib and saw his "dister" he melted. He stood and took his minute with her, grabbed her hat and took it off and put it back on her, and then looked at us and ran out of the room. It's going to be a long hard transition and we aren't going to fool ourselves to think it isn't going to be so tough on him.

I will upload baby pics tonight some time later, and I am sure I will be annoying the world with a million pictures of this little girl.

All the Love in the Universe ~ Us