Welcome Daniel!

Daniel Earl Gibson

August 12, 2008 12:31 pm

7 lbs 6 oz

19 inches

I'm trying to upload pictures from our computer but the wireless here at the hospital must be a little too slow to let me- I keep getting an error message after waiting forever to upload even 1 picture. We'll be home tomorrow so I'll get some pictures up soon.

Daniel is healthy and loves to eat and sleep. It was a long labor, but definitely worth it as you'll see in the pictures as soon as I get them up. He has more dark hair than Benjamin did, if you can believe that! We're excited that he's here and we're now an official family of four! Two little boys-- can you believe it?!

Big brother Benjamin seems to like his baby brother for the most part. He has been distracted by our wonderful family who have been taking care of him while Jonathan and I have been at the hospital- especially Aunt Dianne and Uncle Rob who came and stayed with Benjamin while I was in labor (in the middle of the night too!) and Grammy (my mom) who flew in from California Tuesday night to help us for a few days. We love you all and thanks again for all your help.

And for those who are wanting to know- Monday night at about 9:30pm the contractions that I had been having since Friday suddenly went full strength and we found ourselves at the hospital at about 3am. I was sure they were going to send me home but we found out at 4:45am that I would be staying- I was so relieved! I got my epidural about an hour and a half later, which promptly stopped my labor from progressing. After lots of boring details and pitocin and a failing epidural Daniel was born at 12:31 pm- healthy and hungry!