Baby Owen has Arrived

Baby Owen has joined us in the world outside of Grace's tummy. He was born at 3:28, which is pretty funny since our surgery was scheduled for 1 pm. Here's Grace doing a bit of multi-tasking while waiting.









When Grace did finally get into the OR, she spent a few minutes getting her combined spinal/epidural telling the nice Dr how it sorta hurts. On a side note, the ansteseologist (SP?) was named Happe(spoken Happy), so that was a good sign. Here's what I looked like all scrubbed up, ready for the operating room.


I got to sit in the room with Grace and talk to her, but she was not up for much conversation.


So I kept talking to her. I didn't watch as they opened her up, but when they pulled him out and showed him to us, I went over to watch as they cleaned him up.

Owen came out, peaked over the curtain to look at mommy and went to go get cleaned up.






He weighed 8lbs 8.8Oz. (Correction from the 8lbs 9Ozs I posted earlier) and was 21 inches long. When we tried to move him from the scale, he grabbed a hold of it and wouldn't let go.

He's beautiful and looks so much like Violet( See her below after Owen's picture of him eating his hand). Owen came out crying and instantaniously was given a 9 Apgar with a 10 10 minutes later. As soon as he hit the warming table he started sucking cause he was ready to eat. See below. He has a lot of hair with a mullet (Serious up front, all party in the back).


He's got huge feet (like daddy), a Brown-family Chin (cleafed chin), and long, long fingers.


Here's m'boy in his first bath.

He's such a happy baby and is all about eating and sleeping (my dream days). He's strong and is already pushing off with his gigantic feeI can't wait for everybody to meet him.