Day two in the Hospital

Yesterday Owen and Grace had some visitors. The most important being Violet. She came with her Aunt LaLa, Mom Mom, and Chase to meet Owen. Pop Pop came a little later. When she came in, she ran to the side of Grace's bed. Grace had wanted to talk with her and then introduce her to Owen. Vi would have none of it. She sat on Grace's bed for about a minute and then hopped up and started saying "Ohhh!, Ohhh! Baby Owen." She was so excited and just wanted to hold him. We sat her down on the bed, with Grace helping, and put Owen in her arms. She was so excited. She wanted to cover him up with blankets (he already had two) cause he was "crying" according to her. He was ofcourse just sleeping. Then she proceeded to point out the features on his face. Here's her pointing at his chin.

Chase also wanted to get his hands on Owen and could hardly wait until Vi was done. Before she left, we were able to get our first family picture with our babies. Christina (Tia), Pastor Joel, and Pastor Dave also came up to see our little star.

So, we survived our first full day. Owen is doing well. He does very well at eating.

Here's a few pictures of us waking up this morning. He ate at about 4 this morning and then let us sleep to almost 8. He has become quite a cuddler, which is good since he's also got a bit of gas. So, he'll fuss and the only way to get rid of it is to burp him. After our relaxing morning, he had his circumcision. (He was not happy about that) and I may have been more tramatized than he was.

After his snip snip, he had some trouble relaxing. He didn't even want to eat, which for this guy is a bit change. I'll try to get some video up of Vi with Owen later.

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.

Violet's Aunt La La

What fun Violet has with her Aunt La La! And what a great picture of the two of them! We are so glad her and Chase are back in the area and so thankful for all she does to help me with my little munchkin:)

Happy Birthday Giovanny!

My bestfriend Christina's son, "Go Go" turned ONE last week!! He's so cute and such a big boy! Here he is enjoying his yummy cake! And of course Violet can't miss out on any cake action:) or present action:)

What a little party animal! For someone who NEVER falls asleep in the car we were hardly out of the driveway and Vi was out!!

Cherry Blossoms

Again, my good friend Nina and personal photographer:) continues to amaze me with her God-given talent at catching the "perfect" shot! We all went down to the tidal basin to take a few pictures in front of the Cherry Blossoms and they all turned out so well!! If any of you are in the market for a photographer I'll give you Nina's info since she is going pro!(She also does weddings and events)

"Mommy Violet"

Look at my little Mommy! This first picture is of Vi with her "wooden doll" named Taylor (her best bud!) down her shirt. Note the snow boots and upside down shades:) It was 80 outside that day, but we had to wear our princess boots!! I also can't believe I'm sharing some of these belly shots with you! But Violet wanted to feed Baby Owen some milk and it was so cute!

Me and Violet at 37 weeks!! She is so funny with always putting a baby down her shirt and this one she named Owen-he's pink:)

I can't see my feet anymore:(

Showers And Sprinkles of Love for Owen!

What a fun and busy couple weeks we've had getting ready for Owen to come join our family! My friends Christina and Nina gave me a shower for my friends from NCC to celebrate Owen and then my mom and sister gave me a sprinkle a few weeks later. We've felt so blessed and loved by everyone and thank you all for your prayers!

Here are some pictures from my favorite photographer Nina of my NCC shower! Check out all the prego ladies:) We are standing in order of who will be due first!

And here are pictures from my sprinkle:

**For those of you who haven't heard yet....I'm scheduled for a c-section Wednesday, May 14th at 1pm!! Only one week away!!