Family of Four

So now we are a family of four!

Our sweet boy on delivery day..........

This picture looks so much like Claire's hospital picture to me!

We didn't take a good picture of our new family.... I guess another difference with the second child.... and the fact that it all went so quickly! So excuse the roughness of my appearance!

So, here's our delivery story!

It was a normal day, well as normal as you can get when you are 9 months preggo and teach 16 1st graders everday! :) I went and got my hair cut, Claire and I stopped at the pig to grab some groceries.... we definitely didn't think it was a day for going to the hospital! That night we sat down to watch DWTS and my stomach felt really tight.....so I changed out of my jeans thinking I had just gotten so big that I was outgrowing the maternity pants.... so after changing, I didn't feel any better so I decided to go ahead and tell Rob that I thought I may be having some contractions. (and as you know, when I was preggo with Claire, he didn't know until my water broke! So, I gave him a heads up this time :) So, he wanted to go right ahead to the hospital but I wanted to wait and be sure... b/c I was thinking we would drive to b-ham, they would monitor me for a few hours and then send me back home and then I would have to go to work in the morning. So if I went to the hospital, I wanted to make sure I'd be staying. So, after about 2 hours, the contractions didn't lessen, so we decided to go ahead and pack the car and take Claire to his parents' house. As of that day, I hadn't packed one single thing for the hospital. I guess that's the difference with your second child... with Claire, the bags were packed for months. So when we got to St. Vincents, I was only at 1 cm. I was fearing that I would be sent home. So they monitored me for a little while and what do ya know? The next time they checked I was at 4 1/2 and so they moved me to a room! yay! I was so shocked because with this whole pregnancy, I just knew he would come on time or late considering how late Claire was. When I got to the room I was at 6 1/2 and I was starting to get a little scared that I wouldn't have time to get the epidural! Thankfully, they got it in me and that slowed things down. At six that morning they gave me some meds to speed up things and sure enough, I was ready to push at 7:10 and at 7:22 I was holding Robert Clymer Hendrickson V. It was such an easy delivery and we are thankful! There were no complications of any kind and our little boy was perfect from head to toe! Here are just a few pictures from that day.