John William with His Big Sister

Claire was very excited to meet baby brother and I wanted to share some of their pictures together over the first month:

New Year's Eve 2010: The Arrival of John William

I am finally getting around to putting John William's arrival on the blog! Much to our surprise as we were getting ready to go out to eat on New Year's Eve my water broke. It was about 5:30pm and after spending some time debating whether or not I was really in labor and calling the doctor, Todd and I ended up checking in at the hospital at 7pm. I was having plenty of contractions by that point and was dilated so they decided to go ahead and do the c-section right away. John William was born 3 weeks early at 9:04pm on New Year's Eve. (He is already impressing his Daddy by being a very nice extra tax deduction for 2010!) He weighed in at 6 pounds 12 ounces and was 20 inches long. Both sets of grandparents were there for the arrival and got to meet John William after about an hour of warming under the heaters to get his temperature up. Big Sister Claire slept soundly at home while Uncle Tim and Aunt Rhonda babysat for us until Grandma and Grandpa could get back to the house.