Finally, The Story of Lucy. Thus Far.

It is time to tell the story of how Lucy came to us. I'm sure you all know about the birds and the bees part, if you don't watch Cinemax after 10pm. It all started when the family went out to lunch at our favorite sandwich shop and we were enjoying a great meal and the wife says that the contraction she is having hurts really bad. I ask her if it hurts more than normal and she says "yes, really bad." This was at 12:30pm. After lunch we decide to go to Toys R Us that is right down the street from us and pick up a new breast pump since the wife was nesting like crazy. She was still having contractions and they were getting more frequent.

We got home and relaxed a bit before I was to head out and take my final exam for my class I took over the summer. The wife got a little more worried because the contractions kept coming and we decided to call her brother to come stay with her so I can go take my test. Next thing I know the wife is in the shower because her back hurt and she wanted to put hot water on it. I go in and check on her and make sure she is not in full blown labor ( I do know how to deliver babies). I am talking to her and I can see the look in her face that says this baby is on its way.

I tell her damn the test I am taking you to the hospital. I throw some clothes in a bag and grab the wife's prepacked bag along with Maggie. On the way to the hospital I call my brother in-law and tell him to meet us there. We finally get to the OB triage room and waited to see a doctor, well the wife was in there and I had to watch Maggie in the waiting room. This was about 3pm.

 My brother in-law showed up with his fiance and they took Maggie home so I can be with the wife who was 5cm already. We get sent up to the delivery room about 4pm and wait on the Doctor to come and see us. She comes in and talks to us about what is going on and such. The doctor leaves and comes back a few minutes later because the wife is in a lot of pain. She tells us to let her know when she feels like she needs to push and leaves the room. No more than sixty seconds later she feels like pushing, so I call back the doctor and let her know.

The doctor and all the nurses get ready because this baby is ready to come out. The doctor tells the wife to push no more than four times and out came little Lucy. I cut the cord and the nurse took her away to assess her and we awaited to get a good look at our new daughter and thought that was really fast. She was born at 5:05pm.

Mommy and baby are all home and healthy. Lucy is doing great and sleeping on mommy right now. Maggie loves her new sister and she has been a super big sister. We have been running into a little jealousy only when mommy is feeding Lucy and Maggie wants some attention.

Did I mention I bought the Paul McCartney tickets at 10am that very morning? We thought that if we go into the hospital on Monday the day of the show we can just give the tickets to someone. Little did we know we would have our Beatles baby that very afternoon. We named her Lucy Eleanor. Eleanor Rigby is probably my favorite Beatles song. After Lucy was born I asked the wife if she still wanted to go. She said try and stop me. I am not the biggest Beatles fan, but Sir Paul puts on one kick ass show. Of course we went and it was worth it!

Lucy less than an hour old. 

Wordless Wednesday

Maggie and Lucy (in my chair) Pic by wife

Five for Friday: Five Reasons Why Next Week Will Be Great.

It has been a while since I have done a Five for Friday and I think I have had a pretty good excuse. You know that whole baby thing? August won't be any easier for me to write on this blog, but I will do the best that I can. I will have a lot of work ahead of me.

1. We close on the house on Tuesday!

2. We get to start painting and moving stuff in to the new house.

3. We finally free ourselves from street parking and paying for laundry.

4. Lucy will be two weeks old.

5. I will start designing and planning my office and basement display of my Star Wars and sports stuff. I think I will paint the office red and gold. Go 49ers!

So much to talk about and our new baby.

Hello everyone. It has been a busy week for us. I haven't posted in a while because I have had more important things going on. Work is going great, keeping me busy. I am going to keep this post short with more to come soon.

If you haven't heard the news yet, we had the baby! Little Lucy came to us (very quickly) on Thursday. I will be posting more details as soon as things get back to normal. She weighed in at 6lbs 9oz. She was few weeks early, but she wanted to come join us. Mommy and baby are doing well and Maggie is still wondering what the heck is going on. We are all home and resting nicely. I still can't believe I am a father of two!

As the week moves on I will be posting more and a pic of our new bundle of joy.

A year later...

It's pink for Maggie. Duh :)

I knew I started this in July of last year, but I couldn't remember the date (which is really odd for me because I am good at remembering dates, I know all my friend's birthdays). Well I just checked and it was July 10, 2010 that I started this blog. As you may have read, a lot has changed in my life as well as in my family's life. I honestly didn't think I would still be doing this a year later. I do enjoying writing this and sharing some of my adventures with everybody. So I'm a week late. Oh well, it wasn't like I've been busy or anything. Thanks for sharing in my adventures.

Who knew that a year ago I would expect another baby and that we would be buying a house. Who knew I would be focusing on school and taking care of Maggie instead of working some job I didn't like. I for one am glad to be back working. I am especially glad to be back in the EMS field. I am already making plans to further expand my EMS career. I will be taking a few EMS classes while the wife is on maternity leave. I also am starting to apply to Paramedic schools, it can be pretty competitive here in Chicago as there are not that many places teaching the course.

A quick update on the house. I received several emails today and it looks like we are still on course to close on the 1st. Both of us cannot wait to move in. We love this apartment, but I really hate waiting on the bathroom!   

Will I still be going at this next year? Odds are very good that I will.

Five for Friday: Five Random Pictures

Toys in the Attic

Good news today is that the tree was finally removed and the hole was covered. Bad news is that it looks like we will be pushing back the closing date. We were really excited for Aug 1st, but shit happens and we are trying to work with the seller on getting the repairs done. Which is what we really care about. We just hope it is not too late into August as we will; be bringing a new family member home.

Gotta sign off as I have a long shift tomorrow. I get to go play with latex gloves all day.