She is here!

Not only is she here, but she is laying on my lap while I give this finishing touch to my day of blogging.

She is beautiful and healthy. As you can see from the pictures she, like her brother, was born with a nice crop of hair, but hers is even lighter than Wills. She was 8 pounds, 5 ounces. She is a shortie like her mom for now, but who knows if that will last. When she was born she was all sorts of purple, but she is a normal skin shade now.

The love of my life rocked this birth like a champ. Having been through what felt like birthing hell with Will, Carrie mentally and emotionally geared up for the sequel. I have learned for myself, not through any hands-on experience, that complimenting my wife is wonderful, but one should be careful on weighing in on how "easy" or "hard" someone's pregnancy and birth was. But back to Carrie, today's baby was in a different position than Will was, which made her pain different. Her water did not fully break until about an hour before the baby came, though the doctor thought they broke it this morning. But there was a "frontal sack" (Stephanie you can correct me all you want, it won't hurt my feelings) of water that remained unbenownst to our team of helpers. Carrie started feeling really brutal pain about 4:30, at which point things started progressing very fast. She said that the contractions were more painful this pregnancy, and I believe her. She progressed to a 10 dilation and her doctor arrived around 5:55, and the baby was born at 6:15.

Oh yeah, her name is Lauren (pronounced Loo-ren, but we do not fancy ourselves pronunciation nazis) Jean John.