* * * E V A N * N O A H * S H A U N * * *: April 2010

Some more Easter

Here we are 2 weeks before Noah's arrival. We went to an Easter egg hunt at the park/zoo in our new neighborhood! I'm going to post the egg dying anarchy later... That's on my mom's camera. We're really glad we put Evan in tie dye that night because I think there was more dye on him than on the eggs.

Evan waits patiently for the hunt to begin. He's super cool in his shades.

I'm still preggers here!

The egg hunt

We eat the loot.

Evan offers a carrot to the Easter Bunny.

Ev pets a bear outside the zoo.

Easter dinner at Aunt Genie's followed by what else? Rock Band!

A WALK IN THE WOODS

Believe it or not, these pictures are taken just off Forbidden Drive in Fairmount Park, which is a very short walk from our house in the middle of Roxborough. Evan and I walk down the trail to a trail head, which we named the Tricky Trail, because it goes straight up a hill and has rocks, trees, ruts, etc... You should see Evan literally run up this tricky trail - never has he done something that makes me so proud and scares the heck out of me all at the same time. This trail ends down by the river, where we sat and talked and skimmed rocks in the river together. It was a beautiful day!

The story of Noah's arrival...

Hello everybody!

I started feeling contractions around 5:30 Saturday morning. They were pretty regular, but nothing terribly painful. Our home inspection just so happened to be on the same day so Mike had to drive down to the new home and my mom drove up to Philly to babysit me and Evan. The contractions seemed to taper off a bit by midday. So I mowed the backyard and weeded. I also removed poison ivy that was strangling our stone wall and the big pine tree. Oops didn't know it was poison at the time. By the time I came back inside I was contracting every 4 minutes, then 10 minutes, then 12 minutes. Totally irregular so I figured that I would probably go into active labor the next day.. or the next. Mike came home around 8pm and the contractions ramped up and got pretty painful. I went up to take a shower and could barely do it. From there I knew we had to get out. We arrived at the hospital around 10:30 with me 6 cm dilated pleading with every hospital employee for an epidural. I couldn't even register so nobody new my name. It was the worst. I was like a wild animal telling the nurses to "stop touching me!". The epidural made everything awesome and after a short snooze I was ready to push! I pushed for less than 5 minutes and there he was! Meanwhile Aunt Genie, Jessica and my sister had arrived at our house and Aunt Wanda was in the waiting room (she got some good video of my boobs after Noah popped out - I apologize to Mike's parents who have already seen it and also for anything they may have seen while visiting me and Noah in the hospital :)

So our boy arrived at 2:28 am Sunday, April 18. He was 7 lbs. 11oz. and was 21 inches long. One of the 2 most beautiful babies you've ever seen!

Here's Brit, Evan and Jessica back at our place watching the footage.

Mima holds her new grandson.

and Grandmom does too.

Mike wasn't allowed to stay at the hospital... This is the day I left. My poor Evan really missed me a lot. I cried to be home with him! He's not feeling good here and was on a 3 day hunger strike.

Jin came to visit...

Sarah came to see the baby and play with Evan...

And my body is covered with poison ivy.

BABY NOAH COMES HOME!

Evan warned him about the paparazzi...er-ah, I mean his parents and all the pictures they require, and now Noah is living it. Check out a picture of Evan at the same age!

Here is the only picture we have leaving the hospital. Evan was not feeling well, so I am taking this picture with the baby in a car seat in my right hand. When we got home, Steph had to take Evan right up to bed, ending our chances for a classic homecoming shot...

...But as you can see, Evan rebounded quikly and save for one time when Evan asked if "we could get rid of the baby, because he poops and pees too much - we should take him back to the hospital and the doctors will take care of him...", Evan LOVES his little bro. He kisses and touches Noah all the time.