Our Baby is Finally Here!!!

After almost 30 hours of labor, Our perfect little angle was born. Although his due date was October 26th, Gage arrived on Thursday November 1st, at 2:05 pm. At birth he was 7 lbs. 8 oz. and was 20 inches long. Because Jackie labored throught the entire day before, we thought for sure he would be born on Halloween. After he was assesed, he met his mom, grandpa and grandma Terry, and his aunts Sabrina and Missy. I then took Gage and followed the nurse down the elevator to the Mother-Baby floor where Jackie works. All of her friends and co-workers had been anxiously tracking her progress on the Labor/Delivery board. As we walked into the nursery for his secondary assesment and Bath, we were swarmed by what seemed like 300 excited nurses, all wanting to see him.

As I sat there next to the assesment table, I looked at his tiny hand wrapped around my index finger. At this point I realized just how lucky I was to have a beautiful baby that was born full term and healthy. While mom was getting fixed up, Our very helpful nurse checked him out and gave him his first bath, as a proud Grandma,Grandpa,uncle Dustin and aunt Mckenzie watched through the nursery window.

After we were all set up in our room, friends,reletives and Jackie's co-workers lined up to come see and hold him. All of the staff on the Mother/Baby floor were very good to us and took exellent care of Gage.

Since we thought he was going to be born on or before Halloween we picked out this cute costume for him to wear. We were lucky enough to get this picture as he held the pitch-fork.

On Saturday we we took our little devil home. Butters (our cat) was not quite sure what to think of him. For the first few days he stayed away and slept a lot. Now he is use to Gage, he just stays his distance and watches.

Right from the get go, Gage has been a very content and wide-eyed little angle. He hardley fusses and loves when people baby talk to him. Today we put him in our bed with us at 7 o'clock and all three of us slept in till almost 11. His aunt Missy and cousin Mackenzie Came down to see him and helped us give him his first bath. He seemed to handle his bath quite well. We have used this whole Saturday to lounge around and just enjoy him being with us. We could not have asked for a better more cute little boy. Dad cant wait till he is big enough to start playing,fishing and camping with. It gives me a good excuse to buy fun toys again.