Welcome baby Ammon

He is finally here!! Ammon Louis Smith was born early on Tuesday morning, July 23rd.  The story goes like this: I was due on the 20th, waiting for a scheduled induction on the 25th.  On the early morning of the 23rd, at about 1:30am, I began to feel contractions, but nothing too regular and not too painful.  At about 2am I became more suspicious because they were different in their intensity, so I began to time them.  After about 30 minutes I walked around to see if they would go away, after all, I didn't want to be the girl who cried 'wolf' at 3am to have someone come watch my kids to just come home a few hours later from false labor. Well, they didn't go away and they started to become more frequent, about 5 minutes apart. So at 3am I woke Aaron up and told him that I thought I was in labor, he wanted to time them, but I just wanted to call my sister to come over because now the pain was getting worse. So at 3am I called my sister and she came right over and we left for the hospital. I was put into a room and  waited for a nurse to come in and check my progress to see if I should stay or not. At this time I looked at the clock and it was 3:30am.  The nurse came in and I was dialated to 8 cm! They quickly checked us in and got me my IV. Moments later the anesthesiologist was in for my epidural (thank goodness), by this time the pain was so intense that I found myself shaking, thank goodness for modern day medicine.  As soon as the epidural kicked in the doctor broke my water. We waited through two more contractions to let the baby drop, then two pushes later he was here!  I looked at the clock again, it was now 4:30am, just one hour after we had checked in! He came in weighing 7 pounds 12 ounces and was 20 inches long and a lot of beautiful hair. The kids love little Ammon and adore him, he has been so much fun to have.

 First glimpses of life.

 Ready for his bath, look at all that hair!

 The proud dad, happy to be at the hospital instead of at class that day. 

Big sister loves her little brother.