Giving Thanks!!

Thanksgiving brought much to be thankful for. The biggest was the birth of Aaron Thomas Caine. He wasn't due until Nov. 30th, but made a surprise entrance 5 days early. Because my entire family had planned on coming to our house for Thanksgiving...we decided to stick with the plans. I actually had a great time. The cousins would play with Elina allowing me to sneak upstairs for naps!
We were also grateful for the extra hands after receiving notice that our home insurance would be canceled if we didn't build a rail on the back deck by Saturday. The "guys" went to work and were able to finish in time! What an awesome family!

Aaron Thomas Caine!!

We are so excited to introduce everyone to Aaron Thomas. He was born on November 25th, 2008. 7 lbs. 5 oz. and 20 inches long. With Elina, I had all back labor, so it was “interesting” to see what “real” labor felt like. I didn’t like it much :( In fact I ended up going to the hospital and my contractions weren’t even that close yet. I was just dying to know what I was dilated to! I was at a 6! Okay, here’s where anyone should have already decided what they want, because I chickened out and ended up going natural…again.

“Why?” You might ask. Well, the nurses said, “you’ve already done it once so you know you can do it”…and we’ll let you use the hot tub….plus I really didn’t want a catheter :( dumb reasons, I know…..BUT, next time..I’m really going to get an epidural! So, to make a long story short, everything went REALLY well and we are both doing excellent! My recovery was way faster this time. Yay!