Well this year started off with a big bang...or little bang to be more accurate. Emmett Greyson was born on 1/1 at 1pm. He was 8lbs 7.8oz and 21 inches tall (so I guess big bang could have worked as well). We are just so happy to have the little guy join our family and we are all in love!
Emmett certainly surprised us all coming a few days earlier than expected. Alli was SO SURE she was not going to go any earlier than her scheduled c-section date of 1/4 that she pretty much had me convinced as well. And then came New Years Eve. We attended a wonderful masquerade ball at a downtown hotel, followed by bottles of Dom Perignon at an exclusive club...who am I kidding?? We had fried pickles and mozzarella cheese sticks, and watched half a Netflix movie with plans to go to be well before midnight. Well, between dinner and said Netflix flick, Alli's water broke. Now just a few days earlier, Alli went through a similar situation that proved to be a false alarm, so we weren't exactly running red lights at 90 miles per hour to get to the hospital. In fact, we didn't even walk out the door until probably 9am the next morning. That's right, Alli's water broke so we decided to go to bed and try to get a nice night's sleep. Not exactly like the movies, right? With Allison being in the medical field, she did the quick math and realized that they would not be doing a c-section anytime soon with all those fried pickles in her belly, and since she was not having contractions, it was considered best to rest up for a big day ahead.
The next morning Gammy and Grandpa Rymer came over to watch Miri and we casually drove to the hospital obeying all traffic laws. They did some tests and determined that yes, indeed her water broke and we would have the baby that day. We were low priority compared to one mother having twins and another experiencing heavy contractions...so they stuck us in a room to watch The Hangover...the ENTIRE thing. Including commercials because it was on TBS or something. It was a LONG time. But I guess our New Years morning was probably spent like many others'...laying around watching a dumb movie after a late night. All we needed was some greasy fast food!
Just as The Hangover was ending and the Bowl Games were starting, Alli was sent into the operating room to get prepped, and I was soon called in. I sat next to where Alli laid, held her hand, and then we waited. We were so excited, wondering what we were about to have. It seemed like the longest wait...suspense was killing us. And then they said, "It's...a..." (it really was drawn out like this). "BOY!"
We could not have been happier. There were tears of happiness shed (...I may, or may not have, shed a couple of those...ahem...umm...back to the story.) I was back and forth between our baby boy and Allison, taking pictures, sharing pictures with Alli, looking at the baby, telling Alli what he was doing, and then finally holding the baby and bringing him over to see his very happy Mommy.
Later that day Gammy and Grandpa brought Miri to the hospital to meet her little brother. They said that all through the hallways on her way up, she kept telling everyone she was a big sister now and that she was going to see her little brother, Emmett. What a proud big sis! Upon meeting him, she wanted nothing more than to shower "her baby" with hugs and kisses!
What an amazing day, and what an amazing (but tiring) almost 2 weeks we've had since then! I'll leave you with a few more pictures from the day we welcomed our Baby New Year, Emmett Greyson, to the world!
