Elliott Joseph Izay

So about a week ago I sat down to write a blog realizing that I had been home for close to two weeks and had not written anything about Elliott's birth. So I was working on a writing it all out when somehow I accidentally deleted it. I was too frustrated to retype everything I just wrote so I turned it off. I will give it another try.

Today Elliott is 3 weeks old. He was born at 5:15am on May 27, 2010 and weighed 8 lbs. and 2oz. We checked in to the hospital Wednesday evening the 26th and were going to induce Thursday morning. Summer began having heavy contractions around 2-2:30 in the morning. She went from 2cm dialated to 10cm in about an hour, pushed for about 10 to 15 minutes and our son was born. So we were in labor for a little less than 3 hours. I was under the assumption that this usually took anywhere from 12 to 24 hours so I was prepared for that. I was not expecting 3 hours, that's crazy talk!

So everything went really smoothly, and everyone is happy and healthy. The first few days home from the hospital were a little scary. Here you are with a little baby who has no idea where he is or what is going on, and all of the nurses, doctors, family members who have been helping you are gone. But we are adjusting well, and Elliott is great. Lately some of his favorite things to do are eat, sleep, poop, cry and scream.

I need to be better about updating this a little more often. It's hard to do when you have a little baby to hang out with instead. I'm really excited he is here.