Anna Grace!

About 2:15am on Sunday morning, April 10th, I woke up to Amanda’s voice in the other room, “honey, I think my water just broke!”

There are very few words in the English vocabulary that will get a husband out of bed faster than those. After a few semi-frantic delirious paces around the room, Amanda told me to call our parents, the doctor, and the hospital to let them know we were coming.

I dialed the hospital’s number and spoke into the phone, “My water broke! We’re coming in to have a baby!”

The nurse obviously thought this was quite funny and said, “your water broke sir?”

Realizing that I had just made myself the laughing stock of the maternity ward, I corrected myself and asked what we should do next.

After a few minutes of packing up the car, we were gone. As we walked the hallway from our van to the maternity section of the hospital, we stopped every few minutes as Amanda’s contractions were strong enough to keep her from being able to walk. Finally, about 3:15am Amanda laid down on a bed in the maternity ward and waited for the doctor.

When the doctor arrived and found how far along Amanda was, nurse chaos ensued (9 cm!). All of a sudden, there were four nurses in the room and Amanda’s bed was being moved. They pushed her to the delivery room, transferred her over to a new delivery bed, and about 45 minutes later.... we had a baby.

Little Anna Grace, was born at 4:30am on Sunday April 11th. She weighed 7lbs. 10oz., was healthy, beautiful, and had more hair than I do. We are so grateful for the new addition to our family.