Holiday traveling is OVER!

We just got back from San Antonio, taking Christian to see 3 grandmas, 4 aunts, 3 uncles, 2 grandpas and 4 cousins. That is a lot of cheek pinching. Poor guy, the trip seemed to stress him out. Either it was something Julie ate, or all the traveling, commotion or whatever but we are very glad to be back home. He was a little fussy last night when we got home and was up every two hours, but today he seems like he's getting back into his routine.

Julie is a little under the weather now also. So where are we going for New Year's? No where!

Everyone was so excited to see Christian. After all, he is the perfect little child. I'll post pictures of him in his Santa suit here soon.

Till next time...

Christian

Christian, originally uploaded by JoelGonzales.

Isn't he beautiful. I know, I know, I'm probably being biased, but this is the most beautiful baby boy I've ever seen.

Mom and I were trying to get close-ups of his hands and feet, and this is what turned out. Gotta love it. I'm making prints for the Grandparents and all his aunt's and uncle's.

It's hard to get these little guys to pose for you.

He's HERE!

It's been awhile since I've posted on here, but I've been pretty busy with school, work, and taking care of my wife while she was pregnant.

She had a really good pregnancy (I know, I know, coming from a man). All she had were really bad backaches.

So we went to the doctor on Thursday, Nov 18th (his due date), and my wife tells the doctor "Please, get him out of me!" in a half joking half serious tone. The doctor tells us "OK! they have an opening tonight to induce you". That hit us kinda hard, we weren't expecting right then and there to have the baby. After almost 10 months, we weren't ready. :) So SUNDAY we go in at 8pm to start the induction process. They gave Julie Cytotec to get her contractions going through the night and at 6am she started on Pitocin. The contractions were pretty frequent and she we uncomfortable. I don't know how much she slept that night, but at around midnight, the nurse gave her a sleeper to help.

Well after going into the hospital dilated to a 1, that next morning....still a 1. Problem was that the baby was stressing out a little bit during that process. Nothing major, but with no change in Julie, it was probably going to be a long labor, and the doctors felt that wasn't good for baby. So then we get the worst news. C-Section. It wasn't an emergency C-section, they talked to us about it, we discussed it, and then they brought me my scrubs and wheeled Julie into the OR. Needless to say, I was a little scared. When I walked into the OR, they had Julie ready so I walked to her face to talk to her. I stayed with her (as opposed to watching the surgery) until they said "we got a head! - get your camera". All fear left me at that instant and I became excited. I took some pictures, and then he started crying, which made Julie cry. They held up Christian and said "Congratulations, you gave birth to a toddler!". 9 pounds 6.8 ounces. He was a big boy. 21" long.

So he's here now! What made me write some more is that his belly button fell off yesterday. Now it's much easier to change his diapers - of which, I'm a total expert now.

Mom is recovering nicely, she was up and walking a day and a half later, and starting weening herself off the pain medicine. She has been a real champion through all this.

I'm a proud papa now! Life is getting good.