Forgot about this, obviously - plus big, or rather little, news

While battling a night of insomnia I realized that once upon a time I kept a blog.

Sure enough it is still here - more impressive is the fact that I could figure out the password.

Should probably note that there have been a few developments and changes in the last few years since i posted. Most dramatically is the fact that we have recently added a new addition to the family.

That's right, I picked up an new (to us anyway) truck. Of course maybe more importantly the reason we needed another vehicle was that...

Zettie Liza joined us last Sunday (March 27, 2011) at 3:36 p.m. Her delivery was far more eventful than we would've liked but everything has been just dandy ever since. She was 3 weeks early but weighed in at a very respectable 7lbs - 1 oz and 19 inches long. She would've been a whopper had she gone to full term.

Kirst woke up Sunday morning and stated "I am going to have the baby today," needless to say I wasn't convinced but had her track her contractions (yes there is an 'app' for that). She was contracting about every 4 or so minutes by about 10:30 which was frequent enough to justify a trip to the hospital for a checkup, after lunch and running some errands.

Roshanne was available to take the kids so by around 1:30 p.m. we were able to make it to Rockyview's Unit 62. Dr. Van Essen from kirsty's Obs group happened to be there at the time and was able to confirm that our 'silent dilator' was indeed ready to have a baby (plus the delivery ward wasn't very busy).

By 2:30 Kirst was comfortable, checked-in and ready to have her water broken. At 3 she was clean and composed enough to be coerced by the nurses to wander the halls for a bit to help keep things moving along - plus it was shift change for the nurses.

At 10-after we were back at the room and Kirsty was noting that she 'was ready for the epidural' and I dutifully relayed the decision to the nurses at the desk. When a couple minutes (i.e. one contraction) later they hadn't yet arrived i popped out again to relay the news.

Our new nurse then hustled in to check on things and, as you can tell by how the time clock has been running, the next stages happened rather urgently. To spare you some of the details lets just say that no epidural arrived and shortly after Zettie did our nurse was finally able to introduce herself to Kirsty.