OUR PRECIOUS ADRIAN

8 lbs 1 oz, 19 inches long

Adrian was born on May 11, 2010 at 7:41 am at Pioneer Valley Hospital. I was supposed to go in at 7:00 am to try to turn Adrian because last we knew he was breech. My doctor wanted to break my water after turning him and hopefully deliver without a c-section. I began having contractions around 2:00 am and the contractions came fast and strong. We took the kids to Grandma and Grandpa's and arrived at the hospital at 6:00am. I was dilated to a 6 already and was going to die if I didn't get an epidural fast.

I finally recieved an epidural after finding out that Adrian was already head down and getting ready to come out. The epidural seemed to take forever to work and I still had pain down the back of my left thigh and in my butt (probably due to a pinched nerve or something). I still couldn't quite relax but I quickly got to a 10 and I delivered him 1 hr and 41 minutes later, so only 5 1/2 hours of labor. Yeah!

Adrian has a full head of soft, black hair and is just so adorable and I'm glad he is finally here.

Lucas is such a happy, proud papi and was so good to help out and show him off at the hospital.

Josh, Brinleigh and Bella stayed at Grandma and Grandpa's house and came to visit that evening after Grandma got off work. They were so excited to finally see Adrian out of mommy's tummy.

Adrian in his "Take Home Outifit"

Adrian and I were able to leave the hospital the next day. We left around 1:30 in the afternoon and went to get the kids from Grandma and Grandpa's. Adrian did not pass his hearing test but he will take another test in a couple of weeks and hopefully he just has fluid in his ears.

The kids just love to be around Adrian and they surrounded him before I could even get him out of his car seat at home. They are all such good big siblings and always want to help take care of him.

We can't believe we have 4 kids now. We love them so, so much and they always want to take pictures with Adrian. We'll see how big of a change 4 kids is from 3.