Jackson's arrival was at 8:39am on Monday, October 26. He weighed 7 pounds and 8 ounces and was 20 inches long. Go ahead...check the predictions and see who got closest. It was me! Yip! So I will take that steak dinner sometime soon, thank you Matt!
Surgery should have begun about 7:40am and we had to WAIT a whole hour!! Wow - I wonder what's it's like to not know what time or day you will have your baby - that must be weird.
Katie and Collin had to wait in the parking lot with Pops and Jarre. Mercy was not allowing any kiddos inside the hospital because of swine flu and other illnesses. This news really upset me on Sunday when the nurse called to tell me about the policy. Although I completely understand, I didn't like the fact that Collin and Katie wouldn't see Jackson until he came home.
Thanks Sada for the VERY cute shirts! I love them!
Thank you Catherine - who watched Katie most of the day Monday, so Matt and Pops and Jarre could come be with us in the hospital.
Thank you Stefanie - for picking up Collin from school and doing his homework with him. And THEN picking up both kids the next day and doing more homework and entertaining them.
Thank you Aunt Reese - for driving up from Texas to spend the nights with our kids so Matt could spend the nights with me in the hospital. And thank you for coming to hang out with me while I was in isolation in the hospital.
Thank you Dr. Hager for keeping our baby as safe as possible in my advanced maternal age. You are a great doctor and make surgery lots of fun, really!
Jackson and me - love, love, love him! He is adorable! What did we do before a Jackson was in our life?
On a side note: we have been home almost one week now. Jackson is 10 days old! My sweet Momma is here now to cook our dinner, mop my floors, do our laundry and drive me and the kiddos around wherever we need to go. Thank you, thank you Momma! This leaves me to just concentrate on feeding Jackson and sleeping.
Must go now...baby is calling.
Katie turned 4 on November 3. 
You might say we are/were a little behind in celebrating.
Luckily our spunky, happy, silly, busy, carefree girl didn't seem to mind. She takes after her mom and likes to drag her birthday out as long as possible.
Thank you Mia for the GREAT 4 year old outfit! We love it!
My dad and mom with the kiddos. Thank you Momma for taking care of us for a whole week!
And thank you Daddy for letting Momma stay take care of us here in OK.
It's hard to see this photo...Katie is the small one in the turquoise dress. This is OC's homecoming. Katie helped crown the king and queen. Actually she carried some flowers and then somehow got the little boy holding the pillow with the crown to switch with her so she could hold the crown.
Luckily some OC students gave Katie her own kid crown and ring and earrings.
Collin thought she was a bit of a showoff, but look at her smiling face.
