Saturday, September 29, 2007

Happy Birthday, LD



Little Dan is now 1 year old! It is incredible to me how time flies.

His birth story is kind of fun. I didn't want him to be born too early...I wanted to go to the BYU football game first. I didn't think it was going to happen as I have never made it closer than 11 days before my due date and the game was only 5 days before due date with LD. I guess, however, that LD was accommodating for I got to go to the game! It was so fun and BYU beat an undefeated, 11th ranked team! Awesome!

The next morning I awoke slightly early with my water breaking...more like leaking..K's really broke and gushed...his was more like a trickle. I did laundry, packed, got my older kids off to school, made arrangements for them at the end of the day, helped DH cancel appointments at the clinic, etc. By the time we left home, my contractions were only three minutes apart...but the darn things slowed down by the time we got to the hospital. I had not been able to go "natural" with K and C, but I really wanted to with LD. So...we did! The funniest thing is that I remember right as it was time to push him out that I was so stressed about my big kids getting picked up from school. It was irrational, since one of my best friends was doing it, but I was really stressed and then he was born less than 5 minutes later!

He is such a joy to me. I waited a long time for him and I think this helps me cherish him even more! He is so happy, but so mischievous! He is a path of destruction, a tornado, etc.

Happy Birthday, Little Dan!

5 comments:

The 7B's said...

Happy Bday to LD!! Time does fly. I'm sorry we didn't talk to you. The days are way busy. He's so handsome!!

Lana said...

Happy Birthday Big Boy!!

nikko said...

How funny that you were worried about me not picking up your kids. :o)

It sounds like it was such an easy birth. Maybe I can be that lucky!

Joyismygoal said...

aww very cute

Suzanne said...

Thanks for sharing his birth story! He really was accommodating, wasn't he? :D