Saturday, May 14, 2011

Day 133 (Friday)


Yesterday was Friday the 13th!! I got up and went in to get Gus, and then we came downstairs. It was around 8:30 when I finally grabbed my phone to put in "Gus's info" like I do every morning (amount of sleep, diaper changes, feedings). When I looked, I saw that I had a text from Scott and one from my mom. The one from my mom caught my eye first and it said, "Hey there Aunt Cathy, what do you think of your niece?" The minute I saw it, I knew that Charlotte had been born.





Charlotte Emilie-Marie Ghrist was born at 6:53am and weighed 6 pounds 12 ounces, and was 20.25 inches long. Christie had her au-natural and finally had the birth that she hoped to have. She had Scott's friend Emily there as her doula and only had about 50 minutes of actual pushing. They went into the hospital around 9:30 pm on Thursday night and then she went all night with contractions and didn't go with any meds. I can't even imagine the strength that it took to get through that kind of pain, but she managed and was able to birth Charlie without Pitosin or an epidural!!

So of course, Scott sent me a picture and I started crying. I am so proud of all my nieces and nephews, and each time one of my brothers has become a daddy, I've cried happy tears. I can't wait to meet Charlie and to have her be a year and two days younger than Gus is awesome. Gus is going to grow up with Charlie and Lily being so close to his age... I can't wait to see them all together. :)

So for the morning we had breakfast, watched television, and then Suzanne came to clean. I took Gus up for a nap and then I was able to finish the DVD for the party. :)

I got him dressed (he was in pajamas all morning) and then we came down for lunch. I put him in the Brandon Webb t-shirt for the AZ Diamondbacks. It's a very special shirt because it says WEBB on the back, and that's his birth mom's last name. :)











I got a box of clothes from www.thredup.com and in the first box that I got, there was this shirt. The person that I ordered the box from had it listed as "MLB t-shirt" but it didn't say the team or player. To have it be WEBB was just pretty awesome. I took pictures and posted them on FB for his birth family to see. I'm sure they got just as big a kick out of them as I did.

We had lunch (chicken nuggets, fries and apples) and then played for a bit. 

I put Gus down for his afternoon nap and my mom called to say that they'd be arriving around 5ish. I was super excited!!! They got to our house around 5:30 and not too long after they arrived, Gus woke up from his nap. They were able to spend a good amount of time with him, and he was being a ham-bone (as usual).

Steve took Gus up for bed and my mom and I headed out to Wal-Mart for food for the party. I should have known that it'd be super busy and ONE cashier... so we didn't get home until 10:30. Steve brought in the groceries and helped me put them away. We didn't get to bed until after 11...

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