Our First Outing

We had our first outing on Saturday. We went to Grandma and Grandpa's house to see family. It was nice to have a change of scenery.

First picture is Carter's cousin, Mitch. The second picture is Grandma, and Cousins Morgan and Montana.

What We've Been Up To

Carter had his first bath this week. Other then the exploding shampoo bottle I say all went pretty well.

Carter has his days and nights mixed up. He sleeps all day and is wide awake at night. We are trying to keep him up as much as possible during the day. Dad does a good job of this. Some of their favorite activities are practicing bicycle legs and dance moves with his arms.

Pics of Carter waking up in the morning in his crib.

Today's Visitors

Nicole and James Kelker came by to visit Carter and drop off meals for Mom and Dad. Thank you Kelkers for the wonderful dinner!

Aunt Robin and Cousin Montana flew in from Colorado tonight to meet baby Carter. Montana is a natural babysitter. She just loved holding him by herself and giving him lots of kisses.

I just can't resist posting pictures. Carter's littles faces are just too cute!

Hospital Pics

Pictures from the hospital.

Going Home Pictures

Delivery Day

So we were supposed to go to the doctor for our weekly check-up on Thursday, but Baby Carter decided he couldn't wait any longer.

**If this is too much information for you please skip ahead to the next post**

My water broke Wednesday night at 9:30pm and contractions started up at 10:30pm. After watching the end of Top Chief and taking a shower we headed to the hospital at midnight. We were very excited to hear I already dilated 3cm. At this point we thought by 8am - 10am we would have our baby!

At 4:00am the contractions were still 5 minutes apart and not very strong. They started medication to speed up the process.

At 8:00am the doctor said I was STILL 3cm and my contractions were STILL 5 minutes apart. Eight hours of labor and nothing was progressing! At that point it was time for the epidural. Below is the lovely picture my husband took to document my contractions. He literally took the picture in the middle of the contraction!

After the epidural the rest of the labor was a lot of sleeping and watching the NCAA basketball tournament. I dilated rather quickly from that point (almost 2-3 cm per hour). Next thing we know the Purdue game is on and the nurse said it's time to push. After 20 hours of labor Baby Carter was born at 5:24pm.

Welcom Carter Evan Meek

Hello everyone,
Great News!! Carter Evan Meek is here! He was born Thursday, March 20th at 5:24pm. Carter weighed in at 7 lbs. 6 oz. and was 20.7 inches long. We were released from the hospital this evening and we are so excited to have the little guy home. We promise to update soon with pictures and more details about the birth; but for now Mom, Dad and Carter are trying to catch up on some much needed sleep.

Thank you to everyone for you lovely emails, phone calls and hospital visits. We are so lucky to have such amazing friends and family!