Jeremy Jonah

It's a BOY!! I have to admit I was quite surprised this time around. This pregnancy was so different than when I had Andrew, that I was really starting to think I was having a girl. But we are thrilled with this little handsome man, that I think we'll keep him around!
Jeremy Jonah was born on Friday, August 27, 2010 at 1:29 pm. He weighed 8 pounds, 1 ounce and was 20 1/2 inches long. He was over a pound larger than Andrew was, but he is the spitting image of his big brother!
I began feeling contractions every 8 minutes around 2:00 am with them escalating to 5 minutes apart by 5:30 am. I was checked in the hospital triage room around 7:00 am at 6 cm dilated. I got my epidural at 8:30 am and was still at 6 cm dilated. At noon I was 8 cm dilated and my doctor broke my water and then left to grab some lunch. The doctor came back at 1:00 and I was ready to go. It took half hour for baby J to arrive.

Jeremy, my mom, and Jeremy's mom was in delivery with me, but as soon as the baby was born, Jeremy ran out to the waiting room and whispered to Andrew that he had a little brother so Andrew was able to announce to everyone else that the baby was a boy. His reaction when Jeremy whispered to him?... "YES!!!" I guess he is happy his prayers for a little brother were answered!

This little man is a charmer; complete with cute dimples! Right now he only flashes them when he's upset, but soon I'm sure he'll learn to flash them to flirt with the ladies.

We aren't sure exactly what we will call him, but we know that Jeremy just isn't going to work. It's too hard... A lot of people call him JJ. I call him baby J or just J. Andrew calls him baby brother or baby boy. Jeremy sometimes calls him Junior or Thing 2 (Andrew, of course, being Thing 1 - Dr. Seuss).
We've waited such a long time for this little blessing! We are so happy he is finally here and we are really enjoying having a baby in the house!