Kyle Reese Motley

Kyle finally joined our family!

1 day old

April 24, 2008

9lbs 12 oz

21 inches long

*3 days old

Delivery Room photos...Mom and newly scrubbed Kyle. Dad and pre-scrubbed baby. Notice his chub on the arms! 3 days later and he's lost a lot of that...Those 12 days post-due date gave him lots of lovin!

We are so excited Kyle finally came to us! He's so cute and cuddlyand we love every bit of him! Both big brothers are in love with him too. They spontaneously sing songs to him all the time, anything from Silent Night (Sean's favorite since Christmas and refers to it as "Holy Night") to Book of Mormon Stories (actions included) to Rock-a-bye-baby and more. Kyle is a great sleeper - when he's in the mood - meaning not between the hours of 12am-4am. Once we get his body clock changed to earth time, Scott and I will be super excited.

Even though Kyle made a very delayed arrival to our family, he came quite easily. I had mild contractions all day on Wednesday - that I tried to keep going by lots of walking. I was hoping I would go to go into labor that day since the next morning I was to report for an induction at 6:15 am. If I could go in on my own before then, I could go to the hospital of my choosing. The stubborn side had some sort of an issue being forced into labor. In my head, I just wanted my body to do it on it's own, though seeing as how big he really got - maybe I'll go for induction closer to my due date next time around:) So around 11pm ish, contractions started getting closer together (3 min) - but still not the painful variety I've known so well. So we decided to head to the hospital figuring they were pretty close and since I was 41 weeks and almost 5 days overdue, if they were even close to the real stuff, they'd keep me around. I was a pretty nervous wreck about being turned away since I was turned away 2 times while in real labor with Sean - wasn't progressing past a 2 yet the contractions were 3 min apart and pain was as bad as it got! So this time, I was going in and the pain wasn't too bad so I was sooo nervous! Then on our 35 min drive to the hospital, they weakened from 3 min apart to more like 5 min apart. More nerves!

Walking into the hospital, there was a fire alarm going off and someone looked at me worriedly and asked, "are you in labor?" To which I replied something like, "umm, I don't know." I was so nervous to be turned away and I wasn't really feeling like Iwas really in labor, though they were rather close and regular contractions. When we made it to Labor and Delivery, there was another lady who was in obvious labor, in a wheel chair and struggling. I felt so dumb! Wondering, what the heck am I doing here? Look at me and look at her. I have no business being here and felt like I was forcing the issue because of my 6:15 am deadline.

Luckily when they hooked me up to monitors, those contractions obeyed and were 3 min apart spot on. Upon checking, I was at a 4 and they mentioned the word, admitting and I felt stress immediately lift!

I can't finish my journaling now,but know the pictures are ofmore interest to everyone...so I'll
finish later.