Pictures are Posted!

There are new pictures finally uploaded! Here are the links:

Lauren's Baptism: http://picasaweb.google.com/hoosier.nik/LaurenSBaptism

Christmas: http://picasaweb.google.com/hoosier.nik/Christmas2007

There are many more pictures in my gallery on Picasaweb, so check them out too!

Lauren is Here!

I'm finally getting around to uploading pictures and such, so thought I'd post a quick blog. Most of you have probably heard that Lauren Taylor Wolf has made her arrival. She was born on May 10, 2007, at 1:07pm. She weighed 8 lbs, 3 oz and was 20 in long. She looks like big brother Carter, and she has dark brown somewhat-curly hair, big hands with long fingers, and tiny ears! Labor was good -- I went in to be induced at 6:30am and was already having regular contractions eight minutes apart. With just a little pitocin and breaking my water a little after 8am, labor was underway. Contractions got hard pretty quickly, and by 11:15am I was 4.5 cm. The anesthesiologist was paged and by 12:30p I had my epidural, along with some pretty sharp pains. The nurse checked, and in a little over an hour I had made it to 9 cm! Ten minutes later, the doctor said to get me ready to push. I started pushing at 12:55pm and she came at 1:07pm -- out in six contractions!! She was a great delivery and I was up and around with her that first night.

We came home from the hospital on Saturday afternoon (May 12) and have been adjusting pretty well. She's a great eater, and breastfeeding is going great. Carter is adjusting to not having all the attention, but is doing pretty good. It's going to take some time to get a routine going and for him to be used to having her around (and not having Mommy to himself!!).

The pictures are uploaded into two albums:
http://picasaweb.google.com/hoosier.nik/Lauren
http://picasaweb.google.com/hoosier.nik/LaurenAgainFromOthers

I'll upload more as we get them. Enjoy!!