He's Here!

We have welcomed our third baby boy into the world!

Late on Saturday evening I went into labor and early on Easter morning he was born! There were so many answers to prayers in those hours, I just have to give God the glory!

We had moved into our new home at the Ronald McDonald house Saturday afternoon (blessing number 1). We had initially been told that we would not be able to move in until I was discharged from the hospital, but got a call last week that they had a room for us! That night is when I went into labor. So thankful that we were able to move in when we did, we got to just walk over to the hospital when I wasn't sure if the labor was real or not. I was not expecting to be giving birth that night. I was scheduled to be induced Monday morning. So Chris and I walked over just in case. And hour after I was there our nurse decided that this was the real thing and we weren't going anywhere!

Blessing number 2 came in that I had texted a friend about possibly needing someone to stay the night with my sleeping boys while my mom came over for the birth! I was about to tell her that we didn't need her, but thankfully I took her up on the offer and she was on her way (It was 10 min later that I was told we weren't leaving the hospital)! Labor went quickly after that and around 1am Sunday morning Aaron Ezekiel was born! If you didn't know about his heart, you wouldn't think anything is wrong with him. He is just perfect in every other way.

Blessing number 3 came right when he was born. I vaguely remember the Doctor who delivered him saying, "Wow, he has a true knot in his chord". And all I remember thinking was, "Wait, babies can die in-utero from a knot in their chords". She then told me to look and sure enough, his umbilical chord had a complete knot in it. Brings me to tears just thinking about how God protected Aaron even while he was still in me. God has great plans for this little boys life! I cannot wait to continue to watch and see those plans! I was able to hold him for just a few brief (but wonderful!) moments before they took him to the NICU. Chris went with Aaron and thankfully I had my mom to stick with me. A while later we were able to go down to the NICU to see him as the cardiologist was doing his first ECHO. We are so thankful for technology! Thankfully there were no surprises in that ECHO and things look very much like they did while he was growing. The Doctors have been such a help already.

Aaron is doing very well. He is now 3 days old and I got to give him his first bottle today! That made my Momma heart SO happy. For those who have had babies or older kids go through surgeries or the like, you know. It is so hard seeing your little one hooked up to so many machines. So hard not to be able to just pick him up whenever I want. SO hard not to just feed him when I think he needs to be fed. We are blessed that we will have this week to hold and feed and snuggle him before he goes in for his first surgery. He is scheduled for first thing Friday morning.

Pray that we would be able to use this time to love on our boy while still loving our other two! So thankful that my parents are both here and my sister too! We have such an amazing support system, I don't even know where to start in saying thank you to everyone.

God has just been so good, even when we didn't know He was working, He always was! And although these next weeks and months are not going to be easy, I know He will still be working, even when I don't see it or don't believe it. Thank you for your love and support!!

To GOD be the glory!