Lucas at his first doctor's appointment

Lucas went to his first doctor's appointment today and we had some good news. He is now 8 lbs. 8 ozs, which is above his birth weight. His doctor said that is a good thing. He is now 21 inches long. Lucas had a little jaundice when he was born, but it seems that is gone now. Laura had her first encounter with Lucas peeing on her though. Doctor said that we could expect his umbilical cord to fall off any time soon. Lucas is in the 75 percentile for his age group (they do not really worry about the percentile until they are older, but Laura wanted to know). He is a healthy growing boy!!!! I took some shots of him at the doctor's office.

Momma getting him ready to be examined.

Lucas was not having a good time with his check up.

Again, he did not like being almost naked and examined.

Our Bundle of joy and his first week

As everyone knows by now, Lucas Alexander Smith was born January 2, 2011 at 10:34pm. It was a long and tiring journey to get him here but it was worth all the effort (all of which Laura had to endure). So to put it into a short story: At 1 am on January 2 Laura's water broke while we were at home. We waited in the house for a while to make sure our assumptions were correct. Well, they were. We went to the Emergency Room and got admitted into L&D around 2:30 am. The room we initially were in had a leak in one of the light fixtures (I know, kind of dangerous). So we moved to our permanent room for the day. After several hours of contractions and the nurses bumping Laura's Pitocin levels to a 28 (level 30 being the highest) they gave her an epidural. Laura stayed dilated at a 3 basically all day and the doctor finally suggested a C-section. One thing to note is that our doctor was not on call for the weekend, so we had another doctor do the C-section. Doctor Caldwell was great. So after 21 hours of labor and only getting to a 3, Lucas was forcefully brought into this world (lol).
           He has been a joy and a blessing to our house. The best baby any parents could ask for. We are trying to get him on an eat/wake/sleep schedule right now. He sleeps during car rides and hardly ever cries (knock on wood). There will be more to come as he grows up. Here are some pictures of his first few days:


His birth information




His first outfit.



Momma and her little man in the hospital.



Our handsome young man.