Baby Levi has arrived!!

Levi Joseph Chapin was born on Friday, July 18th at 1:15 AM. He weighed 7 pounds exactly and was 20 inches long. That is the essential information. But, like Paul Harvey says, here is the rest of the story...

So, Thursday night, Courtney and I were planning on helping her sister Marnie and brother-in-law Ryan move a bed into their new home. Marnie came over to our house after we got out of work because Ryan was playing basketball (or something, pardon me if I don't remember all the details). Ryan was coming over around 7:30. So before he got there, we all decided to take Prince for a walk. Before the walk my mom called so I was talking to her while I walked Prince, and Marnie and Courtney were following behind me. All of a sudden, I hear "Matt....Matt....MATT!!!". Semi-annoyed, I turn around and said "WHAT?". Courtney's water had broken. Not a trickle either. So, Marnie ran back to the house, got our car, and came and picked us up. An hour later, we were off to the hospital.

I bet when we left on our walk, Marnie had no idea a day later she would be holding her new nephew.

We got to the hospital and they examined Courtney around 8:45. At this point she had started having contractions, but nothing too serious. The doctor examined her and said she was dilated to 6 or 7 already. We couldn't believe we were that far along already. So they took us to a birthing room, and around 10:45 they told Courtney to start pushing. It all happened so fast Courtney didn't even have time to think about getting an epidural, so everything was completely medication free. We were both pretty excited and were sure baby Levi would be joining us soon. Unfortunately, while the labor was much better than expected, the delivery was not. After two and a half hours of pushing, Levi finally decided to join us.

Levi sure is cute, but I bet he has no idea how hard he made his mommy work.

Now we're home and trying to get settled in and adjusted to life without any sleep. Prince is also very excited about the new addition to the family. He wags his tail whenever he sees Levi but also seems very confused whenever he makes any noise. His schedule has been thrown way off too but he's holding up well.

Prince is trying to figure out what the heck this squirmy thing is on the bed.

I'd write more, but I think I hear someone crying in the distance...