Baby Jace

Our precious baby boy has arrived:

Jace Dean Mitchell
March 25, 2009
8lbs 120z
20 1/2 inches
11:42 am

Due to exhaustion and feeding time, here is the quick version:

Jace is finally here and he came on his timing! I was schedule to be induced at 5:30am on Wednesday, but instead my water broke on it's own at 3:30am that morning and we arrived at the hospital at 5am. I am very thankful I was able to go into labor on my own. Overall, everything went pretty well. Labor progressed nicely, I was able to get the epidural ( I am so thankful for modern medicine), I only had to push for 40 minutes (compared to 2 hours with Hayley) and I delivered one healthy little boy! Babies are miracles! We are so happy to have Jace in our family now! He has a head full of brown hair just like Kyrsten, but seems to have many facial features that Hayley had as a baby. So far he eats well like most little boys. The nights and days seemed to be mixed up. We will be working on that. The girls are overly excited to have a little brother and LOVE to hold him. We all do! I have to give a huge THANK YOU to our family. Both sides of our family our helping out so much- thank you-thank you- we love you all! And of course a thanks to our great friends who are already calling, bring by food, and offering help. We appreciate you all.
Enjoy the pics:

Busy weekend

At one point this weekend my house was filled with 8 girls! (Poor Jeff). On Friday afternoon, my mom and younger sister came over to visit. They had planned on being here more often last week, thinking we would have a baby, but since that wasn't happening they come over hang out. Then Friday evening, my older sister and her two little girls, came over to hang out too and spend the night. We had a fun filled girls night! The little girls had a blast playing with their cousins, staying up late, getting up early and playing more! After watching the four little girls play, I was wondering if Jace is procrastinating his arrival due to the fact he will be surrounded by so many girls:) It was a fun weekend though and glad I got to spend some time with my family prebaby time. Thanks for coming everyone!

This is the girls an hour after their cousins left- exhausted from all the fun! I wish I would have taken pictures while they were here!

Jeff wasn't tortured too much from all the girls, since he locked himself in Jace's room to finish painting it. Jeff's brother Jason came down last Thursday and helped Jeff get the nursery painting started- thanks Jason! Jeff was able to finish it up by Saturday night. I love it! I think he did an awesome job- especially painting a room for the first time. Thanks babe!

Last, but not least, today is my official due date and as you can tell, we have no new baby yet. You never know how things will turn out. Soooooo, I am now set up to be induced tomorrow morning at 5:30 am. I am so excited. To each her own, but I am physically and emotionally ready to have this baby and meet our baby boy! Hopefully by this weekend will be able to post some pictures and info. Baby Time!!!!

Baby Jace Update

I am not sure if anyone cares, but if you are like me and stock peoples blogs, I thought I would write a little update about our dear little baby boy who is snug and happy in my belly! I really never thought he would still be in there at this point. My technical due date is not tell the 24th, but I started with a different due (3/16) in the beginning and made the mistake of thinking of that as my due date. I had two due dates with Kyrsten too. My first due date with her was 9/30 then they moved it back to 10/5 and she came 9/26- four days before the first one, and she came out 8lbs 14oz! So, since this is my third, I just thought he would be early like Kyrsten. My mistake. Now that I am close to my actually due date, I feel like I am over a week! I learned my lesson.
Anyway, the last two weeks I have been dilated to a 3. My doctor was surprised to see me this week, thinking I would have gone in last week. I have another appt. next Tuesday. If I make it to that one, I get to set up an appt. to be induced. I am hoping he will come before than, but am starting to feel like maybe not. So far many of the natural labor inducing techniques are not working. Today I decided to give up and just wait it out. In reality he will be here before I know it. This week would have been most convenient, but what can you do? Hopefully the next post will be a baby announcement!

The Cactus Pedal Challenge

This morning Jeff was able to participate in The Casa Grande Cactus Pedal Challenge. It was a 27 1/2 mile bike race and he came in 9th place!!! He felt like he didn't didn't race smart by starting to fast, but we think he did great and now he will know for future races. I am not even sure I could ride a bike slowly for 27 miles. GOOD JOB JEFF!

Jeff leaving the house for the race.

The beginning of the race!

The girls waiting for their Daddy.

Finish Line!!!

Now, if we could just get our baby boy to race on out, I would be even happier!