Carnesville: Grady's Birth Day

As promised, here are more pictures of Mr. Grady. Also, some more details. October 4th, My water partially broke at 4:00am and remained steady until we went to the hospital 6 hours later. To prevent infection, the doctor decided to induce me and after just 2 hours of contractions I went from 3cm to 10cm and Grady was ready to breathe in some Thai air. I'm in a city where I knew I could not receive an epidural, so I had a lot of time to think about it and psyche myself up for it. I told my sister today that I think the Lord gives you what you can handle, and He knew I could only handle 2 hours of contractions. Ha! I'm such a wuss when it comes to pain. I felt like I was able to breathe through the contractions well and remain calm, but when it came to pushing, you better believe I was screaming to get him out! Fortunately, I only had to push for about 15 minutes, and he was out. When we were being moved rooms, another foreigner poked his head out of his room and said, "Congratulations...sorry you had to go through so much pain." I told him, "Sorry you had to hear it!" We're just so grateful that Grady is finally here and out of my belly. He is doing great nursing and that seems to be all he wants to do. So, enough with the details and onto the pictures. Welcome Grady Perry and Happy Birth Day!

I love the big label, 'Baby Tara Perry Carnes.' It's actually only one name off...our names are almost identical. Yes, they did indeed put him in pink. They don't put specific colors with gender here, so pink it was. I think his look here is a cross between 'What?! I can wear pink" and "You stupid, why did you put me in pink?"

Meeting Daddy

Meeting Mommy

Family photo minus Caden

First family photo of the four of us. Caden wasn't too interested in Grady at first. He busted through the door and started shouting "ABC game." We put him on the bed with me then he proceeded to yank the blanket Grady was wrapped in. Once Grady started to cry, Caden got really quiet then pointed and said, "Baby, baby...touch baby." We let him touch him (more like poke) then when he left he said, "Bye bye, baby. I love."

I love his little wrinkled up face

And I love how alert he is

cute little grimace...he's very animated with his face

He has dark brown hair and dark blue eyes. Caden's hair was also brown then all fell out and came back blond. We'll see what Grady's does.

Ok, last close up of his face. I don't want to bore you. But he's just so cute to watch all-day-long.

Day 2 we tried again with Caden and let him experiment a little more. He already knew there was a baby in the room so that helped. Here he's touching the baby and being sweet

Caden being very sweet to share his pizza with his brother. I'm glad he's already learning to share...we just need to be a little more specific. For all you long time visitors to Carnesville, if you'll remember when Caden was born, Britton tried giving him a cookie. Like father, like son.