More on My Sweet Nephew

As promised, I am finally posting more pictures of this sweet little boy.  It's been almost 2 weeks since I've seen him and I just know that he has changed and gotten bigger.  So, in honor of his 3 week birthday, I wanted to share his birth story.

As you know, he came several weeks early.  All along, my sister's time table was several weeks off from the doctors, so she wasn't surprised with his early appearance.  What brought it on was a surprise.  She began showing signs of pre-eclampsia (sp?).  The doctor called her into labor & delivery to be checked.  They monitored her for almost 12 hours and finally decided it would be better for her and sweet Andrew if they induced her.  She gave me a call at 10:00pm to let me know that if I wanted to be there for his birth, I better get on up to the hospital.  So, off I went, got a few hours of sleep at my parents and got to the hospital.  At 6am they told her it would still be awhile, so I got a few more hours of sleep.  

Thankfully, I got ancy and headed back to the hospital around 9:30.  She felt things moving along down there, was checked at 10am and told the doctor she was going to have the baby by 10:30.  Sure enough, he was born at 10:31.  When Audra makes up her mind, she has made up her mind!!

I can't even begin to explain how amazing it was to be part of this birth!!  I missed Ethan's birth, since I had my own little one at home (only 4 weeks old!  and I was sleep deprived!) and both my boys were C-sections.  it was awesome to be a part of a birth and witness this miracle.  It was a blessing to be able to share it with my sister!  I was able to pray with her as she was trying not to push.  Hold her hand and cry with her as we heard his first cries.  Then, I got to cut the cord!!  Andrew and I bonded at that very moment!!  It was so COOL.  I'm sure there's a better, smarter word, but really!!  It was so cool!!

So here are a few pictures of that special day.

As he was being measured, he just held tightly onto my finger.  Talk about warming an Auntie's heart!!

This is when I became Aunty Flash!!  He's squinting because I was taking too many pictures!

Here's my big boy all excited to go up and see his new cousin!!

Grammy and Papa getting some early snuggles!!

Sweet Benjamin getting his first glimpse of the little bundle.

Andrew with his daddy, auntie jenica and grandpa byers

i finally got a few sweet moments to snuggle with him!!

Then the boys got to come back in and meet Andrew.  They couldn't take their eyes off of him.

Ethan getting to meet Andrew was so sweet!  He was momentarily more excited about his new car than his new brother, but when the excitement of the car was over, he couldn't get over his brother!