Few More Henry Photos

Henry Jacob Parla

Well he's here - a little earlier than planned but we're thrilled! Henry was born on January 29, 2010 at 12:21pm. He weighed 7 pounds, 5 ounces and was 19 1/2 inches long.

The delivery went smoothly. My water broke around 1:00 in the morning and we headed off to the hospital around 3:30am. I wasn't having any contractions so they started me on some pitocin to get things going. Henry was not so kind as Oliver in that he made sure I felt all of my contractions this time around, but once the epidural kicked in things were great and I couldn't have asked for a better delivery.

Oliver has been very sweet with his little brother. He wants to hug and kiss him all the time and pet his head with affection. But being the energetic two year-old he is, we do have to remind him to be gentle. But we are looking forward to seeing how Henry and Oliver's relationship cultivates. So far, so good!

Oh an P.S. - we don't love Winnie the Pooh - the outfit is the result of a lost bet with friends...

All In One Day

Yesterday proved to be an eventful day, despite all the rain and being somewhat homebound. Both of my children (one on the way) had their own little adventures.

Oliver had to have an EEG done Monday morning at Loma Linda Children's Hospital so after staying up until midnight Sunday night and getting up at 5:00am on Monday, only to be lured to sleep by some apparently awful tasting medicine, our mission was completed. Oliver fought going to sleep at the office any way we could, but finally he gave in and slept through the whole procedure. Thank goodness it's done and I hope we don't ever have to do something like that with him again.

I have learned that my son is a home body though. We stayed in a hotel over night Sunday night so we could be close to the hospital and every now and then Oliver would ask to go home. This request became more frequent during and after the test on Monday. Then later that day at home we tried to take Oliver to an indoor play place - a whole giant room filled with every kind of toy a toddler could enjoy, but he simply wanted to stay home. But I guess I can't blame him after the morning he had and it raining like cats and dogs outside.

So now onto Henry's adventure which proved to be not much of one in the end. Around 9:30pm we headed off to bed and I noticed I had some spotting going on so I called the doctor and he recommended that I go to the hospital just to make sure everything is okay. Kindly, our wonderful friend Becca came over to stay with Oliver (who was sleeping soundly) while we went to make sure all was well. After checking in and waiting for what felt like forever as Joe and I were so tired and poor Joe had a terrible migraine, we finally got put into a room that I am sure used to be the broom closet and I got hooked up to monitor the baby and my contractions. The baby was doing fantastic and I did have about 3 or 4 contractions while I was there, but since I was not dilating they sent us home. This of course was fine with both Joe and I as we already had a long day as it was and were not really prepared to have Henry surprise us just yet. But it does remind me that I better get on the ball because he is going to come sometime in the next three weeks and I still have more to do to prepare for him.