God's Biggest Littlest Blessing

I thought I somewhat knew how much God loved me.....until our son was born. Now I know I have no idea how much He loves us, because if He loves us all more than how much we love Cape William, it is more than I can fathom.

Overwhelmed with Joy and Love is the only way I know how to put into words the way I felt the day Cape was born. Kyle says it is surreal. Here is a run down of events:

Tuesday April 27, 2010:

8:00PM

Kyle and I arrived at the hospital and I was served a "dose" of cervidil (don't know if that's how it's spelled)so that I would start having contractions and hopefully our son would start laboring down. By 10:30 I was having some fairly strong contractions and they continued through the night.

Wednesday April 28, 2010

I was asked at 8am f I wanted to get on the list for an epidural. I said yes so that I didn't wind up delivering without it! :) Although I would do it without it the next time to have our sweet boy. At 8:30 my OB said I hadn't progressed at all, so people started telling us it would be probably about 6 or 7 in the evening before our son graced us with his presence. Well at 10:30 I was at 3 cm still, and things were looking like either he was going to take his sweet little time, or possibly not labor down enough and I would end up needing a C-section (which nurses were mentally preparing me for already just in case). However our baby had other plans. At 11:30 the nurse came in to check me again and looked up and said "you are almost a 10....you ready to start pushing?" Ahh! What a difference an hour makes. I knew something was going on though, because the epidural was being "upped" but wasn't working quite as fast as the baby was moving down. If that was the pain WITH the epidural....thank you mom for having us without one.....seriously! They had to put oxygen on me due to the contractions being so hard that they were squeezing our son's head so hard that his pulse was skipping. Scary for mommy to watch. As a was shaking like a leaf and Kyle was trying to calm me we started pushing only to have to wait for our OB to get there for 30 min.! Not what you want to hear! :) When she did arrive she handed the job over to Kyle! He got to deliver our first born child. He was elated, and so was I.

The second we saw him we both said "Cape". So Cape William Wooldridge was welcomed into this world at 12:36PM on April 28, 2010 weighing in at 6lbs 6oz. and was 19 inches long. A healthy baby boy! I knew he looked just like his daddy right away. Dark hair and olive colored skin. We still aren't sure what his eye color will be.

Call it the baby blues, or what ever, but every time I think about how much I love this sweet blessing, I am at a loss for words and only tears come. The sight of your newborn baby in his daddy's hands is the sweetest thing I can see. What a blessing. God's Biggest Blessing to us was and is His son, and now He has blessed us with our tiny new blessing in the biggest way. We love you Cape. Our Cup Runneth Over...