Here He Is

 Born 1:40 p.m. on October 17.  8 lb. 15 oz. and 22 inches.

 Mommy and baby Joshua Matthew.  My easiest delivery and fastest.  Only about ten minutes of pushing.

 Proud parents.

 My big boy.

 Oldest sister and baby brother.

 The brothers.

 Kimberly and according to her "my baby."

 Relaxing.

 Coming home at 2 days old.

At home at last.

Almost time

I have had several false alarms so far.  But I should have known better.  I never go early. Tomorrow is the due date but I am scheduled to be induced on Monday.  Now I kind of hope he doesn't come until Monday since I will get the doctor I want and we already have it arranged for Ray's parents to come over and be with Kimberly and pick up Timmy and make sure Sheila gets off the bus.  If I do deliver earlier in the day than the afternoon they can pick up Sheila early too.  We go in Monday morning at 7 so we will pretty much be able to get the kids completely ready and then Ray's parents will only have to stand out with them to get on the bus.  If the bus comes on time we may be able to put them on the bus even before we leave.  What would be funny though is if I go into labor naturally on Monday morning and don't have to be induced after all.  I have had other signs that labor is approaching besides contractions but they disappeared today so I hope if we wait it out today than he will wait until Monday to come.  I will try to post more regularly once a new schedule is established with the baby.

Frustration

That is how I feel this morning.  We got home late from the fair last night and since Ray has class at 8:30 we decided to have him take the kids to school and let them sleep in a little bit.  That backfired in our faces.  I need to have one of the booster seats in the van so I can pick up Timmy so Ray put the one in his car and then we got the spare one out for Sheila (who legally doesn't need one anymore but the seatbelts bug her).  She threw a huge tantrum about it and we had to threaten her to get her in the seat and fight her to get the seat belt on.  I was so ready to make her walk to school. She does this almost every time we take her to school.  Now she is going to be late.  I told Ray to make her get a tardy slip from the office.  Also we will not be taking her to school again.  She will be getting on the bus every morning for now on.  And we got the new bus schedule yesterday and the kids bus is going to start coming 15 minutes earlier in the morning so now we really have to get up early to get them on the bus.  Why does she have to be so stubborn?  Why can't she see reason?