And So it Begins....

And so it begins....you may remember the titles of such posts from May 2007 over at the trips blog....but they've had their fun in the spotlight (for at least a few days). Let's turn our attention a little further down South to the lovely Durham area.

Considering no one knows about this blog, posting baby updates may not be all that exciting...but I'm guessing soon it will be filled with a lot more interesting things then what is currently occupying my time (i.e. my business school shenanigans).

In any case....it was a typical evening that just happened to be Kristi's official due date. I finished up my first day back at school, a riveting ILE workshop, and came home to do some work on my computer. Yes, that work may have involved two separate Fantasy Football drafts, but that in itself is a lot of work. Kristi was doing what she loves...some scrap booking (of my China pics) and then headed off to the gym. The Gym?? Yes...how the heck a 40 week pregnant woman can still go to the gym is beyond me, but she does love her aqua-moms class and this particular night decided to really press the issue and do some BodyPump. BodyPump? Well for those of you who don't know what that is, it's a class that basically does weight circuit training with dumbbells to music.

After coming home from the gym, Kristi mentioned how she thought her workout caused some tightening in her stomach. I made her a delicious and extra healthy fruit smoothie and a deliscious egg sandwich (the only thing she felt like eating besides Chex)...and she was soon falling asleep to reruns of MSW. Yes, that is Murder She Wrote, and Kristi is Jessica Fletcher's #1 fan. Being the diligent student I am, I stayed up reading over my pre-assignments after midnight. It was getting close to 12:45 as I was wrapping up, and what do you know, I hear Kristi in our bedroom. She woke up and before we knew it, her water had broken.

The funny thing was, was that it wasn't at all as I expected, to be rushed, frantically running around the house. Now yes, we had both packed our bags for the hospital about a month earlier, but we took our good old time, after talking to the doctor on duty....I even had time to shower and shave.

We ended up at the hospital around 2:00, making our way through the emergency room up to the maternity suite. Once the doctors had confirmed that Kristi's water had indeed broken (that took 7 years of medical training?). By the time we made it through there and onto the delivery suite...the day had just really begun. No sleep and it was about 4AM....