Who does he look like?

Okay so its a little hard to tell from this picture of Mac since its not exactly the same angle, but he definitely looks like his mom. The second picture is actually the one taken of me before I left the hospital. I wish you could see him in person because it is freakish how much he looked like this picture of me. Of course he is already changing and looking different. Jessica thinks maybe he looks more like Doug already, but its hard to say. I promise to put up more pictures soon.

Finally a picture!

Sorry it has taken us so long to get a picture up here. Trust me it was not for a lack of pictures. Maybe we'll set up a flickr account or something. In the meantime, here is one our favorites - we like to call it the glow worm picture.

Happy Birthday to Mac!!!

Well most of you have probably heard the news already, but our little man arrived yesterday at 12:59 pm. Thats only 6 hours of labor start to finish which is pretty amazing. I have to confess that it really wasn't bad. It was a wonderful day anyway because we got our little boy, but we had a great experience too. We had a fabulous nurse who helped us to sail through the whole event pretty calmly. Mac might have even gotten here sooner, but we had to stop and wait for the doctor to finish a surgery she was performing.

I'm recovering really well and feeling great all things considered. And Mac is doing great!!! The pediatrician saw him today and said he was perfect (which we had already decided as well). He has gone for his own little surgery at the moment so we hope all goes well with that.



And finally here are the vital statistics:

Born 3/3/08 @ 12:59 pm

Weight 8 lb 9 oz

Length 21 inches

Feet are huge!!


We will post some pictures when we get home and have a chance to go through them.

Guess my weight!!

Okay so nobody better guess MY weight unless your looking for a fight.

We are however starting a pool to see who can guess the closest to Mac's weight at birth.
Here's what we have so far:
Samantha - 7 lbs 8oz
Doug - 8 lbs 10 oz
Lynne - 7 lbs 9 oz
Jessica - 8 lbs 1 oz
John - 8 lb 7 oz
Sharon - 8 lb 9 oz
Eric - 8 lb 5 oz
Sarah (our neighbor) - 7 lb 13 oz

All guesses must be in by Noon on 3/3/08 to count. (NOTE: there is no prize; we can't actually bet since Doug is a church deacon now:)

EDIT
Tom also guessed 8 lb 7oz, so it would be fitting for Mac to weigh that much since the two people he is named after guessed that amount independently.

Still Going

There is nothing new to report, but I know we have so many loyal followers that are checking the blog constantly, so I figured I would give you an update.  We are just hanging out hoping something will happen.  It would still be nice if Mac would come on his on prior to the induction.  However, just having a deadline for when he will come is helping us to be more relaxed about the whole thing.  No Pressure.   But we would love to see little Mac soon.

God's timing is better than mine

So apparently the eggplant was a bust, guess no one is too surprised by that.

The good news is that I went to the doctor today and everything looks good. They did some fetal monitoring and Mac is looking healthy. The doctor also said something about him being "big" but I did not ask for details on that. I really don't want to know at this point. He has to come out one way or the other so I might as well not worry about how much he will weigh. Its too late to put him on a diet and he is certainly getting plenty of exercise already.

The best news is that we are scheduled to be induced Monday morning at 6 AM. Despite how early that is we are really excited!!! Turns out to be good that I didn't go into labor already because the hospital is full. They expect some rooms by tonight, but there would have been nowhere for me to go if he had come last night.

So now we have a plan and we sorta know what we are doing. Hopefully our next post will include some BABY PICTURES!!!

Eggplant Parmesan and Snow?

So we heard from several different people on Monday that eggplant parmesan is the way to induce labor. In fact, there is actually a restuarant in Atlanta that guarantees you will go into labor within 24-48 hours or they will give you money back. Here's a link to an article we found about it. Of course that is the other side of Atlanta (probably 2 hours away) which would certainly guarantee I would go into labor, just that I might have the baby in the car.
We found that Johhny Carino's here in Athens serves eggplant parmesan so we decided to try it last night. It sounded good anyway (as long as Doug didn't have to eat it). Hopefully we will have some results soon.
It has now started snowing here as well. Nothing too exciting, this is still Georgia after all, but between the two events surely something will happen today.