Our baby boy is here! Early of course

Well, here he is! Announcing Anton Allen Jr., yep Tony Sr. won the name game. Mom will be thrilled that he is not Coltin, which was my original choice. He was born at home 2:07 am on 8/2/09 at 36 weeks and 2 days. Adrianna Costello, my co-worker and friend won our online raffle. I am finally posting because I actually got 4 yes count them 4 blessed hours of sleep last night. I now understand why sleep deprivation is used by the military to torture people. He has had all the fun preemie baby issues, such as breastfeeding difficulties, jaundice, he had a really juicy eye infection, and had the joy of getting his tongue clipped because he was tongue-tied. Despite the odds, we have survived the first two weeks. After he was born, we were able to wake up Joseph and Libby to see their new brother, Alex and Ian (who fell asleep five minutes before the birth) said they'd see him in the morning.

We had the joy two days after his birth of our sewer backing up and flooding the laundry room, bathroom and hallway. Really, I couldn't expect to have things go completely smoothly could I, that would be asking too much of the universe.

Tony Sr. was amazing during labor and birth and was able to catch his son. Allison said that seeing Tony Sr. with me during labor was probably the most impactful thing to watch for her. Anyway, I have an even greater respect for our clients at the birth center after having my own and only natural birth experience, and wish I could have had it that way with all of the kids.

My sister Allison and my niece Amber were able to be at the birth, which was great. I am so grateful for them both and for how they took care of me.

Sorry if I'm rambling on, the brain is not quite functioning at its highest capacity.

I am so grateful to my Heavenly Father for all of his gifts, and we have so much gratitude for Tony Jr.'s strength and health, and relish in the thought that he got to hang out with his brother TJ over this last year, and plan how Tony Jr. would bring mischief into our lives. We see Tony Jr. smiling a lot (and no, I don't believe its gas) and wonder what type of conversations him and TJ have with one another.

I was smiling while I was feeding him the other day and Tony and I laughed and said that Tony Jr. and TJ probably tease eachother, like HA, HA I get to breastfeed, and Tony said yeah, TJ's response would be, yeah, but I get her boobs when they're perfected. Anyway.....again brain function......

Love you all, hope all is well.

Love,

Tony and Jenn and kids