I know the people who read this all know that we had the baby but I figured it was only fair to acknowledge that the subject of all my whining in the past 9 months has made his appearance.

I sat at the computer at about 5am on June, 1, the day of my scheduled c-section and contemplated writing a blog entry because I was not sleeping. Why, you ask? Not because of my excitment at the impending birth. No, instead I was in labour. Yes, my son was so eager to arrive that I went into labour the night before at about midnight. It wasn’t too bad (especially compared to my previous labour which was induced and BRUTAL) but it was enough to keep me from sleeping. The end result was that we got to the hospital several hours early and they performed the surgery at 9:30, rather than the scheduled 12:30.

I was more nervous this time around but everything went smoothly and, as you have all read on my hubby’s blog or heard from us in person, Kieran Nicholas arrived at 10:26am weighing 10 pounds 12 ounces. He looks quite a bit like his sister did at birth, including at least one dimple!

We are so happy that he is here and we are very pleased (so far) with his sleepy and relatively easygoing personality. It may not continue this way as he “wakes up” more in the coming weeks. But so far he has been a relatively good sleeper and a calm baby.

I can’t express my feelings as I look at this new little person. I’ve been carrying him for the better part of a year and yet I am just getting to know him. He is beautiful and so precious and I am eager to see what kind of a boy he will be as he grows. I want to savour these early months more this time around. Right now I have little choice but to sit around and enjoy him because I am still recovering from the surgery.

Anyway, now that I’ve figured out how to post pictures you can expect to see many more shots here in the future.