Pics from Home

We've been home for about 48 hours now, so I thought I'd try to post a couple of pics of the little guy. He's doing great, and is actually sleeping in his bassinet right now, which is nice. (He'll do that during the day, but for some reason he just wants to be held all night! I haven't slept in a horizontal postion in over 24 hours, but my body is realizing that sleep is still sleep, so I am getting by sitting up.)

First, here is a picture of little Josh with his eyes open. It's not the best quality, but he is looking at the camera, so you can really see how he looks pretty well. In some ways he looks a lot like Cami did, but in others not so much. I definetly think he looks like a boy & she was much more feminine looking (which makes sense of course).

Here's another, better quality, but not looking at the camera. Isn't he sweet?

Here is a view from my perspective. As mentioned before, this little guy likes to be held, so I spend much of my time lookind down to this. With a face like that though, how can you resist? As you can see, it looks like he is going to have dark hair. The verdict is still out on his eyes.

As for little Cami, she is still pretty disinterested in him, but doesn't mind all of the attention he is getting, at least for now. We are just happy to all be home as a family, and now I better go tend to the little ones! Happy New Year this week!

Joshua Warren Scoville Diggins: Just the facts

Carrie and I started our adventure as parents of a newborn and a two year old a few days ago. Needless to say, we're adjusting and busy. Carrie will do a full post when we start to catch up on sleep, but until then here are the one sentence answers to common questions and the all important pictures.

Q: Give us the basics.
A: His name is Joshua Warren Scoville Diggins, born 12/24/09 at 12:19 in the morning. 21 inches long, 8 lbs exactly.

Q: Describe his birth in one word.
A: Quick! Labor started at 5 pm that night at our house and he was out shortly after midnight. We arrived at the hospital at 10:45 pm so, this one was super quick. Before we went, Carrie's Mom told us a few stories about women giving birth in the car, she even tossed us a blanket on our way out the door ,"Just in case". None of this was comforting.

Q:How's Mom doing?
A: Like nothing even happened. No drugs, No inducing, super fast recovery. My wife does a lot of amazing things, but this one takes the cake.

Q: How's big sister doing?
A: Again, like nothing even happened. She's not jealous, she treats Josh just like she treats every other child, she completely ignores them and goes about her own business like they don't exist. We've gone out of our way to introduce her to Josh, but as of now she just doesn't care, and that's just fine.

Q: How's the little guy? What's he like?
A: The first completely mellow member of our family. Very healthy, cries in spots, but mostly a very content child. When he's awake he has to be held, that means hanging out with him at all hours of the night. Hold him and you won't have any problems, sit him in the bassenet/bouncer and you will have problems. Other then that I am marveling at our good fortune with this one, and he's a Handsome Devil too!

Q: Any Scholarship offers yet?
A: A few, but we're holding out for BYU and Penn State and then it's going to be a tough call.

Our Christmas Eve Baby!

Dad hanging out with the kids on Christmas Day

Josh is working on his first tan.

Carrie later on after giving birth. Yup, not even 24 hours later. My wife is the Rocky of Childbirth, she can take absolutely anything and just keep going. ( Ivan Drago Voice) She is like piece of Iron.

Our peaceful, mellow child.

Time is Up!

Well, after months and months of waiting, we have finally reached the due date! And you though I meant we had the baby - sorry, no. Actually, with all of our false alarms this time around, we are both more than shocked to be just a home chilling right now. I had our presents bought & wrapped weeks ago, hospital bags in car, Cami's bags labeled with each item that was in them etc., but to no avail. Over the weekend, we had some pre-labor symptoms that had all of my sisters thinking we'd be done by Sunday for sure, and us to for that matter. I think we are almost to the point of just letting loose here, not constantly picking up & doing wash so their won't be a stitch of laundry, etc. Maybe if the house gets a little messy, then that will be the time to go into labor - who knows? So while we try to keep busy here, just though I'd let you know - I am officially 40 weeks! And Merry Christmas! (As for actual news, we have another doctors appt. tomorrow, where I am sure I'll have to set an induction date, so I'll post that when it happens.)

I'm in labor...just kidding!

Well, I just wanted to let anyone who might be wondering know....I'm still pregnant! Not that this is a big deal, and not that we won't have the baby in the next two weeks, but clearly yesterday was not the big day. In honor of this, I will post a picture of me still pregnant. This photo isn't the best quality, but I realize I haven't documented this pregnancy as well (guess I had other things to keep me busy...active 2 year old) so there isn't much to chose from in the last week. Alas, this was the same outfit I was wearing yesterday on our trip to the hospital. Chris was kind enough to say that it was just a dry run - now we know we can get there, as well as my parents out to watch Cami, before I have the baby, right? I guess I should have paid better attention the wise warning from my older sister about the severity of pain and closeness of contractions during her false labor. Truly though, you can probably tell I am still confused by the whole thing, but after a day of contractions, we are no closer to seeing little Josh yet. So, oh well...back to square one on the labor front! And Merry Christmas everyone!