It’s funny now to go back and read my previous post.  I’ll give you a quick run down.

August 6th.  The day we originally planned my baby shower for.  I had a feeling it would be too close to my due date (the 25th) so we moved it up to the 23rd of July.   My shower gift from my best friend Leah was a generous gift card to Baby’s R Us that came with the rule that we would go there and use it together.  We met in Lansing, roughly half way between our houses, and spent the whole day together.   We met at a VERY cute little breakfast place near the capital building called Soup Spoon Cafe.  The food was great and inexpensive.  We each left full and satisfied for about $10.  From there we headed to Baby’s R Us and spent a couple hours oohing and aaahing and squealing.  I filled up my cart with necessities and fun things.  We spent a good amount of time looking at the clothes trying to find the perfect outfit to bring the baby home in.  Of course we needed a boy version and a girl version.  I ended up finding a neutral outfit that was cute and snuggly.

After Baby’s R Us we headed out to eat again.  This time Sushi Ya downtown on MSU’s campus. Wow. We didn’t realize we were ordering so much food, but it was literally a boat load of sushi.

The entire day Leah kept rubbing my belly and saying, “Dinger, come out!” and “I want to know who is in there!” And other things along those lines.

After dinner we both headed home with tears in our eyes.  It was a perfect last girls day out together before baby.  I made it home and unloaded all of my purchases.  Took everything out of the packages and ready to wash and put away.  I stayed up late and then fell asleep on the couch.  It was very early Sunday morning, about 4am when I went to bed.  I was laying in bed thinking about the two more weeks of work I had before my due date.  About all the things I still needed to finish before baby-time.  And about how great it would be to have a few days off of work before the baby comes…  When my water broke.

Since it was about 4 or 5 am, I waited a couple hours to text Leah with this message:  “WHAT DID YOU DO TO ME?!”

24 hours later my contractions were 5 minutes apart.  We headed to the hospital, meeting our doula there.  Shannon and Leah were there by 10am waiting with my dad and Ryan’s parents. After about 12 hours of labor and 2 and a half hours of pushing, our little girl arrived!

Violet Grace, born August 8 at 7:53pm

7 pounds 12 ounces, 19 1/2 inches

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