Time to Show Him Off

Okay, it's now time to show off baby! We've shown off our cute nephews before on this blog. Now we get to show off our cute son!


Here he is in his Maemae's arms.


















Just forget you saw the pink binky in his mouth.

























Kirby and Caleb get along very well.


















Kirby loves to sniff Caleb, and then lick him. He knows that someday, Caleb will drop many pieces of food on the ground for him to eat up.



















Big Yawn!





Just think: tomorrow . . . he'll be fifteen.














Caleb has gotten back to his birth weight, and has even pushed beyond it. We have our first doctor's appointment on Wednesday, and they like to have them back to their birth weight by then, so he's doing great.

Mom and Dad are doing fine too, though this is the first time I've been coherent enough to type anything remotely intelligent (which just demonstrates how little sleep I'm actually working on here. I like to joke that you could count the number of hours of sleep we've had in the last week on one hand;). I did discover today a V-8 product called V-8 V-Fusion. I drank one at lunch, and I actually had some energy to finish off the day! I'm going to try and find some 6-packs of it somewhere and take them to work with me.

Finally Home

Caleb Jonathan Wallace came home today. He is doing very well after several eventful days in the hospital (nothing bad, but some boys go through a little more...shall we say...stress, than others ;). He is now sleeping contentedly in his Maemae's arms.

Here's how everything went down:
Monday evening, Andrea decided to do some quilting so she would be on her feet and therefore bring on more contractions. It worked, but they were weak, and went away after she went to bed. The next afternoon, she got a call from her sister-in-law, Carol, who promptly scolded her for 25 minutes for not going to the hospital after the contractions had started (Carol has had three children). In a huff, she went to the delivery room to be checked out just so she could prove Carol wrong. She called me on her way there, and told me she would probably beat me home.

I got another call an hour later telling me her water had broken! Apparently it had broken the night before. So I headed up to the hospital to meet her. On the way, the obligatory traffic accident had occurred on the bridge, so I had to try and maneuver around the backup that had spilled out onto the surface streets. I was mostly successful and managed to get to the hospital even before she was officially admitted.

Since Andrea wasn't having any contractions, labor had to be induced. She labored most of the night and into the morning, but she wasn't progressing, and every time she had a contraction, baby's heart rate would drop and not recover soon enough (we found out later that this was because he actually had a hold of his umbilical cord, and had it draped over his shoulder. Every time a contraction occurred, he would clamp down on his cord, thereby cutting off his oxygen supply). Late in the morning, the doctor decided that a C-section would be necessary, so she was taken off the labor drugs. After she got off this drug, her contractions all but went away, and baby's heart rate stabilized. They wheeled her to the operating room a couple hours later, and Caleb was born after an uncomplicated procedure. It turned out he was lodged in the birth canal in a position that wouldn't allow him to go any further. He was a big boy! as you'll see. We stayed in the hospital until this morning after several checkups.

Of course, I took pictures!

Here's our last picture of just the two of us right before she goes into the operating room.



















Here's Caleb only a couple minutes after being born. You can see how big he is!























Mom and baby.





















Thank you all for your many prayers. They were answered in ways we could not have imagined! God is good and merciful!

-The Wallace Family

Caleb Wallace

Caleb Jonathan Wallace officially joined the world on Wednesday August 13th, 2008 at 12:45 in the afternoon. He was 8lbs. 4 oz. and 21 inches long (BIG baby!). It seemed that he didn't want to came out. So after about twelve hours of labor, and no progress, the doctor decided that a C-section was necessary to get him out with both him and mother healthy. They are both recovering nicely at Southwest Washington Medical Center. We should be home on Saturday, and I'll post pictures and more details(no, not those details) at that time. We're so happy to hold him in our arms!!

Where's Baby Wallace?

He apparently had been detained. Baby Wallace is now scheduled to be induced 8/21/08 if he doesn't choose to make an earlier appearance.
The doctor had warned us that she expected him to make a late appearance and at our appointment today nothing had changed from last week, so the doctor scheduled the inducement for next week. Interestingly (only to me), is that I was born 12 days early and he will be arriving 12 days late.

Andrea