First Day of School and More

Ethan's first day of School was Thursday. My mom always had red, yellow and blue balloons for us to take our first day of school pictures by so it just wouldn't feel like the first day of school for me if I didn't get the balloons. Thank you to Emily and Matthew for picking up the balloons and taking all the great pictures and then taking Ethan to school.

I love this close up of Ethan.

So here is the story. Sorry its kind of long and there are lots of pictures of our cute little guy. My sister Emily and her husband Matthew flew into Salt Lake early Thursday morning (I think around 1:00 AM) They had a friend drop them off at our house. I started having contractions around 2:00 AM nothing really painful or consistent. Around 3:30 they were beginning to be every 3 minutes and a little uncomfortable. I woke Mark up at 4. He said we needed to go right away. I was a little concerned about going since with Ryan I had contractions every 3 min for two hours and then they stopped. I told Mark I would call the hospital. They had a hard time assessing me over the phone. So I got up and packed Ethan's lunch and wrote down some notes for Emily and Matthew. I then went downstairs to tell them we needed to go to the hospital. They were a little sleep deprived to say the least. Emily thought they needed to go to the hospital b/c her in-laws had been in a car accident. She asked if everything was ok. I said I thought I was in labor. Matthew then got really excited and said, "Ok what do we need to grab, lets go!" Emily quickly helped him realize that we (Mark and I) were going to the hospital and they were staying with our kids. I have been laughing about it ever since. We got to the hospital I was still at a 3 1/2 so they made me wait in the side room for an hour. In the mean time my contractions slowed down to every 6 min. I was pretty frustrated and thought they were going to send me home for sure. When they came to check me again I was at a 5 plus! So we were admitted! The Doctor came and broke my water around 8:00AM. My contractions never really picked up. I thought we were going to be there all day so we walked around from 9-9:20ish. WE came back to the room I had about 5 more really strong contractions and then started to throw up. Mark grabbed the trash can and called the nurse. She came in and checked me and told Mark to push the call button again. She then told them to get respiratory in my room and have Dr. Haskett come. I looked and Mark and told him "this was a bad idea, I am done!" Within 7 min. Andrew was born, no Dr. Haskett. Mark was a huge help through every contraction. I really couldn't have done it with out him. Thank you Mark. So now that you may or may not have read my really long story here are all our pictures.
Andrew Ralph Hemingway
6 lbs. 15 oz
19 in long
10:15 AM
(We think the hair looks reddish)



Ethan with Andrew

Jake with Andrew

Ryan and Emily with Andrew

This is Andrew and his little cousin Mason. They are 15 days apart. So Sweet!

Becky, Mason, Me and Andrew