Katherine Paige!!!

We are all so excited to finally meet our newest beauty, Katherine! Katherine Paige was born July 14th weighing 6 pounds, 9 ounces and 19 1/2 inches long. She is the most wonderful, beautiful baby and I am totally in love! As are Daddy and her sisters! Well, Grace definitely is ... Sophie does most of the time although she gets bored with her pretty quick! Grace is such a little mother. She wants to hold and snuggle Kate (yes, we will call her Kate or Katie) all day long. Even asks if she can hold her before she goes outside, which is just unheard of in this house considering we pretty much live outside!
So backing up, my due date was July 22nd. We had an induction set for July 15th at 8:00 pm. However, Miss Kate wanted to join the fun early! I started having pretty regular and painful contractions Monday (the 13th) afternoon. My contractions got to be about 6 minutes apart but I had promised the girls we could go get ice cream. So as promised, we went. I stayed in the car moaning in pain. You know I don't feel good when I pass up ice cream! After we got home, we headed straight to the hospital. I was dilated to 5 when we got there. To 8 after a couple hours, then I stalled out. With the help of Pitocin, little Kate entered the world at 3:34 am. She literally, did not make a peep! No crying at all for two days, not when she was born, not when she had shots, not when she had her bath! It was actually kind of scary! I didn't get to see her for three hours cause I had a little bleeding problem so I was pretty much out of my mind! I wanted her so bad! Once I was stabilized, I made up for the lost time ... pretty much haven't put her down except to update this blog! She was 6 pounds, 2 ounces on Thursday morning when we left the hospital and on Saturday had already gained 6 ounces ... so she is doing great!!! She is a great baby, very calm tempered, which is a nice change compared to the recent attitudes of her older sisters! We love her so much!!!

AT THE HOSPITAL!

COMING HOME! LOVING MY HOME!