Friday, May 28, 2010

Meet Cameron!

(Jared here - filling in for Marcie for this post... Hi everyone!)

Cameron Neil Austin has arrived! He was born on Thursday, May 27th at 7:30 am. He weighed 7 lbs. 12 oz. and was 20.5 inches long. Marcie did an outstanding job and delivered (once again) without ANY anesthetics!

We were a little nervous about the long drive to the hospital this time since we now live way out in Queen Creek (or San Tan Valley), but we made it. We arrived at the hospital around 11:00 pm and Marcie was in labor with regular contractions all night. At 6:00am, the decision was made to go ahead and break her water, which sped things up quite a bit.

Cameron couldn't have picked a more convenient time to send Marcie into labor - I am out of school for the summer, Marcie's mom and sister are in town, and we got to watch the suns game on Thursday night! (We don't have cable at home)

Jokes aside, we are VERY happy and feel VERY blessed to have a new little member added to our family. Ethan has been a little confused by the tiny wrinkled wiggling baby that's been hanging around. Ethan doesn't know how to react when Cameron cries, and so Ethan starts crying too! Ethan has given Cameron several sweet kisses, but has also requested several times for us to put Cameron "away!" (He repeatedly says "away" meaning he wants mommy to put Cameron back in his little bouncer).

Marcie is recovering quickly and Cameron is turing out to be a very good baby. He hardly ever cries, and he is a good eater.

Welcome home Cameron! We love you!

10 comments:

Jaclyn said...

Is it just me or does Cameron have those same adorable Ethan lips?! What a beautiful baby. Hope he continues to be easy on you!

Adrian said...

congrats! He is beautiful!

April Austin said...

I cannot wait to meet that sweet baby! Your kids are apparently all going to be blessed with Marcie's amazingly full lips. Completely unfair. I've got a little package to send you guys so watch for it. Congratulations! I love you guys!

Cheryl said...

Congrats! He is so adorable, love his name too!

The Leishman Family said...

Congrats!! He is adorable Marci & Jared! Ethan will adore him as soon as they can play together...so fun!

FamilyKolbaba said...

Hooray for you guys! Good luck with your little boys. I keep wondering what it would be like to deliver 1.5 hours after my water breaks.....way to go speedy Marcie!

Julene said...

CONGRATULATIONS! i'm so excited for you! he is sooo cute! of course, that is is no surprise.

William and Marianne said...

HE IS PRECIOUS! Congrats!! :)

Amy said...

YAY for the Austin Family:) Congrats! He looks just like Ethan! Such a cutie! Glad to see the wonderful blessings in your lives~

Chelsey Howard said...

He is so cute!! Congratulations!! Marcie, you are crazy for not having any drugs!! You are so much stronger and braver than me!! I'm so glad that he's here!!