The post you've all been waiting for...

I am proud to introduce:

Morgan Rockwell Babcock

(being held by his proud Father)

He was born March 18, 2008 at 5:40PM. He weighed 7 pounds 13 ounces and was 21 inches long. Dave says he looks like me. Admittedly he does have my mouth, my nose and my ears. However, I think he has Dave's eyes, and chin. The older he gets the more I think he has Dave's face shape too. All in all he's a pretty good mix and we think he's adorable.

It was love at first sight. From the moment they laid him in my arms I knew that my life would never be the same, and I was so grateful it wouldn't be.

He sucked his thumb all the way from labor and delivery to the maternity ward. (He first began sucking his thumb as soon as they laid him on my stomach.)

I've only seen one other baby in my life that has had bigger feet than Rockwell (Becky's baby Luke). I picked up one of his little feet in my hand and was amazed to see this big bird feet on a little baby.

We were (are) so mesmerized by him.

The first night Dave slept on the couch in my room holding Rockwell. It was so adorable to watch this grown man and new father spell bound by this little baby. Dave was so nervous about Rockwell not breathing he kept licking his finger and sticking it under Rockwell's nose to make sure he could feel air. Dave didn't get very much sleep that night.

I wasn't very tired that night after the delivery for some reason, but the next day i was EXHAUSTED. I was nervous about holding Rockwell in my arms in case I fell asleep and dropped him. Since I had been sleeping on an incline pillow (so basically sitting up) for the previous six months, I felt better about letting him sleep on my chest. It also hurt way too much to even TRY to roll over, so I wasn't worried about that. Rockwell slept in this position (on my chest like this) up until about two weeks ago!
It was a very hard pregnancy, relatively easy delivery, and its has been a turbulent last few weeks, and I am loving motherhood.