New Baby

This is my first attempt at blogging, so bear with me.

We are happy to announce that Benny II now has a name and a birthday. This morning (Feb 7) at 1:43 am, Anderson Clark Cotterell (Andy) was born. Faith had been having contractions all day yesterday that got stronger and more frequent as the day went on. I still went to my classes, expecting at any time to get a call from Faith letting me know it was time to go to the hospital. After my last class was over at 5, I still had a test I needed to take, so I reviewed my notes for about 10 minutes and took the test in less than 30. (It was not my best performance, but I passed and that is all I need to do this semester-pass my classes so I can graduate.)

I got home and Faith's contractions were getting stronger as the night went on. The doctor's office said to wait till the contractions were 3-5 minutes apart. We decided to leave about 10:30, called Eden to watch Benny for the night (thanks again, Eden!) and headed to the hospital. I kinda wanted to get pulled over so I could tell the officer "My wife's in labor!" and possibly get a police escort the rest of the way, but alas, we had an uneventful race to the hospital.

When we got to the hospital, Faith was dilated to a 6 and after another hour she was to an 8-9 and ready for an epidural. After slipping into lower-half blissful oblivion, it was another hour or so till she was ready to push and after less than 20 minutes of pushing Andy was born.

Important stats

Weight: 8 pounds 3 ounces
Length: 19 inches
Hair color: Light brown with a hint of red
Temperment: Much like Benny-very calm and sleepy
Eyes: 2
Cuteness: Off the charts

Enough blogging, here are some pictures:

The Andy burrito

Post-bath Andy and parents

Andy's initials are ACC-like the college sports conference. This reminds me of a video I saw a little while ago of an ACC ref at a football game.