All About Keegan 2008-2009

My little boy is one year old today!! The time has flown by way too fast, it feels like just yesterday I was in the hospital bringing him into this world! Keegan brings so much joy to my life each and every day, and I am just so thankful to have him. He is so happy and easy-going, and just loves to spend each day with me exploring the world. It is so much fun to watch him learn and grow every day, and especially lately because he has become a little comedian. He will throw something, or walk over to something, or make a funny noise, or a funny face and he will laugh at himself, or look at me and wait for me to laugh at him. My absolute favorite thing that he does is give hugs, and he will give them to any female that is willing to hold him. He is in such a great stage.

We celebrated his birthday yesterday with our close family. He had fun playing with all of his new toys and eating cake and practicing his walking between everybody.

He got his first skateboard from his Aunt Holly, and his first cellphone from Grandma and Grandpa H. Does the fact that he already knows what to do with it, mean that I talk on the phone too much?

Here he is saying "I am ONE year old!"

He knew exactly what to do with his cupcake, and enjoyed every second of it!

With Aunt Jess.

Thanks everybody for celebrating Keegan's first big milestone! Much love to you all!

PS - As an afterthought, I thought I would tell his birth story. Don't feel obligated to read it all, I just haven't written it down yet, so this is really for posterity. Keegan's birth story is (un)fortunately pretty boring. I like to start telling it from Friday morning when I had my weekly check-up with my doctor and we decided together that since he was measuring big I would be induced the following Wednesday (about 1 week before his due date). I called everyone in the family and told them that this was the plan. This day was also my last day in the office, I was so uncomfortable that I just wanted to stay home in my pj's. That night Matt and I decided to go out to a movie, since this was our last weekend of "freedom." My feet were painfully swollen, and I was so tired an uncomfortable that I didn't really enjoy the movie, and actually I think I slept through a good portion of it. I went to bed and was woken up around 3:00am, by my waters breaking. I wasn't 100% sure so I woke up Matt and of course he said "are you sure?" We called the doctor and she said we could either wait till morning, or go into the hospital right away. I tried to go back to sleep, but with all the excitement and unknown there was no way I was going to sleep. So, we took our time putting the carseat in the car and getting our bags packed. I even showered and shaved my legs (very important). We stopped and got Matt some McD's, and thats when I finally started feeling contractions. They weren't too bad, nothing more than a menstrual cramp. We got to the hospital and they checked me in and just watched my progress for awhile. My contractions never really got very strong or consistent so around 10:00am they decided to start me on Pitocin. I had heard horror stories about Pitocin immediately making the contractions come strong and hard, so I asked for an Epidural right away. It kicked in, and I never felt a contraction more than a cramp. Not too bad. We waited and waited all day, and finaly around 7:00pm the doctor said that I was stalled out a 7cm, and that he had not really moved into place in the birth canal (that he was possibly stuck). I had the option to go into an elective c-section, or to up the Pitocin and just "see what happens." But her instinct was that he had a big head and that he wasn't going to come out easily. Matt and I considered our options, and decided on the c-section. Keegan was born by c-section 50 minutes later. He definitely had a big head, and he was sunny-side-up, so he would not have come out "normally" very easy. He was 8lbs 2oz, 21.5in long with a 14in head.