Welcome to our family Baby Nathan!!

Welcoming Nathan to our family was definitely the biggest event of the year.  He is such a cutie, and we love him so much!  Since Benjamin was over 9 lbs and eight days early, my OB agreed to induce me early.  Nathan's due date was technically June 9th, but he was born on June 1st.  After dropping Benjamin off at Elaine's (she and Jenny were fabulous enough to watch him for the day), Jonathan and I had a nice relaxing drive up to the hospital.  They started an IV and pitocin around 10am, started an epidural about two hours later, broke my water just after the epidural (that was awesome timing!), and Nathan was born at 5:47pm!  Without getting too graphic, Nathan was a much easier delivery.  When my nurse got me ready to start pushing there was no pushing necessary, so she just called my OB, and Nathan was born just a few minutes after she arrived, no pushing at all!  Wow, what a difference.  I was giggling the whole time, I found the contrast to Benjamin's birth so funny!  I think it was making my L&D nurse a tad anxious, she kept telling me I needed to stop laughing or I'd laugh him out.  I might have been more concerned about that except that my nurse was fabulous, I'm completely confident she would have been fine if he had come out before my OB was there.

Brand spankin new baby!  Hi buddy!

See that IV in my hand?  I totally got to cut the cord!  How awesome is that?!
When Jonathan didn't want to cut the cord my OB asked if I wanted to (which I totally did.)  

You can't help but stare at your babies when they finally arrive,
you have to wait so long to see them!

Yep, still has a cone-head.
Seriously loved my nurse Candie, she was so fabulous.

Nice and pink!  Nathan was so calm after he was born,
he didn't cry, he just keep looking around at everything.

That rounds to 9lbs, 3 oz, and he was 21 inches long.
That's a big boy! (Yes, I was so glad I went for the induction!)

With my OB, Dr. Gravelle, and my L&D nurse Candie

Meeting Daddy!

It actually took a few days to confirm his name, but we named him Nathan Dean Heider.  Nathan is named after his dad Jonathan (spares the Sr/Jr confusion) and Jonathan's maternal grandfather Dean Mansfield.  These next pictures are from the following afternoon when Benjamin came to meet his new brother.

What's that?

It's a baby!

Making sure he's all covered up.

This is Nathan's outfit to come home!!
We are so excited to bring him home with us!
Love those chunky cheeks my babies have.  ;-)

Here are a some of the pictures of people meeting Nathan. 

(I missed pictures of some people somehow, sorry!)