More To Come...

Sorry we've been a little vacant from our postings lately. Needless to say, we've been a little busy. We have lots of new pictures to post, from Meghan's 2nd birthday party to Connor's first bath.

Love to all,
Kevin & Stacy

Introducing Connor Patrick

Connor Patrick was born on Friday June 5th at 10:35 AM, weighing in at 7lbs 11 oz. Both Stacy and Connor are doing great.

Here's the quick story of Stacy's labor:

The day before Connor was born Stacy had her 38 week appointment. She was already dilated 3-4cm with 2 weeks to go before her due date. That afternoon we took a tour of Labor & Delivery at the Naval Hospital on base where Stacy would be delivering. (Little did we know how timely this tour would be.) That evening we had dinner with Stacy's college friend, Lauren, for Lauren's birthday. Lauren just graduated medical school so we knew were in good hands if anything happened. Later that evening Stacy started feeling something, but thought it was more of an after-effect from the doctor's appointment and not labor pains. Until the pains started coming every 7-8 minutes. Stacy went to the kitchen to start cleaning up from dinner. The clanking of pans awoke Kevin from the couch, who said "Just leave the dishes for tomorrow."

Stacy's reply "I don't want to leave them."

Kevin: "Why?"

Stacy: "Because I'm having contractions."

(Silence)

After that, Kevin helped to quickly clean the kitchen and started timing contractions. We had most of our bags packed, but had to put the last minute things in them. We already had a plan for Meghan to go to our neighbor's house when Stacy went into labor so we made sure she had everything she needed in her overnight bag. At this point Stacy's contractions were about 5-6 minutes apart. It was about 11PM, so we tried to get some rest. Within about 15 minutes Stacy's contractions were 3 minutes apart and getting a little more intense. We figured it was time to head to the hospital so we called the family. Kevin carried Meghan over to our friend's house (asleep in her pajamas) and we made our way to the hospital.

We got to the hospital around 1AM. After spending an hour in the pre-admission room (where they monitored Stacy's contractions) we finally got to our delivery room- the exact room we were in for the tour earlier that day. We waited a few hours for Stacy to get an epidural. At this point Stacy was 7-8 cm. And then we waited a few more hours until they finally broke her water at 9AM Friday morning.

A little after 10AM Stacy was ready to push. 15 minutes and 10 pushes later our newest addition entered the world. IT'S A BOY!!

Crockett Baby Pool!

Okay, so the days are quickly ticking away... 16 days until Baby #2 is supposed to grace us with his/her presence (June 19th). Thought we'd have some fun and take all of your guesses for when the baby will actually arrive.

If you want to play along, put your guess in the comment section. Make sure you include:
-what day you think baby #2 will arrive
-length/weight
-boy or girl

A little background info:
-Meghan was born 6 days early (on June 23rd)
-she weighed 6 lbs 10 oz and was 19 1/2 inches long

Happy Guessing!

Visiting Kevin's Alma Mater

(These pictures are a little bit older, but we wanted to share them with you all.)

Right after we moved up to North Carolina we spent the weekend in Chapel Hill. It was "Alumni Rugby Weekend" so Kevin had a chance to catch up with some old friends from college. The weather was beautiful... much warmer than we had planned. We watched the game then walked around campus. We even bought Meghan some UNC gear, a Carolina blue dress and matching UNC flip flops. It was the same weekend as the NCAA basketball finals. Kevin celebrated with the crowd that flooded Franklin Street. Stacy and Meghan were (happily) asleep back at the hotel. Of course, that was also the night that Meghan flipped herself out of the crib at the hotel, so she was sleeping in the bed with Stacy. Kevin got to sleep in the other bed by himself.

The next day we met up with Kevin's good friend from high school, Karen, and her family. We went to an amazing public park in Cary, NC and let the kids run free for about 4 hours while the adults did their best to catch up on the past 10 years. (Maybe not quite that many, but pretty close.)

Meghan's Dancing Moves

We all know Meghan likes to dance. (Just see the video from our trip to Florida last year for Meghan's birthday. Its one of the older blog entries.) Here is a clip from some of her newer dance moves.

Less than 7 weeks...

It's already May! Kevin is staying busy at his new job and Stacy & Meghan are busy exploring new playgrounds nearby. Not too much going on otherwise. The nursery is coming together... Meghan has been sleeping in her "big girl bed" for almost a month now and the crib is all set in the baby's room. Diapers have been bought (we forgot how little newborn diapers are!! They fit on Meghan's stuffed animals.) We have to go through Meghan's newborn clothes and take out the "gender neutral" onesies to wash yet.


Here are some recent pictures for you to enjoy.

The morning of our move to NC:

Dyeing Easter eggs:

Easter morning:

Easter morning with Grandmom and Grandpig (Stacy's parents):

Easter bunny ears!:

Lasgana and chocolate chip cookies. Yum!:

Daddy & Meghan:

Safe and Sound in NC

After a very long week, we are all moved in to our new house in North Carolina. We were fortunate to get one of the newly renovated houses on base, conveniently located about 1.5 miles from Kevin's work, about 3 miles from the grocery store, and maybe 5 miles from the grocery store.

Kevin's younger brother Jason drove down to South Carolina last weekend to visit with us and help Kevin pack the moving truck. The plan was to get on the road Tuesday morning for the 6 hour drive to our new house in North Carolina. Kevin started out ahead of Stacy since his 22 foot moving truck topped off at 70 mph. Stacy and Meghan started out about 30 minutes later. Everyone was making good time. Stacy actually passed Kevin and was about 30 minutes ahead of him when the VW broke down.

On I-95.
Somewhere in SC.
With Meghan in the car.

We were fortunate to get a quick tow to a small garage in the town of Manning, SC. Meghan had fallen asleep while waiting for the tow truck. We moved her- still asleep and still in her car seat- to the cab of Kevin's moving truck while Stacy rode in the tow truck. We spent the night at a nearby hotel while the garage waited in parts for the car.

The next day we tried to waste as much time as possible waiting for the car to be fixed. Jason drove up to meet us in Manning, SC to help in case Stacy's car couldn't be fixed. The part was supposed to be in by 2 PM so everyone got lunch and hung out near the garage. Kevin got on the road around 2:30 in the moving truck while Stacy, Meghan and Jason waited for the part to arrive.

At 4:00, the garage notified us that "they ordered the correct part, but the wrong part arrived." Oh by the way, the earliest they could get the correct part would be Friday. So, we loaded everything from Stacy's car into Jason's Jeep Cherokee and started the rest of our trip north.

Kevin got to the house around 8PM and started unloading boxes. Jason, Stacy & Meghan arrived about 10 PM. The boys unloaded the rest of the furniture while Stacy tried to get Meghan to bed.

It was a very long week. We started unpacking some of the boxes, but most will just have to wait until next week when we all have a little more energy.

On a good note, the part did arrive at the garage down in SC and Stacy's VW is finally fixed!