And then we met her...

Lily was born July 24, 2010 at 2:55 pm.  Jay knew that she would be a girl, I was stubborn and wanted it to be a surprise.  After laboring for 7 hours, I asked for them to break my water.  See, I was getting bored and more than a little hungry.  I figured, yeah, I can do this.

Then it hit.  I thought I was going to die.  At one point, I looked at Jay, because he was the one who loved me most in that room, and begged him to take me home. I was done.  But through a lot of prayer, and screaming, I started on the task at hand.  I'm doing my best even though I've never pushed anything from "there" before, and the doctor says, "There's the head! Do you want to touch it?" Really, do I want to touch it?!? I told her to grab it and yank it out.  Why would I want to touch it? Ew.  Okay, enough graphics.

Here is Lily's first picture.  Thank God she was small.  Any bigger and I think I would have been dead.  Seriously.  She's a girl, by the way.  And I am so glad she had hair!!  And if Jay hadn't made it back from Arkansas in time, you'd be looking at a picture of Duke.  I picked out the name and threatened him with it if he missed the birth. 

Duke would have been a cute name though.  Very original.  Would have been the only girl in her class with that name I bet.