Ezra's Birth

From this...

to this!

Baby Ezra was born December 23rd, 2014 at 7:01am.  He weighed 9lb. 4oz. and was 22 1/2in long.  The night before I was having mild contractions but didn't think much of it since most of my babies have come several days late (EDD was 12/25).  At 12:50am my contractions woke me up.  I was monitoring them a bit when at 1am I felt a *pop* and gush, my water broke!  I've never had that happen before so I was excited and nervous.  I called the midwife and she came over about 2am. Zui set up the birthing tub. Labored all night, kept hoping the baby would come before the kids woke up so we wouldn't have to worry about childcare when... heard Ezekiel stirring at 6:30am.  I was trying to hurry and get this baby out so we could rescue him and I wouldn't have to hear him cry in his crib!  But after a couple of minutes I told the midwife to go get him, at which point he joined us.  It's funny, once he came into the room I could almost relax a bit more.  He lightened the mood a bit, with us trying to entertain him by playing peek a boo and feeding him m&m's inbetween contractions.  A half hour later this cutie-boy joined our family.  It was exhilarating and there were lots of tears of joy.

The kids were of course ecstatic to wake up (about ten minutes later) and find a new baby brother.

Ezekiel just loves Ezra, it is so funny to watch him.  But you really have to watch him!  He is not all that gentle just yet...

We are all so happy to have this little angel in our lives.  Never easy, but always worth it.  Welcome to earth, baby Ezra!!