Hello World!!!

Leissner Ferdinand Poth IV

"LEVI"

Born: November 8th @ 6:47 PM

8 lbs. 7 oz, 21" long

Well, as most of you already know by now, the previous blog post was written about 30 minutes before I went into labor on my own! We had the induction planned for the next morning, but apparently little Levi decided that was not soon enough. I wrote that post, then laid down for a quick nap and the contractions started. After about 30 minutes, I decided these were the real thing, called Lex, he dropped everything headed home to pick me up and we were at the hospital by around 3:45 pm. They got us in a room pretty quick, but the doc decided I need to walk around until 5 pm to make sure everything was progressing before they checked us in. Well at 5 pm, I was having some pretty major contractions about 2-3 minutes apart so there was no question this was it! The doc joked about getting me my epidural ASAP so they could get this baby out by 7 pm before the nurses changed shifts....we all laughed, thinking that would never happen. Well by 6 pm, my epidural was in, they broke my water and I dilated to 10 cm within 20 minutes. I only had to push through 1.5 contractions, maybe 5 minutes?!? Easiest part of the whole pregnancy/recovery so far :)

We were so happy that he decided to come a little earlier, sure makes for a much more memorable, exciting entrance into this world!

Welcome little man, we love you soo much!

Love that he likes to hold my finger while he practices sucking, so sweet!

Mimi was able to come up the night he arrived. Our good friend Ryan came down to watch Katelyn while she slept, so my Mom could come meet Levi! She even thought to bring us dinner & a big bouquet of balloons!

Profile shot, he definitely has some resemblance to Katelyn when she was born, but only some features, that dark hair makes him look so different, we love it!

Pops drove in and arrived the next day, so happy to have them both here to help us during this time. It's been a much easier transition to have their help!

Daddy and his little boy!

Katelyn came up to meet her baby brother and was such a sweetie pie to him. She is going to be a wonderful Big Sister, I have no doubt. Love this picture!

First time getting to hold her baby brother, look at that big smile, she is soo happy!

Katelyn had these same lips when she was born, we call the chin the Kilgore curl back :)

My sweet little boy!

So happy!

First Bath

Here are two video's Lex took of Katelyn meeting her baby brother: