The Horrocks

11.10.2010

Lucy's Newborn Photos

I am so happy with how all the pictures turned out. Tiffany Morton does fabulous work.

Lucy is 6 days old in the photos and now she's already 1 month old! I had a hard time picking my favorites.....here are a few!

She was pretty fussy before we could get one of her in her blessing gown. Karen Cochran knitted this. Isn't it beautiful??

11.02.2010

Halloween this year was pretty uneventful. ( Uneventful compared to last year. Last year I dressed up like a rocker, made a fool of myself at a dance competition just to win Rock Band. ) Now I'm a "responsible" parent and skipped out on all the parties. (It still cracks me up that I'm a mom.) We still had fun though. We got dressed up, went to Sue Nana's house, made caramel apples and took some pictures. Then we went to my parents house for more candy and pictures.

Lucy was a cat, MEOW!

And so was I......

Dr didn't like my idea of being a cat family, even when I told him he could be Thomas O'Mally the alley cat. I thought it was a great idea. Instead he dressed up as a hunter. I shouldn't say he "dressed up" considering this is his normal attire. He was a good sport though and threw on some face paint.

It was quite the 3 ring circus to get a picture with all the grand kids. This was the best we could do!

10.17.2010

Going Backwards

I know this is a little anti-climatic, but here are a few maternity pictures Tiffany Morton took of me at 35 weeks.

And a few more of our little muffin!

First day home.

10.11.2010

Introducing....Lucy Virginia Horrocks!!

Our baby girl is finally here! She was born Saturday, October 9, 2010, 10:20 AM. She weighed 5 lbs. 14 oz. and was 19 3/4 inches long. It kind of took us by surprise because she was 5 days early. Here's how it went down.....

Friday I had a doctors appointment and was dialated to a 2 and 90% effaced. Before I left I joked with the doctor that he should induce me on the 10th so her birthday could be 10/10/10. He said " I don't think you'll make it through the weekend, we might even see you tonight". Sheer panic swept across my face, I even started to sweat a little. I made a bunch of phone calls and ran home to finish packing my hospital bags. That night I didn't feel any different and went to bed a little let down that I hadn't felt any contractions. At about midnight I started to feel them pretty strong. I layed in bed for the next two hours trying to time them. At about 2:00 AM I decided to call my mom and tell her what was going on. She told me to go to the hospital. We grabbed our bags and off we went! I got an epidural at about 4:00 AM, the doctor broke my water at 5:30 AM. After the epidural, I was pain free and only pushed for about an hour. Labor was not as big of a deal as I had pictured in my mind. I was surprised.

When I first started pushing, DR was getting a little light headed. I finally convinced him to just look and see that it wasn't that bad. After he looked, he wanted to deliver the baby himself! He said if he could deliver cow and sheep he could do a baby. He asked Dr. Breitenbach if he could help deliver and he said sure. It was a really cool experience for DR and I both.