Baby Aurellia Has Arrived

As of August 30, 2008 at 11:30 p.m. Jennifer took the lead in our weight loss competition by giving birth to a beautiful 7 lb 4 oz baby girl. She answers to the name of Aurellia Catalina Watson. For those of you keeping track, I now have five children and Aurellia has five digits on each hand and foot. Not sure what it means, but the symmetry is perfect.

The day started innocently enough, a two hour trip to Chattanooga and a long walk in 90 degree weather at the top of Lookout Mountain. I suppose that this may have contributed to her labor, but it's all good since Aurellia was over a week over due. It was just her time.

Jen started to have some contractions at the top of Lookout Mountain, and they continued while we stood in line for a half hour waiting to catch the train down the mountain. We thought about going straight back to Knoxville, but my sister told us about this great Mexican restaurant, so you know there was no stopping us.

The food was good, but I find the fare to be a little dry, and if I were to go again I'd try to get some sauce or something on the tacos & burritos. Take it or leave it, the advice is free.

On the trip back the contractions were about 5 minutes apart, but so we started to get the idea, that it was probably going to happen that night. And how right we were. Jen started nesting almost as soon as we got home. That means she cleaned the house like our kids weren't going to mess it up within 12 hours. I kept asking Jen if she was ready to go to the hospital, but she only replied that she was still on her feet. Fair enough I thought, I taped the SC game, I was good.

However, as the first half of the telecast came to an end Jen informed me that it was time to go. Soon we had both sets of babysitters at the house and we were off. We had stalled so long that we were only at the hospital 45 minutes before Aurellia graced us with her presence. And that my friends, is the whole story.