Avery Steven Manternach is born

That's right! The big day finally got here. Jen and I are proud to announce that our son was born and here are the details:

Feb. 25, 2008
Avery Steven Manternach
Born: 3:45am
8lbs. 1oz.
20 1/4 inches long

It was such an amazing experience to be there when my son was born. We woke up on Sunday the 24th and Jen was feeling ok. I was out watching TV, when Jen yelled for me to come in the bathroom. Jen's water had broke, but we weren't sure what it was. So I said, let's go to the hospital and just see. When we got there, they took us up to a room and the nurse said that there were going to a litmus paper to see if her water broke. If it turns blue, the water broke. That thing turned bright blue in 2 seconds flat! That was it...we were staying there.

The labor was long. Jen was in labor for 15 hours. That is a long ass time to be in labor. I think the worst part was the 3 hours of pushing. It wouldn't have been as bad...if Avery hadn't been turned sideways and facing the 1 o'clock position. But, alas, Avery decided that he wanted to get helped out with the use of a vacuum. This was not a Hoover by any means.

As Avery was being pushed and pulled out of Jen all I could think of was, wow, I can see his head and he has lots of hair. I was so emotional as I saw him coming out. I cried and he was born, and so did Jen. Although that might have been from the pain of it all. Avery came out peeing too. My little man pissed all over the Doctor, and the assistant who was cleaning Avery off under the warmer.

We got let out of the hospital on Wednesday the 27th (our original due date) and came home for the first time as a family. Aunt Greta and Grandma Pam were here already to help out.

We have not slept too much since he was born, but we are loving every moment with Avery. He is so beautiful and precious. He looks like the both of us that's for sure. He sure does have a set of lungs on him. Right now he likes to scream for a few hours from 1-2am. We really need to work on that.