He's Here!

Welcome to our family, sweet boy!

Camden Edward Daetwyler

7.19.19

2:06pm

7lbs 10.5oz

19.5in 

We love you so much!

What a wonderful week! It's so incredible to meet the little person that has spent months growing inside you, and to see your family meet that little baby, too.

Here's what we were up to before the big day this week:

Next level Sunday napping. I woke up to find Westin asleep on our couch and Michael had been called into the hospital.
We all took advantage of that last Sunday without a little one around :)

Bennett loves his towel on his head lately. Such a funny little guy.

And they've recently rediscovered their Santa hats. I'm not sure how that came about.

Santa hat, check. Puppets as socks, check.

Thursday was our last day just the three of us.
I took the boys out for a donut date to start the morning and just watched them love each bite.

Bennett feeling so big!

He jumped for 45 minutes straight at the trampoline park and then rested the last 15 with me on the bench.

Sweet buddies

Westin and Bennett have so much fun with their little friends

We met these ladies at the trampoline park after our donut date for one last fun morning out together before I go into newborn mode! The hardest part of c-sections is not lifting for so long, which makes me feel a little homebound until I can lift that baby in his carseat. So it was fun to meet friends and get out the day before delivery. I do not look like I belong in this picture and that's because I don't... I belong in a hospital and in the no-longer-pregnant club. But it was still really fun :)

Always waking up to this boy and his new magnet creations.

Ali took the boys to story time at the library where they got to pick out their summer reading prize.

And while they were gone, Michael and I took this 9-month bump to the hospital to meet our little man.
Pregnancy is unbelievable! He's just in there, so snug, and hours later in our arms.

Michael got some intense food poisoning this week and spent Wednesday night throwing up. I was a Lysol machine through it all before I knew what he was sick with because I did NOT want that spreading around our house during baby week. He took his first sick day of residency on Thursday while the boys and I went on our donut and trampoline dates. He started feeling mostly better though, and we chalked it up to a bad work potluck lunch experience.

It felt so surreal to just pack up and head to the hospital together. C-sections are a little weird that way -- just pencil in that baby on your calendar and show up! I had a lot of anxiety about the actual procedure and recovery, but I really loved my OB this time. She was so kind and really great. She works with her dad and they both did my c-section together.

The first thing Camden did in this world is pee -- would've hit me straight in the face if there wasn't a curtain between us!
Life with boys.

Spending an hour in recovery before going to our room.

Honestly this was the best hour of my life. Drugs are real.

Camden got his brothers some capes and masks since they're going to be his Super big brothers.
They were pretty excited to meet him but not too into holding him yet :)

He looks a lot like Westin to me.

Ali has taken such good care of us this week. I don't think I could have babies without my sister.

We had a dinner date in the hospital with everyone and it was a litttttle crazy but these boys are the best.

My tiniest guy yet! Ready to head home, exactly 48 hours in the hospital.

Our hospital stay had some hiccups when Michael got sick again. He threw up and went home with the boys and Ali, and then she came back and spent my last night in the hospital with me. I was so sad he wasn't feeling good for such a special time and that we didn't have that time together with our new little baby, but in the end everyone is healthy and I'm just so grateful for my sister who went above and beyond for us. Hospitals are so rough and I'm always anxious to get home! We made it home Sunday afternoon and it felt so good to have everyone home.