Welcome Amy Claire Smith

We went to the hospital at 10AM on Wednesday morning for a scheduled c-section at noon. Everything went as planned, the doctor was held up at her office and running a little late so the c-section was started around 1PM instead of noon, but the extra wait wasn't that bad. Seth was with Cara while grandparents and big brothers waited out in the lobby. At exactly 1:18PM, the doctor announced "it's a girl!" and we were both so surprised and extreemly happy that we had tears in our eyes. It was most definitely a special moment that we will remember forever.

Amy Claire Smith was born on Wednesday, April 7th, at 1:18PM. She weighed a healthy 8lbs 9oz, was 20 inches long. Cara and Amy are both doing very very well. Amy seems to be doing much better with the jaundice than either Charles or Ryan and we may not have to make all of the trips back and forth to the lab for bloodwork and visits with the pediatrician for the first week or two, as we had to for Charles and Ryan. Amy is eating very well and sleeping most of the time. In fact, so far, she appears to be a very calm baby!!! Her older brothers ask about her all the time, especially if they can't see her or don't know where she is. Charles just loves staring at Amy and often says that she is so beautiful! And Ryan likes to touch her (feet, nose, ears, everything!!!), in fact, he'll stop what he's doing and just out of the blue, go over and "have to touch Amy". :-)

Okay, that's it for now, but let's just say that the camera is working overtime and I'll be posting more pictures soon.