Everyone say hello to my little baby Gracie. Val and Justin had their BABY TODAY!!!!
She was born at 5:58 p.m. after only seven hours of labor and 22 minutes of pushing. Mommy and baby are both doing fine, as is daddy. And Auntie Pants is so blasted excited she can barely contain herself. I’ve been calling everyone to tell them, like I own them or something but really this is just way too cool. Her name is Grace Katherine and she was 7 lbs 12 ounces and 20 inches long.
*giggles furiously*
So funny story. We’re in Waukee all weekend, and I talk to Valerino pretty regularly, getting the updates and hearing all the funny baby stories, and eating it all up. They have been dying for this kid to get here and it’s just fun to celebrate that with the ones you love, and so Sunday was the day. I never saw her the whole pregnancy and she was like stop by Sunday and we can catch up. So we stop by and I see her and the first thing we both did was BAWL. She looked beautiful and was HUGE and just so pretty and it was just amazing to see this person that you’ve loved and grown up with in her house with her husband and a nursery and it’s just beyond words to explain it. So we see the nursery and we talked non-stop for an hour, and the nursery is SO cute. It’s all Disney stuff, and just too cool. So we’re poking her tummy and trying to wake him up (the minute I saw her yesterday I was sure it was a boy because she was carrying so low and largely! ) His head was in position and Val and I were talking about how anyday now she’s going to have it. She’d been cramping all day long, but was determined that it was just Braxton-Hicks and wasn’t at all concerned about the possibility that it might be labor. HA HA HA. So we leave with a plan. Her and Daddy and Grandma are going to be the only ones in the room, and she’ll call me when she goes and call me after the baby is here. She requests that I not drive down if it’s not the weekend and I am okay with that. You have to have time to get to know your kid and family will be there and you know…so we planned it. ALL the way home Greg and I talked all about little Anthony and how fun it was going to be…blah blah blah.
So this morning I head off to work and realize when I get there that I don’t have my cell phone. I thought about going back to get it and then figure out that hey, she can’t have the baby less than twelve hours after I saw her, so I go through my day…even come home and lay around and don’t worry about it. Then I just get this feeling about how I need to find it and I have messages from Val. She left the house at nine this morning and went in to see the doctor at ten because she had cramps all night and wanted to know what was going on. SHE WAS COMPLETELY DILATED. So she goes in at ten, and seven hours later, with only twenty minutes of pushing Gracie arrives. SHe was carrying so low because she heard her Auntie Pants drop by and wanted to come and see me. HOW COOL IS THAT? I got to see her hours before giving birth. Man, talk about timing! 
Anyway I must go shopping for little Gracie things, but I cannot stop thinking about the play Greg and I went and saw called, “Goodnight Gracie.” It’s about George Burns and his wife Gracie and their lives and love. They used to have a TV show, and it always ended with him saying to her, “Say, Goodnight Gracie.” If you’ve ever loved anyone, or have a romantic bone it’s really funny/cute. Add George Burns comedic prowess in the mix and you have the best of both worlds. Their love story is amazing and as we left we were joking about how when our Gracie learned to talk Greg would tuck her in at night and tell her, “Say Goodnight Gracie.”, and how one day….she would say it and we would think about that night when we didn’t have her and how much she had to brought to us since she came. See we’ve always said our first little girl would be a Gracie too, so it was just kind of ironic that Val would pick that name.
So, I was thinking today, you know when she said I wasn’t with her in this whole baby thing? I was because we’ll always be linked now by our Gracie’s. We’ve talked about these days, when we would be married and have babies and now she is here. Today and days like it are the days where you know there is a God in heaven who loves us, how beautiful is this moment? I could die I am pretty sure.
Welcome to the world little one, we are so happy that you are here. And I cannot wait to hold you and bawl my little eyes out. We love the Gracie, and we don’t even know you yet!!!!
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