sleeping babies

I'm not sure there is anything cuter than a sleeping baby... I keep trying to get shots of Orin sleeping but he always seems to wake up!

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more pictures

photo shoots

I know we haven't updated our blog much... I'm still learning how to do this. Anyway, Orin is doing great and we love having him... I think Shawn and I feel a little more complete. I've been trying to take pictures, and even get anxious that I don't have enough good ones and he just keeps growing everyday! (I get a little photo obsessed and need to chill... I know!!) We are a little sleep deprived but happy. During that first week home, Shawn was so sleep deprived that when he woke up and saw that I was nursing he asked me if the baby needed his cookies... random! Here are a few of the pictures from the past few weeks-

coming home

Orin Talbot Patterson

He is here!!!!

It took a while but he finally decided to grace us with his presence. For those of you who have not yet heard the stor I will attempt to summarize the key point quickly since I am on a quick trip home from the hospital to update the blog and take a shower.
Log story short...Darcy woke me up around 4:30 A.M. on Monday morning thinking that her water had broken. She wasn't sure though since there wasn't that much water. Also the fluid did have a green tinge to it so we were worried that he had already gone #2 so we called the hospital and they told us to come in.
We got to the hospital and they hooked Darcy up so that they could monitor both the Bay and her at the same time and tested the fluid to see if in fact her water had broken. That test came beack in the affirmitive. So they admitted us to the hospital. The Doctor on call decided that it would be best to allow Darcy to go into laabor by herself so he did not start any pitosin(sp). So about 6 hours later we were just chillin in the room reading Harry Potter when the nurse came in and put Darcy on her side gave her oxygen and then waited while watching the Babies heart rate. It was falling way below where it should have been so she warned us that if his heart rate did not come up a C-Section was in our immediate future.
The Doctor then came in and checked her to see if she was dialated(sp). Unfortunately nothing had changed in fact when we got there the nurse had said that she was a finger tip but the Doctor said that she was completely closed. So he decided to put her on some thing that would stop any labor to give the baby a rest but the heart rate continued to fall so we went in for an emergency C-Section.
In the end it wasn't what we planned but besides a breif stay in the NICU Baby Orin Talbot Patterson is perfectly fine and Darcy is doing well.
Mom and Dad are a little tired but besides that we don't have any complaints. I am going to poat a bunch of Photos following this post. I hope you like them.