It's a Girl!!!

Welcome to the world Baby Girl Garner! Yes she still lacks a name. The journey began yesterday when Summer and Damon were informed by their doctor that they should hear from the Hospital sometime that day and would hopefully have a room to check into by 6pm that evening. Unfortunately the call that they received was to advise them that there wasn't any room at the Inn and to sit tight, they could receive a call later in the evening. And it finally came! They were told to check in at 11pm and the journey to bring Baby Girl Garner into the world would begin.

Damon and Summer checked in and started the process of getting settled and getting poked and prodded, well Summer was poked and prodded, Damon just stood by patiently waiting, providing awesome Daddy support. In the meantime, team Garner (My mom, dad and myself) stood by patiently waiting for the "It's time" phone call. That call finally arrived a little after 3am this morning. I jumped out of bed, threw on some clothes and waited for my parents to pick me up. I wasn't excited to meet my new niece at all.

We arrived at the hospital to find out that we had a bit of a wait still to go, as Summer was only dilated to a 4. So we parked our behinds in what there was of a waiting room, turning off the noisey Christmas tree decoration they had sitting on the table next to us (oops, should have turned that back on when we left) and waited...After the Doctor chewed out the nurses for failing to increase Summer's pitocin on a regular basis, we finally began to hear about some progress. Next thing we knew, Summer was at a 7, at about 7:30ish then all of a sudden she was 8-9 and starting to push and at exactly 8:03am this morning we received a text message from Damon that she was here! Of course that was after we overheard the nurse saying that Room 4 (Damon & Summer's room)had just delivered. We then listened to the other staff question the nurse about room 4 really having delivered because she was just at a 7!

So the as yet named Baby girl Garner was born at about 8:01 or 8:02 am, weighing 7lbs 7ozs, and is 21 inches long. She has what might be described as lightish brown hair, with a hint of red to it, and yes it appears as though it has a bit of a curl to it.

I must apologize for the photo quality. I had a difficult time getting a good photo for a few reasons. First of all Baby Garner seems to like movement and she would scream at us if she stopped moving and my camera didn't like that. And yes that blur in the picture to the right is Damon zooming by. Second of all she insisted on sucking on her hand which of course was stuck in her blanket after having been wrapped up like a baby burrito.

Daddy was all grins and drill holes (if you know Damon, you know the story behind drill holes). Summer looked happy but absolutely exhausted, can't imagine why....Congratulations Damon and Summer, she's beautiful, I can't wait to see you all again!! But she better have a name soon!!