Baby Grant

I have been neglecting the blog because our computer takes so long to uplod anything that I go crazy! Raymey got a computer for work, and it works much better when I'm able to use it for a bit. I'm going to try to get some good Grant pictures uploaded tomorrow. He was born on Friday morning at 6:55am--an hour before his schuduled induction. I went to bed at about midnight and at 1am my water broke, and I started taking my time getting ready for the hospital. By 1:45 the contractions were really going so we woke up Madeline and started to hurry. By about 2:15 when we dropped her off at a friend's house my contractions were pretty bad and 3 minutes apart. Raymey was speeding to the hospital and both of us were a little worried that we might not make it! Of course when I got to the hospital at 2:30am there was a line at the maternity ward check in. So, I had to sit on the floor and wait until the lady in front of me finished taking her time filling out her papers. The rest of the labor went incredibly fast, and Grant Ethan Walther was born without any complications.
I've been recovering well, and more quickly than I did with Madeline. I'm really tired, but Raymey is home this week helping to take care of things. Grant and I have been sleeping in until 10-11 every day! He wakes up about every 2.5-4 hours at night, which really isn't bad for a newborn. Grant is the most relaxed baby ever (at least in this house)! It really feels like he is awake for a total of an hour every day. He'll be awake for 5-10 minutes and it is just too much for him, and he falls back asleep. I really hope this lasts!
Madeline has done really well with all of the changes. She had a blast at Izzy's house (her new friend here) where she stayed for 2 nights while we were at the hospital. Can you believe that someone offered to take her for both nights? How nice! It was great that she had a good time with lots of attention before we brought home a baby and all this change. She loves Grant and hasn't resented him at all. She's taken out any frustrations on Raymey or me, which really is fine with us. We'd rather it be that way, especially because she always apologizes afterwards, and then turns up the sweet.
My mom is coming in a week, and it will be so great to have an extra person to dish out attention to these kiddos. I'm really excited for her to come! Raymey's mom had planned on coming this weekend, but she's in Haiti helping right now and so she'll be visting us later.
We are so, so, so grateful to have these two beautiful and healthy kids. We love them both so much and we love being parents!