Welcome Owen Daniel Scarbrough

It seems like my pregnancy lasted forever... but it was well worth the wait. Our sweet little boy arrived on October 13, 2009. Only 3 days late... Drew was 7 days late. Luckily the doctor induced me before he got too big. We went to Banner Gateway hospital at 9 am on Tuesday, October 13th for the induction. They started me on pitocin since I was still measuring at a 3 and 80% effaced. After a long day, Owen was born at 8:28 pm. He was 8 lbs. 3 oz and 20.9 inches.

He had a lot of dark hair and was a big boy. He had a good strong cry and I couldn't wait to hold him. Dan was ecstatic - and had a grin from ear to ear. We had a beautiful, healthy little boy. He was very alert and just looked around and at us. He was sucking is fingers and rooting like crazy right away... He wanted to nurse from the get go and latched on great.
He DID NOT enjoy the nurse taking him away from his warm mother to take a bath and get all cleaned up. He cried and cried through the whole process. (And still cries through almost every bath...)

We missed our other two kids while in the hospital, and I was bummed they couldn't come visit. So we did the next best thing - we Skyped them and showed them their new baby brother. Drew kept saying "that's me, that's me". Allie was super excited for her new brother too! Thanks a ton to Katie and Aaron for staying with our kids for a couple days and helping us out so much the first week. Our kids had so much fun with them, they didn't even miss us. In fact, Allie was so sad when we came home and they had to go home!

Thank you again to everyone who helped us out during this time. We couldn't have done it with out all the help. Our ward and neighbors were so wonderful and brought us meals, and our family and friends were so great about checking on us, visiting us & helping out with our kids. I'm so blessed to have such a wonderful support system.