AJ is here!

Missing a leap year birthday by 4 hours, Andrew James ("AJ") Skoog was born on 2-28-08 at 8:03 pm. Jen went into labor early that afternoon, and after a few painful contractions, followed by some wonderful drugs and a fairly easy delivery, we got to meet AJ! And I was there for the whole thing! For those of you who don't me that well, I am very weak stomached - I can't handle ANYTHING when it comes to icky medical stuff. Well, this is the second birth that I've been a part of, and both times the experience was so beautiful and moving, that I never flinched over the icky medical stuff. Bringing a life into this world is such an amazing and beautiful miracle, and we have God to praise for His beautiful workmanship of creating little AJ and bringing him to us! We are so honored to welcome this little guy into our family! Matthew and I now have officially 8 nieces and nephews, and love each one of them tremendously.

Anyways, so the two births that I have witnessed, both went off without a hitch. Both my sister and Jen made the whole thing look totally easy - I'm only assuming that all births are this quick and painless. (Hey, let me stay in this naive place of happiness - it makes me feel better!)

I took plenty of pictures from both the birth, and the second day, when big sister Hailey got to meet her new baby brother. You can see his whole slideshow with most of my favorites here.

Day 1: The Birth

a lot of cell phone minutes were used to tell everyone the good news....