Jake is 7!

I was sitting here this morning, recalling the events of this day 7 years ago. Wow... it really doesn't seem like it's been that long! I remember that I was sitting at the computer checking my email at 8:45 on March 5th, 1999, I sneezed and realized my pants were wet. All the mom's reading will relate to this! I just figured that I'd peed a little when I sneezed (hey, give a girl a break... I was 37.5 weeks pregnant) so I got up to go potty and to change. By the time I'd made it to the other end of the house, I realized that my water had broke! I called Jay (who was on patrol at the time) and interrupted his dinner to tell him the news. He raced home, we took Kenna over to a friend's house and headed to the hospital with my sister joining us shortly after we arrived. Labor didn't really kick in until after 2am and although I really wanted to have a drug-free labor, I finally asked for some Stadol at about 5:30. My friend Dina arrived from Albuquerque a little after that... I remember her coaching me to blow like I was blowing out candles :) I think I started pushing at about 8:30am and Jake was born at 9am. I remember that the OB on call didn't make it so they had to pull in an OB that was on rounds. This was by far my easiest delivery and he was my smallest baby weighing in at 7lbs 9ozs and 21.5".

He's changed so much over the past year! He loves going duck hunting with his daddy, playing X-box and just generally doing boy stuff. We're getting ready to start the soccer season and I am really excited to watch him play. He's graduating to the big field this year, so it'll be a lot different for him but I know he'll do well.

Check out more pictures from Jakey Bakey's big day here - Jake is 7!