Number 2, Number 3, Number 4 and Number 6

Here's the little one on mommy after I brought the three older siblings back to visit. Up close you can see a slight highlighting to her blond hair.
The three older ones loved meeting their new sister. They did very well being gentle with her and picked up the name 'Adelaide' quite well. Orson and Connor were relentless with questions about how she got out, what she can do, what she can eat, why mommy has two milk producers to feed her...I mean wow can they come up with endless questions or what!

Sarah did quite well today. Adelaide was born at 1428 which is Sarah's magic time of day (230). Her hard contractions started at 0300, so you might say she was in labor for 12 or so hours. She woke me up at 05 and we napped together out by the Christmas tree counting the contractions and analyzing them. They finally brought her to tears and she convinced me we could try the hospital again (yesterday they sent us home after her contractions stopped altogether).

The kiddos were already at the France's house on a sleepover, as we weren't sure when we were going back. Kelly and Matt France are Saints for taking our children for 48 hours straight. No matter what we do we will never be able to repay them....Thanks Matt and Kelly!

We showed up at the hospital and Sarah was already at a 5, with regular contractions and effaced to 90%. They gave her a room, setup her IV and got the epidural started (her back and forth about going natural quickly dissipated in the early hours of hard contractions). After getting all setup, they checked her again and she was at a 7 after only an hour. She was coming along nicely. From about 8 or so to 1 she didn't budge past a 7. They decided to give her pitocin and see if it would speed things up (they also broke her water earlier, I will have to check with Sarah to see when).

After an hour or so of pitocin they checked her and she was a 9 1/2. They got setup for delivery. From 1405-1427 she pushed hard. We all thought Adelaide would pop out with two pushes but it took a bit. She arrived pretty easily though and after the suction applied to her lungs (and a bit of effort as she didn't want to cry too hard to work the lungs free from all the liquid), she stabilized and immediately started sucking for milk.

When she first came out I was so focused on the fact that Sarah's hard work was over, the baby was out, I forgot to immediately look for the sex. Gratefully the nurses reminded me to tell Sarah what we had so I could tell. It was a sweet moment where I got to bear the better of the two versions to Sarah. We were in trouble otherwise as we had whittled our boy names down to zero.

Mommy and baby are doing well. Plans are for them to come home tomorrow afternoon after Addy's....Addie's...first hearing check. The siblings are excited and so are mommy and daddy. Thanks for all the support and prayers from friends and family. We love you all.

As for the numbers. Connor and Orson were all about equalizing the family with three girls to the already three boys, so Adelaide is the second sister, third girl, fourth child and sixth member of the family.