Levi was little once?

February 10, 2009... The day that Levi was born.

 

When I met Matt in 2006 and we started dating, I knew that he was special. I had a feeling that I was going to be with him for a long time and that he was the one. We had a few ups and downs, but with him the relationship was so good for the most part and so interesting and special! For instance, we had our first date on a whim (before our actual scheduled date 2 days later) and it was at 3:00 am at IHOP after talking on the phone for 5 hours. I love that we have such fun stories and memorable ones! Also like when he proposed, by using Bruce to show me the ring and having him ask me if I would marry his dad... it was so sweet and loving and different! After being married for 6 weeks we found out that we were 5.5 weeks pregnant, which was such a blessing and exciting, although it was fast! When we found out we were having a boy we already knew he would be named Levi, because in the Bible Matthew was also known as Levi and we chose his name to be that because then he was named from the Bible and his daddy. When I was 30 weeks pregnant I started getting contraction, real contractions, but my uterus was tilted and luckily it took a lot of contractions to get anything going so there was no pre-term labor scare. We thought I was in labor 3 times within 2 weeks of Levi's actual birth, it never progressed past a few hours though. When it was finally time I started to have contraction 10 minutes apart on Sunday morning at 8 am and I finally went in to the hospital Monday afternoon at 3:00. They noticed the progress wasn't as great as they had hoped so they scheduled for my induction the next day, which was the day before his due date. I was also told that a lot of times when babies are ready to be born and the induction date gets set the baby will come on his own... which was exactly what happened. That night at midnight I was in full blown labor and Matt rushed me to the hospital. I got admitted and 12 hours later Levi was born.

 

He didn't cry. I remember asking why he hadn't cried and then seeing the nurse smack him on the back and finally hearing his cry. It was a wonderful sound and I figured that all was well and couldn't wait to hold our baby boy. After my complication that I had (that I will not write about due to the fact that it is way TMI) I finally got to hold him. It was wonderful and I remember taking that picture above and being excited for Bruce to meet his little brother. Not long after that we noticed that he was blue (as you can kind of see in the picture) and he was having a hard time breathing. The nurse got him breathing well again and gave him back to Matt to hold him while I was doing something, which I am not sure what that was now. We looked over and noticed that Levi was blue again and then they took him to the sick baby nursery. He had what they called in normal people language, slow infant breathing... which they weren't sure the cause, but we weren't allowed to hold him or feed him or do anything but see him from his glass box that they had him in. He had an IV and oxygen in his nose and bandages holding everything down. He looked so tiny, even more so than he was (7lbs 10oz). He was in the hospital for only 6 days thank the Lord, but it was a very scary first few days for all of us. He is as healthy as a horse now, and we are so blessed with this smart and loving little boy who wrestles with his brother, cleans up after himself, writes numbers and letters and words. He loves his brother and is his best friend. He is easily mad, but in a funny way and over the silliest things. He tells people that he is 8 and has the rattiest looking puppy dog animal that he has had for 2.5 years now and takes him everywhere! I am so blessed and grateful that he was sick for only a short time and that he is a healthy and happy little boy now! We all love him so much and I couldn't imagine him any other way!

 

I wanted to write about Levi separately from Bruce for once because they always get paired together and compared all of the time. I will write about Bruce tomorrow hopefully!

P.S. I love both of our kids and my husband very much and I am very blessed by God and thankful too!