Welcome to the world, Kayli Rose Button!

Every baby that enters this world has a story...here is the story of Kayli Rose Button who joined our family on January 8th.

All day on January 7th I felt yucky. I couldn't even eat because I just felt sick. I had been having irregular contractions on and off for days and they got a little bit stronger in the evening. At 9pm, after the kids were in bed I decided to go walk around Wal Mart and see if I could keep them coming. Dave thought I was crazy, but he let me go. I walked around the whole store for 2 hours. I think I passed some aisles 5 times, but I knew things would get going if I kept walking.

I woke up at 4 am the next morning with pretty good contractions. I got up, cleaned a little and tried to keep myself busy. By 6 am they were about 3 minutes apart and getting stronger so I woke up Dave and told him we needed to go to the hospital. Dave's dad came over so that the older kids could just stay in bed.

This is me...so happy to be finally having this baby. This pregnancy was way too long for me

They had us walk around the hospital for an hour to make sure that I was really in labor. When they checked me after that time, I hadn't made sufficient progress so they told me to go home, relax and come back later. I was so mad, I wouldn't even make eye contact with the nurse who was telling me this. We tried to tell her that with our other 2 babies, things were very slow in the beginning and very quick at the end. In one ear and out the other...she must hear that every day, so she didn't seem to care.

Since I had missed a Dr appt that morning because we were at the hospital, Dave took me there right from the hospital and they squeezed me in. Well, my doctor checked me and said to return to the hospital, she was going to admit and we were going to have a baby that day. I never wanted to hug my doctor as much as I did when she said that!

Sooo...we headed back. My doctor is a very hands off, let your body do it's own thing kind of person. She didn't want to give me pitocin unless I wasn't making any progress for a long time. We thought we were in for a long day and maybe even night. When the nurse checked me around 3:30, I was at a 4- the same as I had been at my Dr's office that morning. I was a little frustrated because I was having HARD contractions and they didn't seem to be doing anything. Ugh! They checked me again at 4pm and thought I was a 5. Dave warned her that my babies come quick, so she started to get things ready for delivery and went to call my doctor. Shortly after that I felt my water break and started having REALLY HARD contractions along with a ton of pressure. Dave looked down and thought he saw the head right there. He called the nurse over and she was almost rolling her eyes as he asked, "Um, is that the head?" She took one look and ran out of the room to get another nurse. 3 pushes later, Kayli entered this world. Almost having to be caught by her father...the nurse barely made it in there.

Kayli was born at 4:4o pm, weighing 7 lbs, 8oz and being 20 1/2 inches long. She is absolutely adorable and we are so happy to have her in our family!

Kelsi was so excited to meet her! She thinks she is so lucky to now have a brother and a sister!

Andrew held her for a second and was bored. He spent the rest of the time at the hospital watching a movie on the laptop!

Here she is modeling her Cute as a Button shirt from Aunt Valerie. So cute!!

Heading home...

*In case you missed it, the morale of the story is that you should always listen to Keri when she tells you that her babies come quickly. The doctor barely made it in time to catch Kelsi and both Andrew and Kayli were delivered by nurses because the doctors couldn't get there in time :) And I don't even want to think about the nurse who sent me home! Dave made sure to thank our doctor for having us return to the hospital, he is happy that he didn't have to deliver a baby at home or in the car or something!

WELCOME BABY KAYLI!!