Avery’s birthday story is FAR less dramatic than Cole’s but still every bias special. We were on a bit of a time crunch when Avery was born. We were living in Lawton, OK, just three hours from Dallas. Avery was due to arrive on May 26, 2008. My little sister was set to graduate down in Dallas on May 23rd. My doctor assured we the whole pregnancy that I would make it to Dallas to see her graduate. It got closer and closer. The week before graduation arrived and still no baby. I went in for my final appointment sure that my doctor would give me the go ahead to be induced. But my doctor had decided to go out of town. I was pleading with his resident to induce me, assuring him that this really had been the plan all along. I told him that I was going to Dallas baby or not and I hoped she wasn’t born in the car on the way down. He laughed and said he would call the doctor and that he would be back on Monday to let me know. Great. Tuesday morning came and I still hadn’t heard from my doctor. I decided that morning I was just going to call and see what was up. Apparently there was a miscommunication because he thought I was already at the hospital. The nurse had failed to call. So Jim and I hurried to the hospital at around 10:30 am on May 20th. I had never been induced before but I decided that had to be the most relaxed, easy way to have a baby. Everything was so calm. They hooked me up to machines and the labor began. There was no rushing around or painful trips to the hospital. Finally, around 7 pm, Dr. Zweig came in to start delivering the baby. He looked at Jim and told him to put on a gown and gloves. Jim assumed this was normal procedure for cutting the cord or being in the room. The Dr. then called Jim over and told him to start delivering the baby. He talked him through pulling the baby out. It was a pretty amazing experience. Afterwards Jim said he NEVER could have done that if he had known in advance. This is a guy who freaks out just administering IVs so delivering a baby was never in his life plan. But since he really had no choice and the baby was coming no matter what, he was able to do it (with a completely horrified look on his face) and was happy and amazed after the fact. So after Avery Brooke was cleaned up and ready fro visitors, my mom brought Cole and Alli up to the hospital to meet their newest sibling. They were all so cute and excited and Avery was just perfect perfect. My mom then drove the big kids back to Dallas the next day and Jim and I spent two days in the hospital with Avery. We checked out on Thursday, drove to Dallas Friday, and took our 3 day old baby to watch her Aunt graduate that night. And on a side note, after all that stress and craziness to get to Chrissy’s graduation, about one minute before Chrissy was being handed her diploma, Alli looks at us and tells us she needs to go potty. We told her to hold it or figured she would just have to wet her pants. We did not make it that far to miss it for a bathroom break.
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