okay... so here are the details. jamie was 34 weeks pregnant. for those of you who don't speak pregnantese... that's 6 weeks before her due date. she had a tear in her placenta and the doctors felt that the risk of a 34 week old baby was less that the risk of remaining pregnant with the tear.

they induced her around 10:30pm on the 12th... and i arrived at the hospital at about midnight. lyndi arrived about an hour after me. because it was an emergency situation she was not at the hospital she had planned on and her midwife was not able to attend her. so it was just jamie and her husband teddy and me and lyndi in a room with periodic pop-ins by the nurse. jamie did beautifully... she made it through without and epidural... and had the baby at 3:00 before the doctor even made it in. they had called a resident who did very little other than catch the baby.

it was the most amazing experience to watch a new little child emerge into the world. it was just so emotional and spiritual. it felt supernatural.

i remember that was the thing i was struck with when i had emerson... that everytime a baby is born it is a miracle. the fact that it happens hundreds of times a day makes it no less a miracle in each particular case. it made me wonder how many other mircales take place around me every day that i miss because they are common. you know?

anyway... little carson was just a tiny bean. only five and half pounds. he was so sweet and small. and today we went back to visit and he's doing great. just wonderfully.

i brought emerson up to the hospital... it was really the first time he understood that jamie had a baby in her stomach and now she doesn't. i think we've talked about baby carson so much over the last few weeks and it was so associated with jamie's belly that when he saw jamie and baby carson... he really got it. he was just mesmerized.

on the way home we stopped at target and bought zoe's birthday gift for tomorrow but we also got emerson his very own baby with a pacifier that he can put in the baby's mouth. i asked emerson what he wanted to name the baby and he said carson. so sweet.