More Pictures

Well, I somehow managed to leave the hospital tonight without having taken a picture of Shannon and Davin post bath. I am pretty sure we will take a few photos tomorrow though. So check back if you want to see more... or if you don't you probably shouldn't be here in the first place.

At The Hospital - We have baby - update

I will get higher res ones up later but here he is,

Davin James Bowles

8lbs 1 oz.

9:52pm after only 12 minutes of pushing!

Mom and Baby are doing well.

We are doing great.

More pics and maybe some video later.

At the Hospital - Sitting, Waiting, Wishing.

Well, we are at a 6 now and the nurse is prepping the delivery table. Contractions are steady and strong, so the doctor thinks things will really start moving here soon. Hope to have a baby in the next couple hours (maybe by the time Grandpa lands).

At The Hospital - Update

Shannon is still in labor. Things are going well. The baby is just taking his time. Shannon is having longer and harder contractions. We are still in good shape. Thanks for all your comments.

We'll get pictures up as soon as we can.

At The Hospital - Well Wishes Welcome

Well, we are at the hospital. Leaving Weston at home with Aunt Aly turned out to be less traumatic than we thought it might be (the lure of storytime and the park seemed to be a good trade off for letting mom go without a fuss).

We have the internets here, so feel free to post your well wishes and I will pass them on to Shannon (who has as of yet - 10:18am - not been poked or prodded with anything).

Happy Easter!!!

We had a wonderful Easter Sunday together as a family with Mom and Aunt Aly joining us. I went to let Weston out of his room in the morning and opened the door to find him standing there wearing his bunny ears from the mall. He was so excited and went in and told Daddy Happy Easter. Then we hunted for his Easter basket. He was stoked to find it and immediately dug in checking out all the fun little presents that the easter bunny had brought. One of his new presents was the movie "101 Dalmations" so we put that in and watched while he played and we took turns showering. Later in the morning when everyone was here we did a little Easter egg hunt. Weston thought it was great and loved hunting and opening the eggs. We went to church and then came home and Mom made us a delicious ham dinner. Weston was a little grumpy since he had a late, short nap, but perked up after about an hour or so.

Finding eggs hidden on the car.
I included this one because it's such a great ginormous belly shot. :) Weston is finding an egg right there by the fence too.

Weston finding more eggs and having issues climbing around in the yard.


Ok, so onto the baby update. It is almost 7am and I am supposed to be induced today. I was really hoping and praying that I would call the hospital at 6 (like I was supposed to) and they would tell me to come on in, but no. I got up at 5:30 to shower just in case things actually went according to my ideal, but this baby does not want to cooperate with me. I was pretty upset and almost started crying when the lady on the phone told me that the charge nurse would be calling me by 8am to let me know when to come in, but if she didn't, then to call the hospital back. She guessed I wouldn't be able to come in until mid-morning or even early afternoon. Seeing as how my stomach is starving and I'm not supposed to eat or drink anything before going in, I am extremely bummed by this info. We will still be going in sometime today, so maybe the baby will cooperate and come fairly quickly and not keep me in labor for hours and hours and hours. We'll let you know. :)

Last Days II

Well, as the proverbial astroid known as "baby bruder" prepares to completely rock his unsuspecting world, we decided to take Weston on a series of outings today to celebrate his few remaining hours as an only child. His status as outright favorite: child, son, little boy and grandson are automatically called into question and will never again go unchallenged (even if only for appearance sake). It will be quite an adjustment for all of us.

Just so you don't think that the officially unnamed BBB2 will be shunned, I should let you in on a little secret....I'm actually more excited than I was with Weston. There are several factors at play here:

A) Weston came early, and didn't give me the full time to build up my excitement before he came. He was just all of a sudden here in a very surreal way.

2) I had just started my full-time grown-up job and I'm not ashamed to admit I was a little stressed about the responsibility of providing for a family. I was still finding my footing and faking all those things that I hadn't fully been taught in school at Vérité, so part of me was pretty sure I was just a few screw-ups and missed deadlines away from being fired. Rest assured, I was in no real danger of this happening, I was just stressing myself out. On a side note, if any of my superiors at Vérité are reading this, and I WAS in danger of being fired back then, please don't ever tell me.

III) I know what to expect (well, sorta) with this one. I know how awesome it is to hold a baby that is only minutes, if not seconds, old – and to know that he is yours.

Anyway, lets review the events that have made up Weston's last Saturday as a singleton.

Shannon really wanted to go bowling. I think we decided that her belly actually acts as some sort of natural counterbalance, causing her to bowl better than when she is not with child. Weston had a great time. The outing only resulted in one crying moment when I pulled him away from the crazy-spinning-wheel-O-hand-disfigurement that is the ball retrieval system.

Weston did awesome with my 13 lbs ball..... ok well, his was 5, but hey thats still like 20% of his body weight.

The results are in. Shannon Won.

Afterwords, we played a few quick games of skee-ball. Weston prefers the somewhat ineffective overhand technique.


We arrived at home around lunch time where my mom and sister had just pulled in.
Grandma had a special treat for our little ball of energy: His very own honest-to-goodness super hero cape.


After a few laps around the house, we all went to lunch together at McDonalds. Weston had a blast on the play place and even went down the big slide a few times (until we told him it was time to go).


After a much needed nap he was good to go for the rest of the evening which involved fine dining in the kitchen (courtesy of Grandma) and Easter Egg coloring.




A pretty busy day for the little guy. I am sure we will give you all an Easter update tomorrow as well. If not It probably won't happen, unless Shannon feels like writing about it using the wireless at the hospital (doubtful).