He's Here!

My cell phone rang at 6:45 this morning. My first thought was "I wonder if Helena had her baby! Sure enough it was Doug with the good news. He said that Helena was holding a baby boy. (I cried, and put the phone on speaker so Jim could hear too.) His name is Anders Alfred, and he was born at 2:18 a.m. PST. He weighed 6 lbs. 5 ounces and is 19 inches long. AND he was born on Kate's birthday. (Dec. 27 was not a due date for either of them, so I suspect the kids decided on that ahead of time.)

I asked Helena if he looks like Kate did when she was born, and she said, "Yes, all splotchy and purple!"

For just a second yesterday I remembered that Helena had an appointment with her doctor at 1:30 that day. I also knew that at her last appointment he told her she was dilated 2 centimeters. He said, "See you next week if not before." The idea occurred to me, briefly, that I ought to call and see what the doctor said this time, but then I mercifully forgot, and didn't think about it again until the phone rang this morning. Why do I say mercifully? Well, I suspect that Heavenly Father knew I would worry the whole time, so he just let me forget. :-) I am SUCH a great worrier you see, so if you ever need any worrying done, call me…

Well when she went for her appointment the doctor said she was dilated 3 cm. and was 80% effaced. He couldn't figure out why she hadn't had the baby yet. (I know why. He was hanging on until his sister's birthday as pre-arranged.)

I seems to me that when Kate was born we all arrived at the hospital only 2-3 hours before she did, so you'd think that Helena might have a clue that she ought to get to the hospital pretty fast once things got going… Well, to make a short story shorter-- they walked in the door of the hospital about 1:45 a.m. and he was born at 2:18. (I'm actually glad I wasn't there this time.)

This is the only picture we have so far:
She was 38+ weeks along. Aww-w-w-w, what a cute bump. He looks just like…