The Scrapper Gets A Second Wave

Of visitors. Auntie Jamie came to meet him.

Jeremy came along as well.

Later, Eric and Kathleen stopped in to say a first hello.

After all, who could resist this beautiful boy.

The Scrapper Has A Stork Arrive

Early this morning, on the front lawn.

Then it was time for Maddie's mid-morning bottle, which she took next to her little brother, while watching Spongebob and patting his foot.

Sam slowly recovered from the scars of a second natural childbirth.

The Scrapper Gets His First Visitors

But first cuddle time with Mimi, who is now an experienced grandmother and doula after assisting with the birth of Maddie, Aiden and now Max.Beautiful flowers lightened up the house from Auntie Jamie and Smooth Andre.

Then Max got to meet Drew, experienced dad of ELF.

And Steve, experienced father of Lilly and Elizabeth, who also brought over much appreciated food for this sleepy family to munch on.

Maddie spent some time in the backyard with Dad in her new pool.

Max remained inside (the house, not Jess), sleeping and growing.

The Scrapper Is Fast

At 11:30pm, Jess is awoken by the Scrapper announcing that he will be arriving tonight. And what better time to get a last minute pix of him still on the inside, than when you're in labor?

Sam begins timing the contractions, which are immediately coming every 2 minutes and are less fun than they look.At 1:30am, the midwives arrive at the house. At 1:44am, Max is born.By 4am, the house is quiet again, and Mimi, Sam, Jess and Max try to get a couple hours of sleep in before Maddie wakes up to find that her entire life has changed. Amazingly, she slept through the entire birth, which included some ice being broken with a hammer.

After letting her parents sleep in until 7:45am (her typical wake-up time being 6:30am), Maddie met Max for the first time. She came into our room, and Sam pointed him out. She wanted to get closer, patted his head, and called him "Kitty," which we take as the highest form of flattery, what with the kitty being her favorite play thing in the entire house. (For those of you wondering, the actual kitty is much less impressed by Max, and has taken to coming in only for meals).

Late afternoon, Max was introduced to some of the neighbors as word spread through the block that he had arrived.

The Scrapper Gets Born

Max is 8 hours old.

And at 3 hours with Dad.

Slappy Has Huevos Rancheros

In an effort to get out of the house before the stifling heat, Mimi, Mom and Maddie headed out to brunch in Pasadena. It was her first time having the aforementioned dish. And how did it go over?

Awesome!

Slappy Goes To A Surprise Party

But first, Mimi made a peanut butter, chocolate cake. Aunt Tara made herself a chocolate cake the morning that she went into labor with Aiden...

Then it was over to Brian's to wait for the birthday girl to arrive.We entertained ourselves with food and drink.Conversation about hatch plug-ins.And bacon.The tension was thick in the air - would she be surprised? Would Jess' water break when she jumped up, yelling surprise?
(Jess is 39 weeks pregnant).Alison was very surprised and happy.

The party then moved from the very hot inside to the less hot backyard.

Where Maddie was taught the skill of hiding Starburst candy in various areas of your clothing by the team of Holly, Jess, Alex and Erin. Later, approximately 15 candies were found during a wardrobe change into pjs.