Camille - Coming Home

We've been home for almost a whole week and it's been great getting to know Camille. We've continued to have visitors here and there and took our first trip to Grandpa Robert and Grandma Kay's house today.

We spend our days staring at Camille and marveling at how in a matter of hours we went from a family of two to a family of three. It gets a bit difficult to want to look away from her and hop online to update the blog, but we'll do our best to keep updated with photos and stories. Feel free to call anytime or stop by if you're in the area...we'd love to see all of our family and friends!

Enjoy!
-Kendra, Steve and Camille

Camille - The First Day

Camille was born at 11:26pm the evening on a Saturday and we stayed in the hospital until late Monday morning. Our day or so in the hospital was full of bonding with our daughter and plenty of family visitors.

I'd like to very publicly thank my boss and friend, Eric for the Sunday morning coffee delivery. Needless to say, the hospital coffee left plenty to be desired, and Eric dropped off a delicious Stone Creek Americano for me to enjoy...thank you!

Enjoy a few photos from our first day in the hospital!

-Steve

Camille - The Waiting Room

Well the day finally arrived! Camille Bea Hawthorne was born on May 22, 2010 at 11:26pm. She arrived to the world weighing 9 pounds 1 ounce and measured 21 inches long.

We had a nice long labor and our families waited patiently in the hospital waiting room for news of Camille's arrival. Here are some snapshots taken by my brother, Ben in the waiting room.

Enjoy!
-Steve

Counting Down

Hello...Steve here contributing my first post to the baby blog. Now that we're counting down the hours until we finally get to meet this little girl, I figured I would hop on and post something.

A few weeks ago, our amazing photographer friend Courtney came over to snap some maternity shots of Kendra. (If you need a photographer for anything, I would highly recommend her! http://ellephotography08.blogspot.com/) I uploaded them to my Flickr account to share...enjoy the show and hopefully we'll be posting more news soon! Enjoy your weekend.

News You Can Shake A Stick At

Greetings all!

Little Bit Hawthorne is now scheduled for some hormonal encouragement this Sunday! Steve and I spoke with our doctor and before 42 weeks is imminent, we have elected a very safe and gradual procedure starting Saturday night and lasting through Sunday. This method encourages labor step by step until the labor activity gets rolling all on its own. Finally, some news that sticks to the ribs. There is some hope that labor will begin on its own here in the next 24 hours, but in the event it does not -there is a back up plan. We are ready to meet this baby!

Steve aka "stonecreeksteve" will likely keep everyone up to date with play by play commentary via Twitter. If you are not following Steve on Twitter, now would be a great time to sign up.

One more big, giant thank you to everyone who is keeping our family in their thoughts.

We'll be seeing all of you soon! Much Love, Steve, Kendra and Baby (and Jack)

Silhouette

I found this silhouette opportunity and thought of pictures mom and I have taken before. I thought I would share.

Steve and I celebrated our little family's first Mother's Day on Sunday with some time together and some time with Steve's family. It was a lovely day.

Baby's original due date (we had 3 dates given to us 5/9, 5/11 and...) is on May 15th! Maybe some action soon? We will be sure to keep you all as posted as possible. Thank you for all of your thoughts, calls, visits etc. We can't wait to see all of you soon!

Steve Assembles Stroller

Steve is so great at putting these things together. He also installed the bucket component in the car. We are officially all set. A huge thanks and hugs to Grandma Shirley and Grandpa Jay for the great gift!! And a big ol smooch to Steve for claiming the master-assembler job in our household.