Samantha Marie

For those of you who haven't heard the news ... we have been blessed with a new member on our team David's Girls.

Samantha Marie was born September 30th at 6:52 am. Her stats were 6 lbs 2 oz and 18 in long.
Since some might say Adrienne's entrance into the world was a little too dramatic we decided to take the risk of being sent home and headed to the hospital after 1 1/2 hrs of regular contractions. I was checked and monitored for a while and it was determined that I was progressing and that we needed to stay.

Since Dave and I have always been fashionably late for these events we didn't really know what to do with ourselves. I guess that's why they tell you to bring movies and such.

So I thought we needed a picture of the bored but happy couple.

The night was pretty uneventful. I would have several contractions and then they would go away for a while. I was actually nervous that they were going to end up sending me home. But slowly but surely I continued to progress. By 6 am I was dilated to 5 so we decided to break my water to get the show on the road. After breaking my water it took about 5 to 10 min for the contractions to start. Each one was progressively stronger. While I was in the bathroom I had 2 contractions that were out of my mind strong. With the second one I felt like I needed to push. So I of course screamed just that as Dave and I tried to get back to my bed as fast as possible. I really thought I was going to drop the baby on the floor before I could even get into bed. The midwife checked me again, although I could have told her I was complete. :) I pushed once and out came our beautiful girl.

This was obviously much more "controlled" than last time. However the actual birth was still super crazy fast. It was actually so fast that the midwife and nurses didn't even have time to put on their gloves. I'm just happy I made it to the bed. :)

Here we are all together for the first time - Dave and his ladies.

Adrienne kept telling us all "shhhhhh" since Samantha was sleeping.

Grandma and Grandpa Chupp were able to make it out in the middle of the night to stay with the girls the first day we were in the hospital.

Then Grandma and Grandpa Rhodes made it out Wednesday evening to see Samantha and then take over with the girls.

Morgan was eager to hold Samantha from the very start, but seemed to be more and more into her every time she saw her.

We figured out that much like her sister Morgan, Samantha sleeps better when swaddled. Then Dave figured out when she's all wrapped up he can carry her like a football. :) Those of you who know Dave know that he is always singing to his girls. So here he is singing the Armchair Quarterback song to the cutest football around.

It felt really nice to be home, all together.

Morgan and Adrienne were very excited to have their baby sister home. They loved watching her and didn't want to leave her side.

I knew Morgan would be very in to Samantha, but Adrienne really surprised me. She wanted her turn holding her too and was very interested in this newest addition to her world.

This really was too sweet. Morgan thought Samantha might enjoy the bedtime stories. So she held her while Grandma read to them.

All in all we are doing well. It's hard for me to believe that we are lucky enough to have 3 beautiful girls. I feel very blessed.