A New Grandaughter...

This is taken from Mike's Blog, my son-inlaw
Violet Ruth Maughan Oct. 13, 2008
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Tuesday, October 14, 2008
Then there was Twig........ and we saw that it was good.


So my buddy Sam and his wife and kids came down to visit. Well they came for a funarel, but visiting us was a good biproduct. :) They left sunday morning and we went about our regular daily activities. Jen went to cleaning up toys and I went to studing and so forth. Jen was tired and didn't feel up to church so I went and took the worm. Nothing really significant happened on Sunday; until around 11pm. I was asleep and Jen was not. She didn't tell me that she had started contractions. My alarm goes off at around 6am(being extra tired cause Jen was up half the night "cleaning" and keeping busy but hadn't yet told me why) I thought it highly suspicious that she would ask me as I'm going out the door if I have the cell phone and if it's on. I go to class (which I was an hour early for.) and sit and talk to a class mate of mine. He hadn't been able to guess the weight of the unborn yet, so we chatted and I told him I was expecting a call from Jen to go have a baby. Not more than 5 minutes later, Jen called and I laughed and told my friend that I had to go and to tell our teacher that I was at the hospital having a baby.(well not me but my wife) and off we go. We get to the hospital and after about 45min of paper work and check ups. they take us to the "offical" Delivery room. 30 minutes later the man giving out drugs in the form of an epidural shows up. (Jen was in great pain at this point) and after he's done she doesn't feel much diffrent. It was a little late. 15 minutes later the nurse said she could see and feel the head of the baby coming through and so she told the Doc to git in the room. He had been in the hall for a bit just waiting for it to get closer. He had just check Jen like 2 minutes before the nurse said that he needs to get in there! I was a little worried that I would have to put on the catchers mask and go to work. No sooner than the doctor got his gown on and sites down does the head show up and poor Jen almost no drug relief, now has to push the kid out. The doctor tells her 1 good 10 second push and it will all be over. So she does and to the doctors dismay only the head comes out and the sholders just don't. So 2 more big pushes and it was over. We have a twig! Now you might be wondering why we call her "Twig" it's a nic and our first daughter has one it's "worm" cause she wiggled a lot. We couldn't call this one the same thing for obviouse reasons so it became twig. Violet was born Oct. 13th 2008 at 10:06 am (only an hour and a half after getting there) She weighed in at 7lbs 12 oz. Just one more ounce than Sarah was at. She was 19.5 inches long. Mother and Daughter are doing fine and are looking forward to coming home today.