The Mayo Family: Introducing . . .Koen Lowe Douglas

Happy Birthday to you,

We all welcome You,

Happy Birthday sweet Koen

We all Love You!

Sweet Koen Lowe Douglas was born yesterday on March 10, 2010 around 4:30 p.m. He weighed 8 pounds & 9 ounces (however he may have weighted closer to my original guess of the day if they wouldn't have let him breastfeed first!) :). He was 19.5 inches long. He is a little cutie! We are all so proud, especially Mommy Shaun & Daddy Shea! :). Big sister, Lexi & Big brother, Drake could not have been more precious angels at the hospital on his arrival. They were both so excited to meet their little brother.

My mom & dad came & picked me up on their way to Tupelo, after we got the call from soon-to-be new-Mommy (for the 3rd time) that she was in labor. I left straight from work in a frinzie!! I knew if I didn't make it home by the time my parents got there...they were SOOOOO gonna leave me! You can bet they were NOT gonna miss the birth of that sweet grandbaby because of my habitual lateness. CAn't say I blame them! :) Here is Mom & Dad in the car on the way to Tupelo...anxious that we wouldn't arrive in time. . .

We thankfully arrived WAY PRIOR to Koen making his debut! Lexi & Drake met us at the door of the hospital with their cute little "Big Sister" & "Big Brother" attire.

Look at these sweet faces!! :) It feels like yesterday that I was rushing off to meet these sweet little ones too!!!

Her are Shaun's parents sitting patiently in the waiting room. . .
Mimi is excited. . .

Herb, well...lets just say he didn't really like me snappin his picture all day! :) This is about the best picture I could get from him all day! Everytime he saw me point that camera at him he would grump and smile & turn away! :) hehe

We finally made it past all of the security back to the laboring mommy!
Nana & Moommy Shaun

Me & Mommy Shaun

(yes, she gets to be Mommy Shaun today, because I have baby fever & I want to be Mommy Nikki . . .but that's another blog. . .)

How cute is this face?? He was such an angel all day! Cute Stinker!

Here's the sweet family about 2 hours before Koen's devlivery. . .

Mommy & Lexi. . .

Mommy & Daddy. . .

We got kicked out of the room at about 4:10, because the nurse came in to check Shaun & let us know that she was FULLY DILATED & READY TO GO! Woo Hoo!! It was only about 15 minutes later that we got a text from the delivery room (from Lexi...she loves to text now & she stayed in the delivery room) that. . .

"Koen is here, but don't come back here!"

Really? Can I get a little more info than that please? :) I'm so impatient. So we all patiently waited out in the waiting room, . . .

and waited. . .

and waited . .

and

waited. . .

That was the longest wait to see a baby in the history of waiting to see babies! Seriously. We waited for almost 2 hours while they did who knows what, which of DID NOT involve weighing or measuring the baby? How do you NOT WEIGH A BABY WHEN IT FIRST COMES OUT PEOPLE? But all that matters is that Mommy & Baby Koen were doing great back there...we were just all about to die to see them! :)

Right after we got the text we told Drake, "Hey buddy, Koen is here & Your officially a Big Brother!" He had the cutest look...and he put his hand on his chest and said with a big girn on his face "ME?" So cute...i got his expression on camera...

He then replied with, "I'm not the baby anymore!" Cute little guy!!

Here we go...finally... alittle something! Shea comes out with the camera so that we can look at some quick picks & video of the baby! Look how sweet are those proud Grandparents & Daddy!!!