Introducing Caleb!

Well, we will still call this blog "AveryO'sPhotos" although it is now "Avery and Caleb O's Photos!" Caleb was born on October 13th, weighing 7 pounds and measuring 19 and 3/4 inches long. He is perfect! He was born 2 weeks early -- Carolyn was induced after having high blood pressure for about a week. As I write this, Caleb and Carolyn are still in the hospital but will come home the day after tomorrow.

We are thrilled that Avery is a big brother, and we think that once he gets used to the baby, that he and Caleb will be great friends.



We had an amazing view from our (spacious, comfortable) labor and delivery room. It was rather a shock when we moved into the tiny, cramped postpartum room that Carolyn had to share with roommates.



Right after C-section:


Post-bath, we couldn't get over how perfect Caleb looked:








To be honest, Avery didn't show all that much interest in his baby brother. He was more interested in these Thomas stickers that Carolyn had bought him for this special occasion. He did, however, decorate Caleb's hat with one sticker, which the nursery nurses later said helped them to remember which baby he was -- they just looked for the sticker!



Of course, we loved that James was our first visitor in the hospital. He had come to visit when Avery was born, so we were happy to continue that tradition!