The Amazing, The Beautiful, The Absolutely Stunning, The PERFECT...Emersyn Rose Kennedy!!

She's here!! Yes, much to Heather's doctors' surprise, she delivered on her due date (8-9-10) with a couple of hours to spare! Her Doctor cleared his schedule for August 18th, because he was sure he was going to have to induce her, but Emersyn had a plan all her own! Heather had quite a tough day with 22 long hours of labor and then ended up having a c-section. She did such a great job all 22 hours! I probably heard her say 975 times that she was starving in all of those long hours, but she chomped away on ice chips and occasionally we would sneak a few sips of water...Sorry Jeremy! Hands down, she was a great patient and endured a long labor so very well! For a little story time...Lance and I had gone to the lake a few days the week prior to Emersyn's arrival date, and then finished up our weekend (we were celebrating our anniversary that weekend) in Dallas. We left to come home Sunday afternoon and had to make it back by 6pm to get to our church group we meet with on Sundays. We live in Longview which is about a 45 minute drive from Tyler so we drove straight into Tyler where we were meeting our group, but we got there a couple hours early. To kill time we decided to do some shopping, went and threw Mayer his ball in a field, you know just trying to find things to do until 6 o'clock. During this time we COMPLETELY forgot that when we left the following week for our lake trip, that we left from my office in TYLER and my car was still sitting at the office. Our plan all along was to pick up the car on our way back since we were going to be in Tyler Sunday night. Sunday, it never crossed our minds. After church group, we go all the way home to Longview, raise the garage, and Lance says, "Andrea, someone stole your car." Then without hesitation or a pause between sentences he immediately says, "we left your car in Tyler." Well, the time is now 9pm, we are exhausted. We leave to go get the car, get back home and as we are getting ready for bed, Heather is calling because her water broke!!!! Well, all of my tiredness escaped me and I was ready to hit the road back to Dallas. I picked up my bag of dirty clothes from our previous outing and I was on my way! I was so ready to see that little girl. I had been anticipating every little thing about her for so long, and I couldn't miss a thing. I mean this little girl has my entire heart! She is so precious, I don't want to put her down when I'm holding her and I miss her everyday. She is amazing...

Emersyn came out with some claws! But, nothing Aunt Annie and a finger nail file can't fix! :)

She already has such a special place in Uncle Lance's heart!!

This is my favorite pic of her!!

Resting after a good feeding :)

Ahhhhhhh....I love her...

What a great little outfit! I was about to change her diaper here, but after we got the 3rd diaper on her, she wasn't able to wear this anymore. She peed twice all over everything. Dang it. I will get better! Ha!

One day old!

And...how could we forget Oscar and Mayer?! :)