Arrival of June

Yesterday on June 20, 2011 at 9:53 am June Elizabeth Price was born in the Logan Regional hospital. Here's how it unfolded. Jen has been dilated to a 4+ for the past week or so. However, when I got in town from china I asked if she could hold it until the 20th because last week was extremely busy. Since my company is based in Utah there are often a lot of meetings when I do come in town. Last week had a bunch of them slammed into 4 days with people from France, new Zealand, Taiwan and Malaysia all coming in town for the meetings. Turns out I have a new boss. He is French and is based in our office in Paris. He's a great guy and things should go well. After the meetings I had Ragnar. I ran on the company team, Nordictrack. It was a lot of fun and I realized these events are much more pleasant when you lose 20 lbs.

But back to the important stuff. Jen is a saint and kept the baby in so we now have a full week together with family without interruptions of meetings. June is so cute and such a joy to have here. The delivery went very smooth. We arrived at the hospital at 7:15 am scheduled to induce. The broke the water around 8:30 and then started the pitossin around 9:00. She thought about going without an epidural until she dilated very quickly and started to be in a lot of pain. They quickly did one at 9:30 which brought instant releif. She started pushing at 9:49 and out she came at 9:53!! The cord was wrapped around the neck twice but the dr didn't seem concerned so I wasn't either. He asked if I wanted to cut the cord to which I responded "um, no. That's what I paid you for". June was 7lbs 5oz and 20in long. She has dark hair and long fingers. She is a very good baby so far. Jen stayed in the hospital for just over 24 hrs and then we brought her home. We rented a place a few blocks from then hospital which has been great. Both of our moms have already made trips to Logan to see baby June and a couple of my sisters have come as well. It has been a lot of fun so far. Jen and June are both doing great.

The Chinese character for "good" 好 is made up for two characters put together. The two parts are boy 子 and girl 女. Together they form 好 meaning good. So a man and a women together is a good thing and having a son and a daughter is also a good thing. It's a good pair. We've got a good pair now.

Pictures to follow. They are probably already some on my moms blog.