We won't soon forget "the weekend we waited for Oden." :) We heard that Annie was close to having him on Friday and we "quick!" put a plan together to be there to meet him. Gracie and Josh were thrilled to get to go to the farm for the weekend--so when Jeff got home at noon, we loaded everyone up and met G'ma Joan in Colfax. She was quite the trooper--she and Papa had just gotten back from a week in AZ visiting friends! But, no problem, they were delighted to spoil their grandkids for a whole weekend without Mom and Dad around... (Pictures to come--they ended up having a GRAND time--Abby's basketball game, playing at the Morrow's house, visiting G'ma Trudy and Papa LeRoy, and feeding kitties and getting to see Aristocats for the first time!)
Here we are, the White-Tag Crew. Oden decided that he'd take his own sweet time in arriving. So, we snuggled into Drew and Annie's hospital room off-and-on, throughout the weekend. Scott and Colleen drove over as well, and Martha and Slick and Twinkles helped keep vigil. Highlights of the waiting time included catching glimpses of Arrested Development Season Two(?), keeping track of nurses on duty, seeing what treats Colleen and Linda brought, and watching Annie's "mountain range" of contractions on the monitor.
So with Annie and Drew waiting patiently at the hospital for their son to arrive, we felt that it was our duty to go experience Portland for them. :) They directed us to Por Que No?--a Mexican restaurant that will live in infamy forever in our lives. I am quite serious. The best guacamole and margaritas reside here. We should've gone TWICE. But we DID go to Powell's twice...and we got to spend the better part of Saturday with my cousin, Megan, who is working on her Masters in Architecture at the University of Oregon in Portland. She has a great apartment that we got to see...we ate at Henry's...and she showed us the finer places in Portland that she frequents... So fun to spend time with you, Megan!!!
So on Monday, just when we were trying to prepare ourselves that we might have to go home without meeting our little niece or nephew, Oden decided to make his grand entrance! At 12:28, while putting a puzzle together in the waiting room, we got a text from Drew giving us our first glimpses of little Oden Thomas. We were thrilled at how big he was--5 lbs, 11oz!--and couldn't believe the strawberry blond hair that he was sporting! He is a little champ--arriving so early, yet breathing on his own, and within a day he was regulating his own temperature. We're pretty sure he's gifted from the very start!
After we got to see Oden in the ICU and give Annie a high-five, (did Jeff give Drew a "good-game" butt slap? I forget. He should have if he didn't...) we high-tailed it to the farm to pick up our sweet rug rats. It was late, so Jeff took Tuesday off of work and we spent the night at the farm.
Gracie and Josh are very excited to meet Cousin Oden...but we're going to wait until he's a little bit bigger to be certain he can hold his own in this hurricane of love. :)
We love you, Drew, Annie, and Oden! Thanks for letting us be part of your special weekend. This boy is precious! Well worth the wait.
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