Bringing Home Baby

We brought Tyler home from the hospital this morning. It was a smooth ride home and were able to be home before lunch time! Tyler's first day at home was quiet and peaceful as the kids have been spending time at Nonna and Pop-pop and Mimi and Popi's house. They won't be home until Friday so we will get to spend a few days homes just enjoying Tyler. He was been a wonderful baby thus far! He hardly ever cries, even when he's hungry and he has just been so relaxed and calm. He has even slept 3-4 hour stretches at night! We hope he continues with this pattern and can't wait to see what his little personality will be like!

Welcome Tyler Anthony Harbold

 

We are happy to announce the birth of Tyler Anthony Harbold on December 27 at 12:41pm. He weighed 9lbs 9ozs and was 22.5 inches long. Tyler's middle name was chosen in honor of Laura's grandfather Anthony Campisi, who passed away in early 2008. Laura opted for a c-section since we knew he was going to be another big boy. The surgery went smoothly and she will be recovering in the hospital for 4-5 days to make sure her incision heals and she is able to move around. 

We had a lot of family in town to welcome Tyler into the family. Mimi, Nonna, and Aunt Lindsay were at the hospital and got to meet him right away. Popi and Pop-pop were at home holding down the fort with Caitlynn and Luke. There were able to bring the kids to the hospital after dinner to meet Tyler. Uncle Rusty came down from Lancaster after work just to meet his new nephew.

Caitlynn was in love with her baby brother and wanted to hold him right away! Luke was not as excited about him and didn't show much interest in holding him. We think he will eventually warm up to him! In the mean time, Caitlynn will get to enjoy all the extra "baby holding".  We can't believe we are finally a family a 5 and certainly now feel complete!

Christmas

We celebrated another wonderful Christmas at home. This year, Caitlynn was really excited about opening presents and we think she enjoyed ripping off the paper more then looking at her gifts! She was able to open most of her gifts in under 30 minutes! Luke really enjoyed playing with each gift as he opened it so opening his gifts was an all day event! This year, Nonna and Pop-pop spent Christmas Eve and Christmas morning with us so they were there to watch the kids open their gifts first thing in the morning. Mimi and Popi joined us mid-morning and got to enjoy the kids opening and playing with their gifts. Uncle Rusty and Lindsay joined us for dinner and the kids just loved showing off all their new toys to them! This year for dinner, we decided to order Chinese from a local place in Columbia in true "Christmas Story" fashion. We all enjoyed eating with chop-sticks this year! It was a great day where they kids were spoiled from Santa yet again!

37 Weeks,.. into the home stretch!

Laura is now 37 weeks pregnant and into the home stretch of the pregnancy! She had a doctors appointment today with an ultrasound to find out the baby's weight. Baby boy is currently 8lbs 8 ozs with a head circumference of 40 weeks. No one is surprised that he has continued his growth above the 95%! Laura and Ryan talked to the doctor about delivery options because of his size. We all agreed that a C-section would be best at this point and we are scheduled for December 27th. We are all so excited to have an "exit date" and to finally get to meet baby boy! Now the question is,... how big will be turn out to be! We can't wait to find out in 2 short weeks!