The Eidsons: September 2008

Wow...the past few weeks have been such a crazy, amazing, scary adventure for us! William arrived at 7:01 am September 8th weighing 7lbs 12oz. (quite a bit lighter than expected :) and measuring 21 1/4". He is beautiful and perfect and we still can't believe he's here! My recovery has been wonderful...praise the Lord and I am feeling close to normal.

So, we realized Wednesday afternoon that Ike was coming right for us. Lee drove down to our house late that night and packed us all up to get ready to evacuate to his parents house in Jersey Village. We had to stay in the hospital three days and were finally released at noon on Thursday the 11th....that is when the craziness ensued! William and I were being wheeled out of the hospital when I realized I wasn't feeling quite right. I was a little nauseous but was so excited to leave the hospital I decided to ignore it..plus traffic was getting really bad with people evacuating and if we didn't leave right away we would be stuck for hours. Well, we got about two blocks before I "lost my lunch" in a bag and traffic was so bad that there would have been no point trying to pull over anywhere...fun times. So I spent our first afternoon sick in bed, we think it was from the pain medicine I was on combined with motion sickness. But, after that I felt much better.

We rode out the storm and two nights without power in JV before heading on to Edna for a week. William has had a busy little life already! We got to come home on Saturday and found our house with little damage...lost some shingles, our fence and had a little bit of water leaked in through the windows and attic.

We are thankful that William is here and that he's safe and healthy. God has answered our prayers and blessed us immensely. We got to spend some great time with both of our families and didn't have to give birth during the hurricane! Thank you all for your messages and prayers, we appreciate it so much.