Aloha Tosh!

I (Corbin) am writing this post because our regular family blogger was out having a baby today. The last time I wrote, Meg had a baby. Does anyone see a pattern? Ha ha. If this continues, I'm going to limit myself to two more posts.

If you didn't know it already, Meg is one tough chick! Five weeks ago, Meg was perscribed to bed rest due to pre-term labor. She spent many hours following the doctor's order. But, sometimes, bed rest was too much for Meg to handle. Consequently, I often caught Meg buying groceries, going to the beach, or chasing Indie around the house. Yesterday, Meg was caught doing all three. I'm sure that had something to do with the start of her labor at 3am this morning.

We returned from shopping at 12:30am this morning. Meg woke up to heavy contractions at 3am. She braved her way through the first two hours of increasingly painful contractions as I slept. When she woke me up, I quickly realized what she was about to say. I had anticipated this moment for weeks, but no amount of anticipation would have stopped the jolt of adrenaline that I felt when she said, "Corbin, I'm going to have the baby."

After dropping Indie off at Jackie's house (Thank you Jackie!), we frantically began the journey to the hospital, . On the drive, Meg's contractions quickly got out-of-control. At one point on the drive, I had the guts to ask her where her pain level was on a scale of 1 to 10. She replied that she hated that scale. At that point, I knew that she had long since passed a 10. As Meg got more and more vocal about making sure that I drove as fast as I could, I got more brave about running red lights. As I drove on the shoulder and cut people off, I couldn't help but wish that I had put signs for our car that read, "WE ARE HAVING A BABY, RIGHT NOW!" before we left. At times, we both thought a baby was going to come out in the car.

We arrived at the Castle Hospital just after 7:00am and the baby was born at 8:13am. It only took 12 minutes of pushing. The amazing part of it all is that Meg did it without any pain medication whatsoever! One tough chick is right.

Tosh Kainalu Knight Thomander weighs 5 pounds 13 ounces and is 19.5 inches long.