It's almost show time!!! August 16, 2009

A little after midnight last night, Ray and I received a call from Jen to let us know that Angela was on her way to pick her up to take her to the hospital. (Tim works nights and 2 jobs on weekend.) The 2 of them headed over to the hospital, with Tim meeting them there. We hung tight until around 2:30 am, then headed out to get some coffee as we were just a bit too antsy to go back to bed. There are not a lot of choices at that time of the night (or should I say morning), so we headed to an International House of Pancakes downtown near the hospital. Yesterday was "move-in day" at the University of South Carolina and I am not exaggerating when I say that Ray and I were the oldest people there, with the possible exception of a couple of the wait staff. Anyway, we ended up at the hospital to sit with the kids while Jen was being monitored. She was making good progress (contractions 3 - 5 minutes apart), but she was given the option to either stay at the hospital or go home to relax in her own surroundings. She opted to go home because she felt that she would be able to rest better there. We left the hospital around 5:30 am. Jenny has been in labor for several hours now and the contractions are getting much stronger and lasting for much longer. The nurse that was attending to her before Jen left said that she would most likely be seeing Jen back later today. It's looking like we'll get to meet Baby Girl some time today. I will keep you all posted. For now, I will sign off to try and take a nap. (We only got a couple of hours of sleep last night/this morning from around 6 - 8 am!)