Happy Birthday Lytton!

I can not believe my baby is one! This has been the fastest, but best year ever! Lytton turns one today, and in celebration of his first birthday we are going to have a fun backyard BBQ with friends and family.
Rich and I started talking last night about the day he was born and what we were doing at the exact time it was a year ago! Its amazing how much we still remember, I better write it down now so I don't forget 5 years from now. So here are some of the memories from lyttons birth. I went into the hospital on the 14th to be induced. My veins apparently aren't visible enough because it took 4 nurses and an anesthetiologist to get my pitocin started. I have never had so many bruises on my arms from all the pokes they took at me. By the time they got everything started it was late afternoon about 5 or 6 and I had gotten there at 11am! After that everything went pretty fast or so I thought. I was dilated to a 6 by 8 o'clock and then I wanted my epidural. I had my epidural in by 9 and then was to a 10 pretty quick after that.
Rich and I watched a video of me after my epidural was in place and I was feeling pretty good at that point and I had said that they baby would be born by 10:30. Little did I know i still had 5 long hours ahead of me! I stared pushing around 9:45-10:00 and things seemed to be moving along just slowly which I hear is normal for your first birth. Now I have to add in here my mom was there with Rich and I the whole time. She was on one side and rich on the other trying to help me push this baby out. Also a side note to is that the 14th is my parents anniversary. My mom wanted this baby born on the 14th to share her day. So by 11:45pm my dear mother is holding one of my legs for me and is telling me to push as hard as I can because I only have 15 minutes left to midnight. She said that every five minutes until midnight, I almost kicked her out! Not really but she was kinda persistent on that baby being born on the 14th. So I pushed until about 1am which was three long hours of pushing. The doctor decided I wasn't making any progress so they decided a c-section would be best. Lytton was born at 3:06 am on August 15th. I guess he wanted to come on his own terms and have his own day! Lytton is such a blessing for Rich and I. We wouldn't know what to do without him he lights up our lifes everyday. He is growing up so fast but he is getting so smart. I teach him things and I love it when the light bulb goes off and he gets it. It took a lot to get him here, but I wouldn't change it for anything we love him more than anything. Happy Birthday Lytton!

Have a great weekend!

He has grown so much!