My friend Breann who takes amazing pictures came over before Christmas and took some family shots to give to my parents and my in-laws. As you can see, it started out with us wanting the dogs in the pictures, but that quickly took a turn for the worse, so it ended up just being the 4 of us. Then she took some wonderful shots of the kids. He, he, I LOVE saying kids. :)
Well we did it. Our new baby is here. Gideon Vincent Crandell was born on Thursday December 4th at 8:23 am. He was a big guy, weighing in at 9lbs. 2oz and 21in long. He was brought into the world via c-section and that was a blessing. As I told in the previous post, we found out he was breech because of an ultrasound they did, after I went to the hospital because of the flu. And after talking to my doctor, we decided against turning him outside the womb prior to my due date because we thought he might be a big guy anyway. Well that turned out to totally being a "God thing". When he was born, we found out not only was he big, but the cord was wrapped around his neck 3 TIMES!!! If we had tried to turn him, I would have had to have an emergency c-section and Gideon's life could have been in jeopardy. Needless to say, God's hand was totally on our family and I am SO thankful. When I think about how good God has been to this family, well it brings tears to my eyes. And I can't wait for you all to meet the completion to the Crandell family.
Well, I saw the doctor this morning and the baby is still breech, so I have a c-section scheduled for Thursday at 7:30am. Ironically my actual due date. I am so excited. A little nervous but trusting in the Lord and maybe this is a blessing in disguise, because of all my problems with delivering Esther. Can't wait to share this experience with y'all.
