Can you believe he is here!

Wow! I'm not quite sure where to begin... What a week and a half it has been!

First, thanks you to everyone for all of your warm wishes and help over the past week and a half. It has meant a lot to us and made our lives easier. Second, I decided to give this blog thing a shot to update everyone. Trying to keep everyone up to date with a combination of e-mails, text messages, and phone calls has gotten extremely hard and time consuming. I figured one central spot for info and pictures would work better. So if your interested keep checking back. I'll make improvements and keep it up to date as I can. OK..... Lets recap the events of the last week and a half! Nicholas Alan Cutler made his grand entrance into the world at 6:31pm on Saturday October 18th. Six weeks early. He is named after a bunch of people. His great grand dad, grand dad, and dad are all named Nicholas, we just have different middle names. Alan we borrowed from his other grand father! He's the cute guy in all these photos. Weighing in at a featherweight 5lb 1oz and 18 inches long! Kristin's water broke EARLY Wednesday morning (3:34am is the time I saw when I went running down the hall to see why she was screaming my name.) So we called the doc and off to the hospital we went. They checked her out and did an ultrasound on the baby, everything was in good shape. They gave her some steroids to help Nicholas's lungs, brain and intestines advance as much as possible before his arrival. Then they gave he medication to hold off any labor. This went on for two days. Friday morning all medications were stopped and they let nature takes it's course. Did I mention that every time they did an ultrasound his size put him a week ahead. So, although he was 33 1/2 weeks he was measuring almost 35 weeks in size! That helped him a lot. Early Saturday morning I got a call from Kris. It was time, this was going to happen today. Off I went to the hospital. Many labor pains, and an epidural later. We had our son Nicholas. What can I say about Kris - she made it look easy. Since then Nicholas has been in the NICU at New Britain General Hospital. The staff there has been amazing. We can't say enough good things about them. Nicholas has been fine since birth. He hasn't needed any interventions other than some IV fluids and light therapy for billiruben (sp?). Like his dad, he's eating way to much way to fast! Today he weighed in at 5lb 3.8oz., a good increase since he had dipped into 4lb territory, which was completely expected. Today we received more good news. He is coming out of his heated plastic hut into an open crib tonight, and best of all, it looks like he's coming home Mon night or Tuesday morning! We can't wait! Well that's about it for now. I'm going to get more images up onto the web so everyone can see. It may take a day or two so check back for directions! Hope all is well and than you all so much again. Not really sure how we would have done this without you all!