Thursday, May 19, 2016

Lucas Matthew Stacey has a name!!!

Lucas didn't have a name for the first day of his life. We were sifting through a few and just couldn't settle on one. We knew we wanted Matthew to be the middle name but that was it. Our list was short but strong: Lincoln, Lucas, Calvin, Isaac, and William. Matt also really liked Kit and Max but I sort of vetoed those. 
Eliza really took to the name Luke and more recently decided she wanted to call him Lukey. So the nurses wrote his "name" on the board. We really went back and forth and back and forth. I never knew it would be so hard. 
But I'm thinking this is sort of how baby boy felt about the whole back and forth nameless thing.
SO the time came and we HAD to settle on a name. I was leaning toward Isaac Matthew and Matt really was too. So he finally penned it on the birth certificate. Then after a nice, long trip to the bathroom, he came out and said he wanted his name to be Lucas. And I said OK. So we crossed Isaac out and Lucas it was forever more. I am so glad that is where we landed on a name. It fits him perfectly and can't imagine any other name for him. And even the nickname Lukey has grown on me, it's kind of like lucky and that's how we feel to have him in our family. 
Getting ready to go home.

Lucas Meets some more Family

I love that we live by so much family and get to share these specialest of occasions with them. 
The text sent when Lucas arrived.









Wednesday, May 18, 2016

FINALLY a Family of Four!!

Lucas Matthew Stacey
Born May 18, 2016 at 38 weeks gestation
Weight: 9 lbs. 7 oz. 
Height: 20.5 inches
Labor was short and sweet. I was induced around 7am, water was broken about 9am and baby was born at 12:20pm after maybe 5 pushes and an awful episiotomy......
Don't know who decided that was a good idea. 
His first few moments of fresh air

Eliza was excited to meet baby brother but then, I think, she didn't quite know what to do with him. 








Eliza was excited to find out he had arms and hands and feet wrapped up in that swaddle blanket.

As displayed in the picture above, pregnancy and I do not get along.  Its crazy what it does to me physically, emotionally, and mentally. But I can now say, I am grateful for what we got from our trials....a sweet boy that was patiently waiting in Heaven to be a part of our family. We are so happy to be a fuller family. It doesn't get any better than this!!

Proud Daddy! He was in love at first touch.