the story..

I told you I would post the entire story of Bartelbe's birth but unfortunately there's no horrible birth story here. My mom had kept Burklee for a few nights before we had Bartelbe and Allan and I went up to the hospital at 10am in hopes of having our boy by noon. I had a c-section with a spinal so I could be awake for the procedure. Things went surprisingly fast this time and we heard his little lungs for the first time at 12:21pm. Allan was in charge of taking pictures again so he went into the next room while they started on his first assessment, weighing, washing, etc. I was able to hold him real quick before they headed into that next room. We spent a long time deciding on what to name him. It was between Carlyle and Lethareo and we ended up going with Bartelbe Lethareo Charles Jackson.

Bartelbe and Lethareo are from movies both Allan and I love. Ever since Allan and I started dating, movies has always been our thing. My mother gets onto us because we're constantly quoting movies in our everyday lives and most of the time, no one understands us, but us! And as meaningless as it sounds to have heard those names on movies, we put that past us and decided we loved them no matter what. Yes, "lothario" means something that most people do not approve of but our son's name is Lethareo and it fits him perfectly already. Charles comes from both Allan and my grandfather's name. Allan lost his grandfather before we met but I'm always told that I would've loved him. And I know he meant a lot to Allan.He's always telling me stories about him. My grandfather passed last year and it has been one of the hardest things I've dealt with. He was the strongest and most sensitive man I've ever known. He was not afraid of telling you what he truly thought and he would spend hours with Burklee on his lap watching Wheel of Fortune and football.

We spend two days in the hospital with such great help from our nurses and left on Thursday with the help from my mom. And we've been lounging ever since.

We appreciate everything everyone has done for us in the past couple of weeks. It really means a lot to us!

And thats our little story of Bartelbe.