Eli decided he didn't want to wait until the scheduled c-section, so he went ahead and got things moving this last Saturday.  Eli Vance Bockus was born at 12:56a.m. on October 4th!  He weighed in at 9pds 0.2oz and his height was 20in. He came out screamin...

Charlene started having contractions about 10mins apart on Saturday night.  We had already put Beau down for the night, so we really didn't want to wake him up for the trip to the hospital just in case it was false labor. While I was arranging to have somebody come over to watch Beau (Thanks Rick and Gordon!), the labor quickly intensified.  By the time we got the hospital around 11:30, Charlene was already dilated 4cm.  They moved pretty fast and got Eli out of there before we had time to think "Oh crap, we're having a baby tonight!"  The stay in the hospital has gratefully been uneventful.  Charlene and Eli are both doing really well, and we're hoping that we get to come home on Tuesday. 

I think we got ourselves another handsome boy.  I actually think he looks a lot like his older brother.

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 There's some more pictures in the Eli's Birthday album.  I'm sure I'll be posting more once we get settled in at home.