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Sweet baby Jordan is peacefully sleeping...for now. He is truly a blessing for me and Keith. He is starting to settle down a little on feeding. Last night he went for a record 6 hours of sleep before waking to be fed again. Then, two hours later, he was ready for more. Hey, at least I got a 6 hour break!

I have added some more pictures into Jordan's gallery. Click here These are mostly images from the hospital time when he was being born :) Pretty neat to look at these pictures and remember how quickly things progressed. Jordan is still healthy. He eats, sleeps, and dirties his diaper...a full day in his mind.

Erica, Jordan and I were finally able to be released from the hospital this evening. Dan and Nancy stayed with us the entire afternoon and helped release a lot of the worry with the joking and conversations. My annex of the Uplinger family is extremely blessed to have such a great support group of family members on both sides. I am unsure how others have done it without their own family groups supporting them through the process.

Jordan did get a clean bill of health and when we got him home, he made his entrance known with a dirty diaper! And for everyone who wants to know, yes I did help change the diaper multiple times! hehe. Hopefully tomorrow I'll be able to upload more of the images from the camera to the website for everyone to view. Time to get back to heating up some dinner for Nancy, Erica, and I.

Everything appears to be going well with Jordan. We are in the hospital for another night since the 48 hour period they like to monitor the baby will be at 2am. They should be releasing us if all looks well with him. I have posted a few more pictures taken from my iPhone. I have can't upload the pictures taken from my dad's camera because I forgot the cable that connects to the computer. Erica is doing well and we have been able to walk around the hallways so that she does not feel confined to this huge closet. Anyways, to get to the pictures you can click on the gallery link at the top and then on Jordan's album! Thank you everyone who has called us/emailed us/or visited us over the past few days. These have meant a lot to both Erica and I.

Baby Jordan Gerald Uplinger has arrived and is 8 lbs 5 oz at birth. He was 21 inches long and has some long brown hair. He and Erica are doing wonderful at the moment and he looks like a stud! Anyone with baby girls need to watch out when he turns 16. Fair warning :) I have posted only a few pictures at the moment that were taken off my phone to the website. The link is provided below. We thank everyone for their kind words and thoughts. We will try to keep everyone posted as things happen.

Jordan Pictures

Well, we are two weeks away from due date! I can't believe it is almost here! Keith and I went to our weekly doctor's appointment and having been surprised to hear last week that I had already dilated to 2 cm, today we were told I'd dilated to 3 cm. For those of you who haven't heard, the look on Keith's face when the doctor told us I'd already started dilating last week was priceless! I wish I'd had a camera to show you EXACTLY what I saw...classic! Guess Jordan will be making his grand entrance soon. We are getting ready with little things left to do to fully prepare and then we've always got packing that we can do when we run out of things to do for Jordan's arrival! :)

I feel pretty good, but I'm not nearly as comfortable any more. It is harder to fall asleep at night as my mind keeps going over all the things I think I need to do before delivery - although I know cleaning the baseboards in the garage isn't important. My hips are beginning to ache as does my back but I guess that's also a way for my body to tell me I need to settle down a little.

We'll keep you posted on any additional developments in the coming weeks!

Love ya,
Erica

Erica and I went to the doctor's office this morning for a sonogram and got some good pictures from the doctors. This is a picture of his foot...apparently he has 5 toes on it and it's big enough to kick Erica in the ribs often.

The next image is of Jordan giving the camera a kiss...he was sticking his tongue out and everything during the sonogram

Hey y'all! I am hopefully going to start blogging about the last trimester of the pregnancy and then about our little boy when he arrives! It is getting close...keep you posted!

We have seen another view of the baby (keith 2.0 or as dan would say erica 2.0) Erica and I got a few more pictures from the doctors and were able to hear the heartbeat for the first time. It was beating around 165 beats per minute. The doctor says it is normal and will slow down as the baby progresses in the development. During the sonogram the baby was very active and moving around. But was extremely shy and didnt flip over for pictures. Camera shy like me. Now we wait to see the doctor to get the rest of the updates.

More to come......