Luke Daniel Fisher

Luke decided to make his anxiously awaited arrival into this world

in a rather unexpected manner at 12:28 a.m. this morning.

Weighing in at 7 lbs 1 oz, and measuring 19 inches in length, Luke is exactly the same size Eli was at birth! 

However, unlike Eli who was bald until he was over a year (or Alli for that matter), Luke has a full head of thick, silky, brown hair ~ maybe he gets that from Uncle Z????

Knowing that he would be here soon, we took the kiddos to Chuck E. Cheese's last night for a final hurrah as the Fisher Family of Four. I was MISERABLE, with very painful contractions every 4-5 minutes.

They were not letting up so we called the doc, who told us to come in.

On the way to the hospital, contractions were only 1-2 minutes apart and extremely painful.

Turns out that I was in active labor. At 11:30 p.m., my doc suggested we do the c-section at midnight.

Everything happened so fast, it seems like a blur but handsome little Luke was out at 12:28 a.m.

He was a bit blue as the cord was wrapped tightly around his neck multiple times and he had quite a bit of fluid in his lungs but after a short time (felt like an eternity!) he was screaming ;-) 

After we got to the recovery room, Daddy and Luke slept like champs, while I worked with the nurses to get the pain under control.  I didn't get much sleep but loved watching my handsome new man snooze ;-)

Uncle Danny, for whom Luke was named, was our first visitor. 

Luke was also lucky enough to have visits from Ducky Gramma and Papa, Miss Kaitlyn, Uncle Z, Barbie Gramma and Pop Pop, and of course, big sister Alli and big brother Eli.

We had no idea what to expect from Eli (we suspected, correctly, that Alli would be very excited).

Nothing could have prepared us for the joy we felt when Luke met his big sister and brother!!!

 Both Alli and Eli were over the moon and could not get enough of their new baby brother :-)

We LOVE our new baby boy so much and cannot wait for all of you to meet him!

Lots more pictures and stories to come but we are exhausted as we come to the close of Luke's first day.