Today, Saturday, February 21, 2009 at 5:30AM, the Eutsey household added a new member, a new 8lb, 10oz, 22in. baby boy named Rilian Thane.  

This little man has been a tough cookie.  We thought originally that he was going to come on Feb. 12.  Jen was having some pretty consistent contractions in the morning, but by mid afternoon they had all but died away.  That made for a nervous work week for me coming up, knowing that it could literally be any minute that I could get the call. 

I didn’t get any more warning until Thursday.  Once again, I stayed home from work thinking that the baby was on it’s way.  Once again everything fizzled for that day.  However, Jen was convinced that Friday was the day and insisted I stay home again, which, considering the circumstances, I was all gung-ho to do.

Jen and I took advantage of the two days that I had off of work.  My mom had come over Thursday morning to look after the other three kids while we were at the hospital.  Since we were waiting for the baby to make his move we decided to go out to lunch and walk the Monroeville Mall, which was immortalized in the original George Romero classic Dawn of the Dead.  However, for Thursday, the mall walk didn’t do the trick, but our lunch at Corino’s was rather nice.

Friday was more of the same, eating lunch at Primanti Brothers in Monroeville and going to Target, Marshalls and Circuit City (it’s a shame that they are going out of business, but considering that I can still get a Panisonic 42” plasma cheaper on NewEgg,com goes to show you why that happened) to do our walking.

When we got home we had a nice dinner with the family, I don’t recall the meal, but it wasn’t some high falutin’ thing, just something simple, but nice.  We settled down for the evening waiting for our shows to come on, Dollhouse at 9 and Battlestar Galactica at 10.  We then settled in for sleep, knowing that it wasn’t going to last the night.

Jen woke me up at 2am to get prepared to take her to the hospital.  She had been in the shower since Midnight and was starting to have contractions closer and closer together.  So we packed up, let my mom know we were going and took off for the hospital.

A couple of hours and some details that are best left out later, we have Rilian!

Later that morning I go home and pick up the kids and take them to meet their brother.  For the time being I only have a couple pictures of Thorin which are very entertaining, well, because that is what he is.  Entertaining or distracting. 

My next post is going to be a photo gallery of sorts, so look forward to that…