Photo Time!

The birth story is still to come, but we wanted to get some pictures of the little one out for everyone to see. Chase and Helen are doing very well and Chase is gearing up to meet all of his friends and family. Thank you all for the well wishes, it means so much to know that we have so much support and that Chase is surrounded by so much love!



He's just a little guy





Don't be fooled by his head, he is a skinny boy!



Veronica was Chase's first visitor, and he even opened his eyes!



Which may have been because she brought him his first Pooh Bear!



We're working on a family picture, but Chase didn't open his eyes for the last one, so that will be along shortly. Thank you again for all the love and we can't wait for everyone to meet him!

Love,
Helen, Stephen & Chase

It's a boy!!

Stephen Chase Lamont, Jr. was born on Wednesday, May 12, 2010 at 6:17 pm, weighing 6 pounds and 5 ounces, and measuring 20 inches in length!



Chase and Helen are both doing very well.

Birth Story to come...

Labor Watch: Happy Due Date to Us

Today is Baby L's due date! It's the date we've been waiting on since we found out that I was pregnant back in September. It's hard to believe that it's finally here...and Baby Lamont is still cooking!

In celebration of this milestone, I got a manicure/pedicure and we had a delicious dinner of mac n cheese and ground beef (enjoying my last few days of eating whatever I want) and broccoli (see, I got my veggies). Tomorrow we have an ultrasound to check fluid levels and a Dr's appointment. Ironically, I had to call today and find out what time the appointment was because I didn't listen last week- I thought there was no way I'd be making it to that appointment.

I realize many of these questions have been answered in the other posts this week, but here's the 40 week summary...

**How Big is Baby?: To be updated tomorrow, post-ultrasound

**Maternity clothes? Please, no more!

**Total weight gain: Up 26lbs. But who cares at this point?

**Stretch marks? One, but Baby L is pushing out so I'm afraid there will be more.

**Sleep: Fine. Sadly not being awoken by contractions. Just a few pee breaks.

**Movement: Lots of movement most days.

**Food cravings: Things that I won't be able to have or want to have post-baby...Chocolate, lots of carbs and cheese, etc.

**Feeling: Pretty good. I'm a little frustrated that the baby isn't here but kind of excited to answer the "When are you due?" question with "today" or "yesterday"...but hopefully never "last week"...

**Emotions: Mostly I'm pretty happy, but I've had my teary moments. Better than last week! And definitely better since I accepted the fact that the baby will come on his or her own time.

**Health/Exercise: Walking, but running as much as I feel up to it. Trying to shake my body into labor. It clearly has not worked.

**Labor Signs: More false labor pains on Saturday and last night. Actually, I'm still carrying the baby pretty high and he/she is kicking my ribs so I haven't had the pre-labor "drop". But I don't think that means much because my mom said that none of us ever dropped. For those of you who care, I have not lost my MP (and if you don't know what that is, you don't want to).

**Next Doctor's Appointment: Tomorrow.

**Best moment this week: Mother's Day brunch at CoCo Sala. Have I mentioned that I have the best husband???