Pics of our baby Avery!

Chad/Steph with the Lee's

Chad/Steph with the Knaptons

The Grandparents all together on her second day!

Avery's First Week

Avery Nicole Lee was born at 2:53 AM on 6/19/2008 at 6 lbs 2 oz. She has been such a blessing to both of us. We're still working on bringing Foster around to agree that Avery is a good thing but he is doing better(he's probably grumpy from lack of sleep too).

The birth process was crazy quick and I attribute that to Steph working out on the Tuesday before Steph gave birth to Avery. Being in shape definitely helped everything go smoothly and a bit of luck and good genes. The whole process took less than 4.5 hours from first contraction to delivery!!

It has almost been a week now and we are learning the ways of being a "family". It's quite amazing to have your own child look you in the eyes and smile. Avery actually has already started a hobby of being artistic. She loves to walk through our hallway and look at the few pieces of artwork that we have.

Both sets of grandparents were able to come to Chicago to see Avery and tears were coming out of both Grandma's before they even saw Avery's little face. For Steph's side of the family, next up is her older sister Nikki's delivery and she is due on July 2nd(that is scary close to Steph)

That's enough for now but we'll check back in after a few more days to post more pictures and give an update on how things are going.