Ryker Ryan Bruns

To my anxious reader: Ryker Ryan Bruns has arrived! He was born at 6:31 p.m. today. He weighed 7 lbs. 11 oz. (which dad guessed correctly right on the nose among the crew in the room--mom, doctor, nurses, etc.) Dad was just lucky though, dad was born at 7:11 so he threw the number out there. He was 19 inches long and his head was 13 1/4 inch. We had a very interesting day. It started with Alicia and I planning to leave the house at 5 a.m. so she could be induced. Luckily there has been a baby surge in Mitchell so the nurses let us know last night we would have to wait and so we had one more night to spend as a family of four people and 1 dog. I cooked spaghetti and garlic toast (house favorite) for the occasion. We got up this morning and I delivered the children to daycare, and came home. It didn't sound good when the nurse told Alicia that we would probably pushed back yet again, but as we prepared to leave anyways (probably for the waiting game) Alicia let me in on the fact that a baby sent the message he was ready to come out. Now it was time to go...so we took care of the small details to realize very quickly that one big detail was out of order. Alicia let our 6 yr old black lab out for one final potty break before we left. I went and called for her. NO DOG RETURNED. This isn't really unusual she'll come back eventually. But WE HAVE A BABY COMING. When we finally decided to forget the dog and head out Alicia noticed her out in a field across the highway. She came back, we hit the road. As always our kids are really interested in leaving mom too soon. So we kept this labor to about 10 hours. A record for quickness (previous 40 hours, and 26 hours). Ryker has come into all of our lives now. And I'm looking forward to every moment!!!

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[Kevin Kocer]

Congrats!