False alarm...

Shortly after I posted last night's blog that explained about us having the neighbor's paging phone close at hand...it rang! Kathy was having contractions 7 min. apart! The doctor had told her to get to the hospital if they got as close as 10 min. apart....after all this is baby number 5 and he might decide to come quickly. Well, I had just sat down to get started on the baby's siblings' shirts...and, if it was the real thing, they would need the shirts in the morning...sooooooo...Nathan came over and carried my machine over to their house before he and Kathy headed off to the hospital. Then Woody went over to sit at their house until I could gather all my sewing needs together. I got everything together and headed next door to sew designs on shirts so they could proclaim that they were big brother and sisters the next morning...if their baby should arrive in the night!

But, alas, it was a false alarm. They discovered at the hospital that Kathy had an infection and that that had probably brought on the contractions. They gave her IV antibiotics and then sent her home. They got back home around 1 am.

Good news...the baby and sibling sewing is finished (tonight's blog picture) so NOW the baby can come...whenever the time is right for him to come! And the pager phone will still be close at hand through the night! Kathy is feeling much better today and contractions are far and few between again. She said if the same thing happens tonight that she is just going to go to bed!

Woody has had a regular work day, walk at lunch and then home to relax. He has been rather sleepy this evening. He did make a short trek to the library as he had finished all his books...lots more books getting finished these days with the poor TV signal that we are getting!

Tomorrow is our marathon afternoon/evening at Vanderbilt. The appointments start at 2:25 and the last one is at 5:30. Lots being fitted in between those times...and we were told that the last one would probably be backed-up so no telling when that will actually happen. I'm pretty sure that we will be home fairly late tomorrow night so the blog will probably be quite late.