so true

We've all seen this quote before. And it's nice. But you know where I took this picture? I took it in the room they put us in just before Ivar was born, where I was hooked up to the machine to measure the intensity of my contractions. I stared at this quote intensely and I found it timely and rather funny. Because at that point, my breath was taken away about every four to six minutes.

A big huge Welcome the the World to Levi Boehnen, my bff Heidi's little boy. He was born early Saturday morning after EIGHT minutes of pushing. Yowza. That's got to hurt. And it turns out, according to Heidi, it did. But Levi is here and I am so glad.