it's a boy!

I'm an aunt!!

Baby Doug has made his way into this world. Tuesday, August 14th, Brodi Scott Eccles was born. I worked that day at Billy Vanilly. Kelli was induced that morning. I was hoping for a busy day so that I could keep my mind occupied and not constantly thinking about what could happen at any moment in Chanute. Of course it was a slow day though, and I had plenty of time to think of what was going on. Pretty sure it was the longest day ever full of excitement and great anticipation of meeting my sweet niece or nephew.

After work, I had to make a delivery before getting on the road to Chanute. It was the worst delivery ever! First of all, I didn't know where I was going (although I did have directions!), and it was on the other side of town. So I'm driving along and finding my way, all is going well. Then I run into road construction. They didn't have it planned out very well. Me, along with several other cars, followed the detour that only led us to a dead end. We all had to turn around and find our way back out. Keep in mind, I have never been in this neighborhood before so I had no idea where I was going. I finally found my way out!

After what seemed to be forever, I finally reached the neighborhood I was looking for (and found more road construction along the way) as well as the house. I grabbed the cupcakes, walked to the door, knocked on the door (no doorbell of course!) many times, no answer. What to do, what to do! I sat the cupcakes down on a chair on the front porch and walk away. I called the store to have them call the lady who ordered the cupcakes to see if she can get a hold of the lady they were being delivered to. Thankfully it was a nice day out, so I knew the cupcakes would be okay for at least a little bit sitting outside in the shade, but not for to long. As I'm on the phone with a co-worker standing by my car, a lady opens the door and steps out onto her porch of the house the cupcakes were being delivered to. She asks if I was delivering something to her, and I explain that I had a cupcake delivery for her and pointed to them on the porch. She thanked me and I was on my way. Finally!

Then another challenge presented itself and it had to do with more road construction. I felt like I was driving around this neighborhood in circles...because of road construction there seemed to be only one way out. It should not have been that difficult to get back to the main road. But it was. All of this to say...what should have been a 10-15 minute delivery, turned into being a 30-40 minute delivery...of all days for this to happen!

Anyway, I got out and was heading back to my house to grab my stuff and go, when about this time I got the text message from Devin to be on stand by. At this point I was about to go crazy, I just wanted to be on the road to Chanute! But it was getting close to 5:00 and there was a lot of traffic...I couldn't get home fast enough. I had been driving for about 20 minutes or so when I received another text message from Devin saying Brodi had been born! :) If it wasn't for me driving I probably would have been jumping up and down! I was so excited!!!!

When I got to town, I was planning on going straight to the hospital but they were bathing Brodi and switching rooms and all that good stuff. So I had to wait some more. Finally though, after what seemed to be forever, we were hospital bound and I got to meet Baby Brodi! He is absolutely precious!

Meeting Brodi for the first time! :)

Uncle Dusty loves his Brodi!

Proud Uncle!

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Grandma with Brodi.

Devin and I! I had to get a pic with the proud dad!

Grandpa with Brodi!

Proud Grandpa.

Brodi gets no attention at all....:)

Brodi is one lucky kiddo!

Dad and Brodi...so sweet!

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Mom and Brodi! Again...Brodi is one lucky kiddo! :)

Day 2...we decided to take his hat off and get a pic with his hair. Very curious to see how it turns out! It was curly, but it is getting straighter. It was dark, but it is getting lighter. Time will tell! :)

Aunt Kaci with Brodi!

Chrissy and Brodi sharing a moment! :)

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Family picture with the newest member! :)

I love this...the pacifier takes up almost his whole face! :)

So precious!

Great Grandma meets Brodi for the first time. I forgot to take a picture with Great Grandpa and Brodi. :(

I zoomed in because I wanted you to see his hat! It's a giraffe....do you see it? Cutest thing ever! Good find Kel Kel!

Needless to say...Brodi is one loved baby! :) We are all happy to have him here! I am one happy aunt and I can't wait to see him again! It was hard to come back to Topeka Wednesday night, but soon enough I will see him and hold him again! :)