Well I think that it is about time to update my blog, and this is the first time in almost three weeks that I have had a chance to sit down and write a little something.  Well Sophia Rose Hoeme arrived on Monday September 8, 2008 at 7:19 pm.  In fact it was the day right after my first blog...kinda crazy !!!  It was a long delivery.  I started with contractions about 3 am on Sunday night, and since I wasn't sure what exactly they were, so I called mom and asked her what she thought.  Good old Mary said that she was almost sure that Sophia was ready to make her appearance.  By 4 am I thought that it was a good idea to wake Joshua up and have him start timing the contractions.  The were about 8 minutes apart.  I need to take a bath before the big event, but that made things go way too fast.  My contractions went from 8 minutes apart to 2 minutes apart.  So we were off to Scott Community Hospital, and checked into my room by 7.  When I got  to the hospital I was already dilated to a 3.  This made me proud, the entire time before her delivery I was worried about the amount of pain that I would be in.  And for anyone who knows me I am not good with pain.  But to tell you the truth it wasn't that bad, I would say almost tolerable.  As the morning continued I progressed and the time came to get an epidurral .  After that I felt like I was on cloud nine.  By 3 pm I was complete and ready to start pushing.  I pushed for about 2 hours and then Spohia decided that she wasn't going to come natural, so we were off to the operating room.  Finally at 7:19 Sophia Rose was born.  At first we thought that Sophia and Joshua were going to make a trip to Wichita because Sophia's respiration rate were too high, but after she had spent some time with mom she started to calm down.