Labor Begins

Mom started her first contractions that Saturday evening. Our trip to the museum worked! Mom let Dad and Charlotte sleep that Saturday night while she tried to decide for sure if she was in labor. After a night of no sleep and increasingly worse pains, she finally decided that yes, she was in labor. So she called Poppa and Grandma W. at 5:00 am on Sunday morning (yes, they were probably already awake) and they jumped in the car immediately to head to North Carolina to take care of Charlotte. They arrived around 4:00 that afternoon, as it turns out in plenty of time. Mom and Dad finally headed to the hospital around 10:00 pm on Sunday night and Charlotte stayed home with Poppa and Grandma.