I spent the next 12 hours in labor. For the most part it was pretty easy as long as they kept the staidol coming to make the contractions bareable. At around 5:30am the Dr. had checked me and said that we were still probably a few hours away from delivery. Let's just say that the Dr. was wrong. About 10-15 minutes after he left, I felt a need to push. So they called him back in and he said, "you have about a couple hours of pushing." I am think to myself, there is no way I am doing this for two hours, so I proceeded to get down to business. I pushed and pushed and with in 40 minutes, she was here. We did not no that we were having a girl, and when the Dr. delivered her he said, "congratulations"..............Long silence.......I said, "do we have a boy or a girl?" It's a GIRL.......Since everyone had said or told us that it would for sure be a boy, since that is all Reynolds' seem to have....we figured Boy.
Taylor Lynn Reynolds was born at 6:42 am on November 17th 1994. My life was forever changed. Today, we celebrated her 16th birthday. It has been filled with so many emotions. I have cried on more than one occasion in the last couple of days. Children have so many milestones when they are small, but as they get older, they are few and far between. Today she got her license and in just 2 1/2 years she will be graduating high school. It seems like yesterday, she was running up the sidewalk to school for her first day of kindergarten. I was not emotionally ready for today. I found myself wanting to cry as she left to go and take her drivers examination. Where had all the time gone......I wondered. She returned from her exam with her quirky smile on her face and said, "Mom I did it." I was so proud of the young woman who was standing before me. With each of these milestones she reaches now, she grows up a little more each time.
I know she is growing up, but I always think back to that day when I held her for the first time. Because when I do that, she is still my little girl.
