{"id":7335,"date":"2013-01-02T09:18:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-02T09:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lesliegilbert.goodgallery.com\/blog\/2013\/01\/02\/introducing-luke-michael\/"},"modified":"2013-01-02T09:18:00","modified_gmt":"2013-01-02T09:18:00","slug":"introducing-luke-michael","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesliegilbertphotography.com\/blog\/2013\/01\/02\/introducing-luke-michael\/","title":{"rendered":"Introducing Luke Michael"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ever since April 20th, I knew about Luke.  Not that he was Luke, but that he was coming into this world.   I waited patiently for the 8 months that I knew for his arrival.   I got the call at 12:30 am on December 29th.   Since this was Mike and Jo&#8217;s second baby,  I knew it wouldn&#8217;t be long, so I rushed to the hospital.  Silly, I know, but I couldn&#8217;t risk missing anything.<br \/>\nThis was what seemed to me to be the easiest labor and delivery ever!  (In my opinion.  Jo might tell you different)<br \/>\nWhen it was time to push, I could barely see through the viewfinder.   When baby &#8220;Pickles&#8221;  (named lovingly by big sister Emma) entered this world and when &#8220;It&#8217;s a boy&#8221; was said, the room erupted in laughter and tears.  (I was a mess)   Mike now had his boy&#8230;  but no name yet.  Being in the room with his family as he told them they have a boy, was a moment I will never forget.  ( getting verklempt as I type this)<br \/>\nThen came time for Big Sister Emma to meet Luke.  She was very quiet and said a lot of  &#8220;Um hmm&#8217;s&#8221;.  I don&#8217;t think she quite understood how &#8220;Pickles&#8221; was on the outside of Mommy&#8217;s belly now and the loud noises he was making.  But, she did well.  <\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t even begin to tell you how lucky I am to be apart of Mike and Joanna&#8217;s life.   To have the opportunity to welcome both of their children into this world and be trusted with such private moments of their lives is beyond comprehension.<br \/>\nI love you all so dearly.  Congratulations to you again and again!   He is absolutely perfect!  <\/p>\n<p>Welcome Luke the Lion&#8230;..  <iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/56552910\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/56552910\">Welcome to the world Luke Michael<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/user1518703\">Leslie Gilbert<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lesliegilbert.goodgallery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Blog-Collage-1357132929962.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lesliegilbert.goodgallery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Blog-Collage-1357133487272.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lesliegilbert.goodgallery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Blog-Collage-1357133768816.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lesliegilbert.goodgallery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/643.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lesliegilbert.goodgallery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Blog-Collage-1357133912812.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lesliegilbert.goodgallery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/1271.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lesliegilbert.goodgallery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/1281.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lesliegilbert.goodgallery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/14310.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever since April 20th, I knew about Luke. Not that he was Luke, but that he was coming into this world. I waited patiently for the 8 months that I knew for his arrival. I got the call at 12:30 am on December 29th. Since this was Mike and Jo&#8217;s second baby, I knew it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-portraits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesliegilbertphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesliegilbertphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesliegilbertphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesliegilbertphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesliegilbertphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lesliegilbertphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7335\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesliegilbertphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesliegilbertphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesliegilbertphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}