This weekend we did babysitting swapping with our friends from church, Ben and Sarah.  On Friday they watched Alethea while we went to the Twins game and on Saturday we watched their son Judah while they went out on a date.  It was fun to get to spend a little more time getting to know Judah since he is Alethea’s hospital buddy.

What’s a hospital buddy?  It’s the term we came up with to describe the odd sort of way Alethea and Judah are related.  You see, Sarah and Ben started coming to our church when she was pregnant with Judah.  Her due date was in early May and Alethea was supposed to arrive in early April, so theoretically Alethea was going to be a month older than Judah.  After I went a couple weeks over due, I was scheduled to be induced on April 24th.  Then on the 23rd Sarah called me and said they were sending her in early to be induced because of some potential complications with continuing her pregnancy.  I asked her what hospital they were going to (somehow that had never come up in all the pregnancy conversations we’d had) and it turned out they were going to the same hospital we were.  Thus we ended up in the same hospital on the same weekend delivering our babies.  Judah was born April 24th and Alethea arrived on the 27th.  It was kind of a funny coincidence and apparently fairly rare as one of the nurses commented that she’d never seen it happen before.

Here are some cute pictures of the hospital buddies:

Judah says,"Hey man, give me five!"

Holding hands was their idea