I try not to use the names of my family here in case you didn't notice.
If you're someone I know go ahead and email me and I'll tell you what her name is.

Born 11/17/08, Nine pounds, one ounce.

Labels: Babies, Family, fatherhood, Life, Numero_Dos, The_Boy

Everyone,

The neonatal unit sent us home last night to wait it out - I'm a little frustrated to have spent the weekend this way, it's like having Christmas day pushed back over and over. But it did give us a chance to visit a little with the wife's sister (She is flying back to LA this afternoon) and to go out and get a new camera. The times sure do change - we found a 10MP Kodak on sale for $130 (The 4MP Hewlett Packard we bought when the boy was born in 2003 was like $250!)

Anyway we are going back in again on Monday morning bright and early.

Thanks for your thoughts and prayers - I'll send another email when I have more news, and hopefully pictures of the baby from our new camera!

Labels: Babies, Family, Numero_Dos, The_Boy

Those ultrasound images have been piling up, finally got around to scanning a few:



"Hi" -






A.k.a., The Face on Mars:






Nose, Mouth, Chin:

Labels: Babies, Family, fatherhood, Numero_Dos

After an unannounced month-long hiatus, here is what has been going on, hopefully to become their own posts at a later date:

• Attended somebody's wedding
• The boy turned 5
• Then he graduated from preschool
• My sister is selling me my dad's old Lund S-16 fishing boat
  
• My lawn came up approx. 33% dandelions this year

Oh yeah, and there is this matter of the wife's tight-fitting clothes and her inexplicable craving for bizarre foods including pickles (Honestly thought that one was a myth)... Yes, we are pregnant again with our second child. We are at 14 weeks as of today. We kept the first trimester mum due to a blood clot that we could see in the early ultrasounds. With a lot of prayer and taking it easy, as of last week the clot is gone and everything looks good for a late November (Thanksgiving) baby.

We are going to an all-inclusive place in Cancun for all of next week to lay in the sun and do... NOTHING!

Am I boring you?
For those of you looking for better content I suggest you look no further:

Labels: Babies, Boats, Dad, Family, fatherhood, Life, Music, Numero_Dos, The_Boy, Video

You and I, we attend yet another one of these weddings. A sunny day, an overjoyed bride, a Groom standing an inch taller than normal with his chest out. You and I were these people not so long ago. Whispering girls, mischievous boys, proud parents and murmuring extended family. Clergy speaks, musicians strum, and all attention focuses on two, becoming one.




The ceremony is beautiful. Perfect, just like ours was. At the reception we sit together like visiting royalty, guests in a foreign court. Strangers who share our table quickly become like amnesiatic old friends. As the meals are cleared away the music begins.




We come together as this song plays. Our bodies fit together perfectly, and we stare unashamed into each other's eyes as we move. There is so much love in your eyes. Do you know how completely you have me? Our unborn child floats inside of you as we sway. The last time we danced to this song was at someone else's reception - That time you were carrying our first. The love was the same. The coupling of our bodies was the same. This dance is a continuation, part of a much larger dance that we started back when we were the bride and groom.




I look deeper into your eyes. Yes, you do know how completely you have me. I see that love returned. Awash in a sea of humanity we cling to each other, knowing that even after the music stops the dance will continue.

Labels: Babies, Family, fatherhood, Life, Numero_Dos

My friend Johnna had her son on August 14:

"..He squealed in at 4lbs 6.7oz with a whopping height of 17 1/4 inches. His Apgar Scores were 9/9 and he has been able to breathe on his own without any assistance. He was transferred from the NICU to the Continuing Care Nursery in just 3 days. We just need him to stay awake long enough to eat so he can gain weight."

Labels: Babies, Friends, Life