Just some fun pics

This is how I look everytime I try to sit up. You don't realize how much you need stomach muscles for EVERYTHING!

















I love this picture. Liam is so proud of how big he is. Mom is happy cause she is on percocet and Owen is not so sure

Just a few flowers from friends to make the dungeon room seem liveable.

Brunette

 

Before all this hair falls out and he turns blonde, I wanted to have some proof that I had a dark haired baby. It's already getting lighter :( But I doubt will ever be as light as big brothers!

One Final Picture

I can't believe how fast that week went. Thanks Dad and Corinne! We love you

Proud Papa

 

My dad and Corinne were the first "troops" to arrive and help for the big day. Here is my Dad so proud to be a grandpa of 7 Grandchildren now! The boys are now pulling ahead of the girls in numbers. Come on Rick and Saysa bring us another girl. Only Y chromosomes here.

 

Here is a pic of Corinne. Kinda her "first" Grandbaby since she and my dad got married. He loves her already.

A Video is worth a thousand pictures

Here are a couple of short snippets of Owen's first few minutes of life. Remember the sound of his screaming the next time you wake up at 2 a.m. It will bond you with us because it's likely what we are hearing at that exact moment.



And here is the big moment where we learned Owen's size. I have really never understood the importance of weight with birth, but it's like the big piece of info that everyone wants to know. So you spend the first day or two of you life getting you weight broadcasted, then try to divert anyone knowing that information for the rest of your life. Sometimes I feel like I am telling a story about a fish I caught "That's right, 8 pounds 2 ounces, and 21 inches long to boot. With a profile like that I would be crazy to throw him back."

Welcome Owen to the World

We'll after 9 months and a whole bottle of Tums taken for heartburn our little one has finally graced us with his arrival. Here are a few pictures of the events with more details to follow, mostly because its now 11:33 on teh east coast I can barely type I am so tired

Here we are getting ready to leave and mostly scared to death. Even though this is our second brith I was even more nervous this time somehow, and I am not even the one having my belly cut open to yank a wiggling baby boy



So we got Jen all wrapped up after the spinal was done by one of my favorite attendings. This picture was taken just before incision and Jen was as ready as she was going to get. She was gripping my hand pretty tight but it was hard to tell which hand was more sweaty






Well Dr. Thomas got Jen open quickly and before you could count to ten there was a baby head popping out of Jen's abdomen, a head full of dark hair. Soon there was a whole baby out who was crying and screaming at us for disturbing his peaceful slumber.



Well after he was out they put him on the table and got him all cleaned up so he could be presentable on his birthday. They wiped him down and poked him and examined him head to toe and pronouced him medically sound and then they handed him over to me.









Here we are meeting our baby.



More tomorrow. We love you all.

The final Belly shots

Merry Christmas 2007

We had a wonderful Christmas this year. Although we missed our families and all the fun activities that we do together during the Holidays. (and not to mention all the snow Utah got and we didn't. All I ask is if I have to live in a cold climate that there is SNOW on Christmas.)
We had a great time spending it as our little family, and with all our friends out here who have become our family.
Here's to another year and a new addition to the family.

No Coal for us!

Because our families are the best, we actually had a Christmas this year. Being a "doctors wife", still hasn't brought in the "big bucks." So thanks to family who made Christmas 2007 possible. Oh and The big Jolly Fat guy too. As you can see, Liam LOVES animals.

Christmas Eve

Miracles of Miracles, Nate had both Christmas Eve and Day off! There really is a Santa, cause that's what I asked for.
We have the Best neighbors. They too were having a quiet Christmas away from family, so we joined our families and make an awesome Christmas eve feast. I wanted to keep some of our family traditions in effect so I tackled the Poulson family tradtion of homemade orange rolls. I've never made bread from scratch so this was a whole new thing for me. All in all it was a success! They weren't as "pretty" as Marie's, but tasted the same. It was a lot of work and I can see why she only brings the recipe out once a year. Next year will get the presentation down too.
Sam and Liam got to open their gifts from each other and were both very happy with their new toys.

Christmas Greetings from our unborn fetus

So another year has passed, and it is Christmas Eve again. Now, these days I no longer feel that impending sense of wonder on Christmas Eve. Actually, maybe wonder is not the right word. Maybe desperation is more appropriate. You know the feeling. The presents have been sitting under the tree, tauting you for weeks because you have no idea whats in them. Then there is the stuff you have no idea is coming cause Santa has it well hidden. So all of Christmas Eve you had this feeling of urgency, like you had to go to the bathroom but there was no way to do it until (if you were in my family) 7 a.m., not that that meant you didn't go into you parents room every 12.2 seconds starting at about 4:30 asking them is it was time yet. Alas, those years of fantastic desperation are gone.
So what can be done to bring back the magic of christmas, to restore that childish wonder? Our answer appears to be to get out Liam's water soluable finger paint and celebrate this oh so important holiday by smearing christmas greetings in technicolor on my wife's gravid belly





So Merry Christmas to all and to all a little adolescent regression. You can afford a little relapse now and then. We, at least, clearly won't fault you for acting a little like a child this time of year.

Merry Christmas,

Nate, Jen, Liam and new addition yet to be named

Package from Papa and Corinne

We got a great package from my dad and Corinne, filled with wrapped presents and treats. Liams favorite were a pair of gloves that he now has me put on him daily. Our tree which used to have two presents under it is now filled with fun things to open tomorrow. Thanks Dad and Corinne. We love you! XOXO

Our first NorEastern Storm

So we got hit with an Ice storm a few days ago. It left us without power for a few days off and on. It made me re-think my food storage and ways to cook and stay warm. I'm not kidding wherever we go Mother nature takes her anger out on us. But don't worry we have good insurance and live on the second floor so flooding shouldn't be an issue. Nate still had to get to work that morning and had to use his keys to outline the door to get it open and another 30 mins to get the inch thick ice from his window off so he could see enough to drive. I'm glad it's over and happy to have my heat back on.

This is a picture of what Liam's window looked like that morning and what it looked liked after we cleaned it off. Also one of our plants. It is so amazing every leaf, and branch was covered like it was encased in glass click on the picture and it will enlarge it so you can see the detail. really interesting. And another one of our street that you could have ice skated on had I had skates to do so.

Not so Happy Santa

We went to visit Santa and the camera doesn't lie. He didn't want anything to do with him and couldn't get off his lap fast enough! Maybe next year???

Jingle Bells

So Liam has gotten into the Christmas spirit and learned Jingles bells and Frosty the Snowman. No it's not in perfect english but not bad for his first carols.

Liam LOVES the tree. He loves to take the ornaments off and have me put them back on countless times during the day. He also wanted his own "light" like the Christmas tree.

Oh Christmas tree

Not bad for my first time stringing lights, (what a pain!) decorating, and keeping Liam from destroying it in one single swoop.

shake ye booty!

This was Liam's favorite part of the tree hunt.