Roran and dad made it thru their 1st shopping trip alone! And mom had doubts. :-) I think i even got everything i was supposed to! :-)

Roran and dad made it thru their 1st shopping trip alone! And mom had doubts. :-) I think i even got everything i was supposed

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I can help with the midnight feedings!!!!

Roran took his first bottle yesterday! He actually took right to it and later when Jessica went to feed him had no confusion at all. He is actually doing both now and seems to be doing great with it!

Other than that, Time Warps are still happening. I'm not sure how, but they are. They do seem to be getting shorter though, so that is a good thing. Yesterday we were trying to get to Olympia by noon and didn't end up leaving until 11:30...needless to say we didn't make it by noon.

But it was great seeing family. I'm really hoping that Roran will be able to see more of both sides of our families than what I did. A lot of that was my fault so I'm trying really hard to not make the same mistakes with him that I did for myself. Family is very important to both Jessica and I and we both want family to be a significant part of Roran's life.

On the flip side for me, it is really the only way for him to connect with my mom. I can tell him all the things that I remember about her, but there is an entire family out there that has other memories of her that will help make it more 'real' for him. It will never be as good as the real thing, but that is what I have to work with.

Anyway, here is a picture of me giving Roran his first bottle. Enjoy and have a good day!

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Our baby is snoring already. :-)

Time warps

So Roran has been here for a couple of weeks now (two today actually) and Jess and I have noticed a strange phenomenon around him: Time warps.

It is very strange. As an example, sometime this week (see, time warp, I'm not sure what day it was) we decided we would get out of the house because we haven't been out of it for about 3 or 4 days. We decided we would go to the mall to get some free air conditioning and a little bit of exercise. It was about noon when we decided we would do this and about time for a feeding. So I figured we would make lunch, feed Roran and then be off for a couple of hours.

The next thing we know, it is almost 6pm, time for another feeding and we had just finished lunch. And we hadn't made it out of the house yet. Huh? How did that happen? Are we starring in our own personal version of Groundhog Day?

We have several examples of this, but that is fairly typical. Even when we get everything right, we manage to lose at least a couple of hours. We can't explain it any other way than Roran is a time warp. A small tear in the space time continuum or a miniature Event Horizon.

Strange things are afoot at the Circle K.

Roran Daniel is here!!!

So we have been pretty busy the past couple of months. Roran Daniel was born on July 11th at 5:52pm. He weighed in at 8lbs, 2oz and was 21in long. His noggin was 13.5in around.

Jessica did an awesome job in delivering him. Here is the short version of what happened that day.

Jess started having contractions Friday after her doc visit in which she was told that she was dilated to a 3 and 80% effaced. Me being a good husband didn't really know what that meant, but I did know that her doc put her on immediate bed rest. Because of my AWESOME job, I had to finish training the class I was giving and wait till about 5pm to start heading home. Fun.

Anyway, we spent the rest of the evening finishing up stuff that we thought we would have had a couple of weeks to complete. Once that was done, it was off to bed...for a couple of hours. Jess woke up about 3am with contractions. At about 3:15am, she woke me up and said that her water had broken and her contractions were getting stronger. We started timing them and there wasn't much in the way of consistency with them. They were anywhere from 30 secs to 90 secs long and about 1-6mins apart. After about an hour we called the doc and they said to come in.

Once we got to the hospital we were in triage and were told that she was still at 3cm, but about 95% effaced (I now knew what that meant). After some tests and some stronger contractions, we were moved to our room where we would stay for the next 2 days. The labor was pretty hard on Jess. She passed out a couple of times (not good and very scary) and was throwing up during her contractions and in between. At 8am the doc cam in and said that she was at 5cm and an epidural could be given. By 8:45am that was complete and Jess was doing a lot better. The negative side of this is that the epidural stretched out the labor, but Jess was in a lot better condition for it.

Then at 5:52, Roran Daniel appeared officially. He was beautiful. I had no desire to watch the birth, but somehow I couldn't stop myself. It was amazing, so much so that this is all I am going to say about it because words cannot describe what it is like to see a new life come into this world.

For the rest of the day we had some family stop by and visit, but it was mostly just Jess and I trying to relax and get used to the new little bundle we had now. Whoever said that they don't believe in love at first sight has obviously never had a child. There is nothing that either of us wouldn't do for Roran. He makes my family complete.

My only regret is that my mother will never meet him in person.

One quick side note, then I'm done for today (I have to go hang with the little guy and the wife), I couldn't have done any of this without the support of our family and friends. A special thank you goes to Harmony for being my backup and being an all around great person.

Signing off for now, have fun!

We have been very busy setting up the nursery, this is what we have so far....

The beginnings of the nursery

Our little baby boy is only about 3 months away and we are working on getting the nursery ready. We have ordered all the furniture as well as the bedding, but its about 2 weeks out for delivery so for now, we got the room all painted. We are doing the room in blue and brown so we decided to paint a very light blue base with one shade darker of stripes in various widths to give it some texture. This picture is also staring the top part of Meow Zoom and his glowing eyes... :-)

Our Baby Boy

Today we found out we are having a baby boy. He was very happy to let us all know that he was a boy and was super cooperative and just active enough for the ultrasound tech to get all her measurements to assure us that we are having a healthy baby boy. This video was taken at the end of our ultrasound so he was winding down to take a little nap but still had some activity going on. If you can't tell, the head is on the right side of the screen, he is laying on his back so you see a profile of the face and he pulls his legs up towards his head while also moving his arms. Its only 13 seconds so watch it several times!! Enjoy!

Baby Photos

The kitchen is DONE!!

Knobs and broomsticks

Well there was a broomstick on one of the pictures but the fancy zooming in cut it out :-) All the appliances will be delivered tonight so they should be installed very soon. We are having a minor setback (hopefully only minor) with the granite countertops... they guy's phones seemed to be shut off, not so sure what is going on but anyhow, one way or another we will get the counter tops but until then, no sink. The tile will get finished up soon as well and we should have a brand new kitchen! All the new interior doors were installed today as well. Its starting to feel like a new house all together.

The Cabinets have been installed!!

The tile is being installed

Once the tile is a bit further along and cleaner I will take some pictures of it here. He just got started. Right now it looks like we will be painting this weekend and the cabinets will be installed on Monday and then we are almost there.......

Living Room Ambiance

We now have beautiful lighting in the living room!

I think we are at the half way point...

Today we are 18 days in to the main part of the project- tearing out the kitchen. We now have walls and lights! It makes a huge difference. Right now we are pretty much on track to finish up sometime during the week of the 15th.

Week 1 of demolition

The first week of demolition has been pretty trying on us. Mostly for the fact that we dont have anywhere to cook our food. It's been raining, but we have been cooking outside on the BBQ, and the fridge is in the garage. Not sure how much longer till this is all done, but we are managing!

No more popcorn ceilings!

The first phase of our remodel was actually removing the poporn from the ceiling. It took two weeks total. The first week was the main part of the house, the second week was the last two bedrooms.