Saturday, April 12, 2008

Jackson is for real!

So here he is a few minutes later in the nursery as they weigh and measure him. When Jackson entered this world he was wide awake and had his eyes wide open the whole time for probably twenty minutes.Just to give you the STATS on this hunk of stud, he weighed 12 lbs of solid muscle and measured 2ft 12 inches. (The internet takes off a few pounds.) I know that some of you may not believe me knowing of my solid frame of 140 and 5ft 8 and Jenn's towering stature of 5ft2. However, Mendel doesn't always get it right. Plus I was the one who was there while the weighing and measuring. If you still have a hard time believing what you read on this website then you probably shouldnt use Wikipedia. If you use Wikipedia as a source in most of you school work at least once then you can trust this peer reviewed website....or you can wait for Jenn to give her side of the story.

April showers brings....

Well this time they brought a man cub! Or I guess you could say a cute, darling, precious baby. But I will leave that stuff for when Jenn writes on the blog. Since she is busy I will stick my half of the story. For those that have had the birds or the bees, to avoid all possible legal action I want to clear the record by saying that I know that it wasn't April showers that brings babies but we have to keep this website clean for all of the young 'uns.

I was studying for a test I had on the next day and it was 10:00 PM. I was lacking motivation. And like any good son, Jackson bailed me out! Jenn walked into the office and told me that she had been having contractions for two hours!! We were both a bit surprised since she had been to the doctor only the day before (Tuesday) and she wasn't dilated at all. We called the hospital and they told us to come on in. My first thought was YES! no test tommorow for me and no more studying tonight. Of course this was in my mind and Jenn insisted that I bring my books so that I could study while we wait. "Yeah right, are you kidding me"--in my mind again. "No that's okay I said.

So we get to the hospital at about 11PM and then all the fun begins and JACKSON IS BORN at 2:03 PM the next day (Thursday, April 10th.)

NOTE: As you can see we had to keep the website PG, but be assured, Jackson is ALL man, even regardless of the mandatory hat the hospital gives that has both PINK and BLUE, they didn't have any pure manly blue ones, we will have to change that.

This is him just seconds after traversing the treacherous birth canal. They are cleaning him off in the room right in front of us!

Nesting for rest of us


So dad came down for some real male bonding. What does that mean? One of two things, soccer or working on or around the house. This time it meant the latter. So we painted and prepared a perfect baby pad. (How do you like that alliteration.) Dad was a ton of help and we got a lot done in the one day he was here. Plus it was fun for him to be a part of the preparations and to see the house, I mean town home, I guess you have to have a yard to qualify as owning a house. But to indulge myself we'll say house, or maybe manor.