David Clay was born on Monday evening June 30th!  They decided to go ahead and deliver due to several factors, and actually the timing worked out well with Mark’s work schedule and the holiday weekend.  The c-section went fine, but overall it was more difficult to get through than the one with Jack.  It seems like everything hurt worse than I remember.  The...

I have enjoyed reading a couple of blog discussions today about how one would survive in the case of being suddenly transported back to 1000 AD.  Check them out here and here.  My favorite suggestion so far is that you set up a business, assuming you survive for any period of time, selling boiled water to midwives, apothecaries, etc. promising it will cause fewer...

Only a couple more days until David Bryant Clay’s arrival. Lord willing, all will go well, and we’ll wait until Thursday morning to do the c-section. I had a regular appointment on Friday and my blood pressure was up pretty high, and had it not come down after a couple of hours of observation, I would have gotten stuck in the hospital over the weekend...

Hard at work, trying to figure out how to use a mouse. It’s funny how sometimes in just one month it seems that the old child is gone and a new one has come to take his place- one who is easier to communicate with and is much more fun to spend the day with. Jack has changed so much recently, I hardly recognize him at times. He is managing himself and his...

Have taught Jack to yell “Did you fall in?” under the bathroom door after Daddy has been in there a while.  It’s the small joys of parenting that make it all worth it.