Siglet #2 is due 21 October. We should probably start planning for
that.
How nice of you to remember me on my b-day, Sig! ;)
Siglet #2 is due 21 October. We should probably start planning for
that.
How nice of you to remember me on my b-day, Sig! ;)
Ah, well, now they're telling us they're going to induce if he doesn't show before the 14th (which is my older brother's birthday). For me, I would just like him to stay until about two days after our "one weekend a month" so I can get all of the pay and stupidity caught up with. No one takes over when I'm not there, so October is going to be an interesting month because I intend to take the 10 days of paternity leave that Congress has seen fit to authorize me.
Wow, I've missed a lot, I guess. That'll teach me to take an 80 hr/wk job...
Mazel Tov, Shazaam!
And Sig, I don't believe we've met, but congrats to you, too!
Wow Sig, great news. Wishing you guys an easy and safe birth and friendly nurses at the hospital!
Hey guys, I have a baby. I know it sounds crazy, but I don't think I'm hallucinating. This is SO cool. There's this little person named Joe asleep on my chest even as I type this.
I think I'm in love.
We're still waiting. I'm on leave until next Friday (at which point things start piling up catastrophically), so hopefully he'll make an appearance sooner rather than later.
Anyone ever seen The Iron Giant (1999)? It's a cartoon, but it was the first DVD I ever bought (before I had a player). Quick summary: Amnesiac robot from outer space befriends rural kid while hiding from fearful gov't agent in 1957 America. There's a sequence at the end where the robot thinks the kid has been killed and he turns into a walking engine of destruction. These little tendrils pop out of his shoulders and start shooting beams, and a big armor plate moves up from his chest revealing a massive cannon. He starts stalking down toward the town.
Ian has taken to emulating the robot at various points while watching this movie. At this point, he lifts his shirt (armor) up and tucks it under his chin, then raises his arms to simulate laser tendrils, and starts stalking up and down the living room mechanically. We saw it twice before we caught on to what he was doing; he rarely sits still for movies, so it didn't immediately grab our attention. It is powerfully cute.
Nathan Emry August, born 2308 on Thursday night. 7 lbs, 6 oz, 20". Mommy and baby are fine. Daddy is less of a wreck after four hours of sleep.
My own sister is 36 years old, unmarried, and childless. She wants to get married and have kids, but she also wants to continue acting like she's 21 years old. There are opposing forces at work here.
Ha, there's something to that. Ian had more of a "we shall fight them in the hills, we shall never surrender" sort of vibe going.
We bought a miniDV camera just prior to Ian's birth. It's a Sony (I was drunk) (No, really, I was). We used it for a grand total of about 40 minutes of footage between birth and first birthday, and haven't used it since; he's now almost 3. Last night I finally installed a firewire card in my computer, captured the video, created menus and things using the software, and made a DVD ISO which I then burned and tested on my DVD player before going to bed. This took about two and a half hours--or four times as much as I used the camera in the last three years.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Hc1B7sLRkk
To be honest, I'm not really into newborns. They're just little lumps that don't do much. But it doesn't take all that long until they become fun.