Inspirational message

I found a great poster to hang in the delivery room. I really think it's going to help Heather during labor.

BePrepared.net

Has an mp3 of a baby crying.

Waaaah!

We're going to use it to condition Murphy to the sweet sound of a needy child.

And when I say "Murphy" I really mean "me".


I wonder how Murphy is going to react to the sound of my desperate cries...

Baby Shower Haiku

Paper! Ribbons! Bags!
Big Tub of Bob Armstrong Dip
Bumbo Boppy Bjorn

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The generosity of our friends and family continues to amaze us.

You are the wind beneath our wings. You make us want to fly like an eagle. We're walking on sunshine.

The proof is in the pictures. You can't fake smiles like these....

Hospital Tour

Last night, our childbirth class instructor took us on a tour of the Labor and Delivery floor at Presbyterian Hospital.

Some observations:

• Apparently, pregnant women enjoy being surrounded with hideous wallpaper, because it's everywhere.

• It is very very difficult to steal a baby, so I wouldn't even bother.

• The bed in the labor room is amazingly adjustable. Pressing the right combination of buttons will get you this:


• After delivery, there are different levels of rooms to choose from: semi-private, private, suite and penthouse. The penthouse was designed by Philippe Starck and offers a menu created by Stephen Pyles. It's $50,000 a night.

• The semi-private room that we'll be in has a TV that only plays reruns of Mama's Family and Sabado Gigante. Salisbury steak and green gelatin are the only meal choices.

• Seriously, don't try to steal any babies.

• Everyone seems to know what they're doing, so we've got that going for us.

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Could the first name of our child be five letters long?

Possibly.

It could also be four letters long.

We should really decide.

And what if the ultrasound was wrong and we have to come up with an opposite sex name?

And don't even get us started on middle names.

Or initials.

We've already had to eliminate some GREAT names because the kid would have the initials F.U.C. or K.F.C. or N.B.C. or U.P.C.


We may end up doing some focus group testing of our possible names in a few weeks. We'll let you know how it goes.

-OC, HC, ?C

Breastfeeding class tonight

It's going to be ----------> awesome. And then after class, we're going to dinner either at Hooters or Twin Peaks.

we bought a video camera

soon, we can make movies like this (because babies go right from the hospital to giggling right?) and put them on the youtubes for all to see:

Three little birds

Singing sweet songs
Of melodies pure and true...

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We painted with paint on the wall-area.

Next, we're going to create a portait of Al Gore using whole wheat macaroni.

And hemp.

YEAHAHAHAA!!

Thanks to everyone at latitude who generously showered us with gifts for our unborn child. Like Senator Clinton always says, it takes a village to raise a child. But more importantly, it takes diapers and burp cloths and onesies and blankets and stuffed animals and beer and books and breast pumps and brightly colored plastic things.

So to show our appreciation, we are going to name our baby using the first letter from each latitude employee's name who gave us a gift: Kjabjspmccempt.

Kjabjspmccempt Curiel. I like it.

The pictures I took of the baby shower were terrible. But this is pretty much what it was like----->

beautiful

the weather
the wedding
the bride
the mom-to-be


if you're not going to get married in sonoma county, don't bother inviting us