Back to work

Today is my first day back at work after two weeks of paternity leave. It's surprisingly nice to be back. I figure that life won't settle into anything resembling a 'routine' until both of us are back at work, so this is the first step.

During two weeks of paternity leave I learned the following:

• I can still function quite well on very little sleep.
• K requires much more sleep than do I.
• Waking up in the wee hours of the night to care for a sweet little baby is really not all that bad.
• Newborn babies are much easier to care for than 17-month old's.
• I have an amazing mother.
• I have amazing in-laws.
• Baby girls tend to wet the back of a diaper, boys the front.
• After two weeks of changing diapers I still feel as though I should cover my eyes when my daughters private parts are exposed.
• I tire of TV quickly and most everything on TV is a total waste of time.
  
• Being "unplugged" or "offline" for two weeks can be quite refreshing.
• I am blessed to have a great wife and two incredible children.

Well, I don't suspect my employer wants to pay me to blog. Time to cross some stuff off my to-do list.

Weclome Isabelle Sage

Isabelle Sage was born at 10:57pm today. She weighed in at a whopping 10 lbs (9 lbs 15.8 ounces, to be exact) and, luckily for mom, the delivery was relatively quick.

Welcome to this world little lady, we are so incredibly lucky to have you in our lives.

Happy Birthday Aidan

Happy birthday little Aidan! I can't believe it has already been a year since your birth. You are simply wonderful and I hope you have a great first birthday.

May you have one hundred more healthy, happy and memorable birthdays.

Rough Day

Yesterday we learned that K's mom has stomach cancer. Obviously, this is not good news and the entire family is in shock and rather scared. She will head back to Ohio in the next few days so she can be at home when the poking and prodding begins.

Christmas 2007 was not what we expected.

Welcome Aidan David

Aidan David was born this morning at 7:19 AM. He was a rather large 9 pounds 5 ounces, and the birthing process was nearly 17 hours long. K was incredible and the little guy is precious beyond words.

Let the parenting begin!

New Gadget

Much to my joyous delight, K gave me the new Treo 700wx for Christmas! I have been wanting it for some time but was never willing to make the investment. (There have been more important things to spend money on these past few months.)

Maybe she got tired of hearing this phrase, "I wish I had the Treo so I wouldn't have to carry around a phone and PDA. I always have my phone with me but forget my PDA half the time."

Hot damn! What a wonderful, and unexpected, gift.

What a Day…

There are no words to describe the day we had today. High, low, scary, emotional, fun, and…strange.

Today I learned or confirmed the following:

1. Nervous doctors are not cool.
2. Nervous doctors make for nervous patients.
3. Advice nurses should never offer the following advice: “you should worry”.
4. Doctors who agree to see you last-minute on a Friday afternoon, and tell you ‘everything looks just fine’, are very cool. Very, very cool.
5. It’s a boy!