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Howdy folks. Here’s a quick update.

All’s well!

Leo James was born @ 12:37am. He’s 21″ long.

The Missus is tired and snoozing when she can. She says hi. (I’m sure she would.)

Here’s some pictures…

Hey, the Missus is having contractions and they’re regular. The contractions are coming about every seven or eight minutes. Sometimes they’re a little closer, sometimes a little further apart.

We’re ready to head to the hospital. Just waiting for the right time tonight, or tomorrow.

Looked like labor was cranking up last night about 11:30. The Missus had a series of regular contractions for just short of an hour. They were coming every ten minutes. We got up. The Missus started to pack her stuff (Yeah, that crucial hospital over-night bag wasn’t ready till last night.). I packed up my clothes. Two of this, two of that. Then I went to charge the gadget batteries and eat a bowl of Cheerios.

The contractions didn’t so much slack off when the Missus started moving around, but they lost their regularity. She told me this morning that they kept coming all night. So I’m headed off to work right now, but sticking close to the phone. (I was doing that yesterday…)

I thought that I’d delurk for a while to give everyone an update:

My cervix is currently 1-2 centimeters dilated; thick but soft!

Doc seems to think there’s a good chance that something will happen this weekend (or before), but if it doesn’t, that I’m welcome to come in on Tuesday and he’d get the ball rolling.

Phew!

Several weekends ago the family and I went out yardsale shopping. Spotz, the middle child, was so excited he even carried his tin bank with him. He knows yardsales are the place to find the glittery junk he loves. In fact he wanted to buy just about every homemade Christmas ornament he ran across. Homemade Christmas ornaments seem to rival coffee mugs in their ubiquity. Spotz doesn’t appreciate coffee mugs, yet.

We went to only two yardsales that morning. I think it was the poorly advertised official First Saturday for yardsales. There weren’t that many people with junk set up, but amazingly enough we met with success. Read the rest of this entry »