Wise words from Kurt Vonnegut

"Hello, babies. Welcome to Earth. It's hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It's round and wet and crowded. At the outside, babies, you've got about a hundred years here. There's only one rule that I know of, babies—God damn it, you've got to be kind."

Excellet Football Weekend for a new Daughter.

June dresses as a baby burrito wrapped in a NY Giants t-shirt, turned blanket. We are moments away from cheering a game winning field goal and delighting in the tears of Tony Romo and the Cowboys.

Baby!

June Catherine was born on September 16th at 8.30pm she was 6 lbs 13 ozs. Molly was in labor for about 4 hours. We were only at the hospital for 2 hours before June was born. We have more pictures but they all seem to be on everyone elses cameras! These are good ones for now.

Babycon to the max

We might be going to Babycon-5 tonight.

(Babycon is the opposite of DEFCON, where babycon-5 means OMGWTFBBQ!!1!)

Selfish baby!

No baby yet. Basically the baby is just taking her time, hanging out, mooching, and selfishly not coming out! Molly is due on Thursday and we have an induction scheduled for Friday morning. So we'll have a baby one way or another by the end of the week!

Week 38 Molly Hides from Pictures...Unsuccessfully

BabyCon Scale for work place preparedness

The BabyCon scale for work place preparedness. C.G. emailed this out to our team this morning:

Due to a number of strategic baby arrivals potentially impacting
operations, we are standardizing on a new reporting system free of
subjective ambiguity. We no longer will rely on mushy questions like
"how are you feeling", or "any news". Instead, all baby related
information should be reported in the numerical scale described below.
Modeled after the Defense Condition (or DefCon) levels of nuclear
conflict, the Baby Condition (or BabyCon) levels will allow clear,
unambiguous communication and rapid team response.

BabyCon 1:
No baby or pregnancy. Normal operating conditions.

BabyCon 2:
Positive confirmation of pending child. Also known as pregnancy.

BabyCon 3:
Visible manifestations of BabyCon 2 are no longer concealable.
Typically accompanied by awkward elevator conversations with those not
previously aware of BabyCon 2. At this point all team members should
begin broad based contingency planning. BabyCon 3 is normally marked
by a ceremonial gathering and gifts focused on preparing for the
strategic event.

BabyCon 4:
This is where all final tactical planning should be made. BabyCon 4 is
marked by phrases such as "get this thing out of me" or "I can't get
any bigger". It is essential for all team members to reenforce
plausible deniability at this stage. Standard greetings should be
centered around "wow, you don't look big at all", or "you are
positively glowing". Any reference to actual physical appearance runs
the risk of violent reaction, and can be especially hazardous to the
strategic partner in the baby process.

BabyCon 5:
Show time. Once the flash alert of BabyCon 5 arrives, expectations are
for a strategic communications blackout. At this point the baby
delivery team will be isolated from all other operational personnel.
Assumptions and preparations should be made so that both baby
operations and business operations can continue during this blackout
period. It is likely that the baby delivery team will try to transmit
one brief communication with some vital statistics, but planning
should be in place to accommodate a blackout lasting approximately 2
weeks.

Please forward as necessary.

Waiting

When Chris starts looking for things to buy, like boat shoes, you know it is time to get the show on the road. Every day we wake up and Chris turns to me and says, "why don't you just have the baby already."

I know that we're still 2 weeks from the actual due date, but really, it is time. Not only do we want to meet this little girl, but I'm really finished being pregnant. I was just looking back at some of pictures from the first few weeks of pregnancy and I miss those jeans. I'm excited to not have swollen fingers and ankles and I'd like to attempt running without feeling like I'm going to pee my pants! So there.

Boat Shoes

I thought today that its time to invest in some boat shoes because i need to bulk up on Dad-ish outfits and accessories.

BABY WATCH!

Thats right. Two quote jokes in a row.