We are the mundane
After a fabulous feast at Lou Malnatti’s (sorry Shannon) we continued to party at my house amidst the destruction/construction of our kitchen. Most of the evening was spent trying to take a picture of the six of us (guess I better learn how to use the delay). Who could ask for a better 48th birthday, right Ron?
Grandpa finally got to hold his grandson. Steve had to go to London before Blake came home and never got to hold him. Here they are together…Steve straight from the airport after an overnight flight, so he looks a little tired. Blake, as you can see, is more concerned with the size of that nose!
…and he looks just like Grandpa! Unfortunately Blake is not coming home with Dawn tonight. She should be discharged about 8 PM, but they want to keep Blake a little longer. The good news is that the respirator was removed yesterday and the IV today. He’s still in the Special Care Unit and is only hooked up to heart, pulse and temperature monitors. Yesterday he had trouble keeping down food, but that seems OK today.
We’ll keep you all posted!
GrandMar
After a pretty rough delivery (3 1/2 hours pushing) Blake Christian was born around 7 PM last night (inducing began at 10:30 the night before) . There were a few complications…waste in the fluids, umbilical cord in a knot, and low heart rate due to the stress of being in the birth canal so long. There were 3 pediatricians present who decided to keep the baby in the Special Care Unit, hopefully just for last night. It’s hard to see his face in the attached picture due to all the tubes, but we think he looks just like Dawn. Hopefully I’ll be able to post a better picture tonight.
Well, Baby Bean just doesn’t want to budge. So, Dawn will be going to the hospital at 10:30 tonight (Wednesday) to be induced. She had an ultra-sound yesterday and the baby appears to be about 9 lbs. That’s big enough to come on out! The process should take 24-36 hours. Hopefully I will be posting his picture tomorrow night (or Friday morning)!
Here’s a picture of Dawn from Sunday (Granddad’s birthday). She looks even bigger (definitely lower) than last week’s picture, don’t you think?!
Sorry this has taken a while to get to all of you. As you are all aware Ron is not the Fall Family Champ and neither am I.
Nick and I played about 4 weeks ago. Since Nick had not played all year, and if you’ve ever seen his game, I figured match play a stroke a hole would be pretty easy for me to retain my title. Well, unfortunatly, I was wrong. I beleive the final was something like 6 and 5. He shot 103. I shot 94. His 103 wasn’t a real indication of how well he shot during the match play. Once he had it won he wasn’t quite as focused as he was on the first 12 holes. He should have broken 100 easy.
Anyway, he has both the shirts and the hat. I have tried unsuccesfully to get another match this year, but Nick is going to school full time and putting in about 25-30 hours a week at IKEA. By the way, his emploeyee discount is 15% if anyone was to take advantage.
Since the weather is changing rapidly I beleive Nick will have this title into 2007. Get your plans together now to challenge him before Battle Creek or we may not have our tournament in a tournament event next year.
Two more days till her due date? What do you think?
