The Thinker This picture is kinda dark, but she was on my lap with her hands up around her chin like that famous statue of the Thinker…so I had Beth get a quick picture. Beth got this picture of Kirstin on my lap last night (Friday) at some point in time. It’s dark outside (you…

So I was going to write some here last night, highlighting the events of the first day home, but then just as I was about to sit and type, the Internet connection started getting strange. Something at the NOC (Network Operations Center) wasn’t functioning properly, so all HTTP (Web) traffic and some other traffic (E-Mail…

Little HomegirlShe had been squirming around so much in the bassinet that she managed to get a little swallowed by her hat. This is probably one of my favorite pictures of the day — she had been a little fussy prior to falling asleep and squirmed into her hat. I then said to someone that…

So we’ve reached the end of day two with little Kirstin around, and it’s all going well. She’s pretty much gotten out of that ‘I just got out of the womb’ look and is also getting used to the big wide world. 🙂 I took several more (good) pictures today and put them up (see…

Attentive Girl Beth was holding her here; she was fairly awake and attentive, so I managed to get a picture of that activity. I’m really not going to linger on this post, but here’s the current ‘title photo’ of the Little Kirstin photoset on Flickr.

So it turns out that shortly after I wrote the last post, Things Started Happening…and by 7:30pm, we were officially in labor and at the hospital. I won’t go into great detail about this event (at least not tonight), but the initial diagnosis was that Beth would be kept overnight to see how things progressed.…