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Pictures are awesome DrewDevil, dcasper, ballzack and gharp! Really really cute. (And anyone else I missed, sorry to leave anyone out [img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img])

Do we have a great group of babies here or what? Thanks for making my day you guys.

Hey, did everyone look at Gharp's two boys as they are growing up? Pretty fun. Just pick a kid and then keep clicking the arrow on the right. Great idea Gharp.

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Just wanted to give you all an update. My wife, Katie, is due on the 22nd - or the 25th, depending on who is talking (ultrasound said 22nd, doctor says 25th). We're getting very excited. She's huge - much bigger than with our first, and the doctor says baby is gonna be bigger this time around. Our first was 8 pounds, 4 ounces, and that seemed pretty big ... wonder how big this one will be.

We still don't know if we're having a boy or a girl - she swears it's a boy, and I'm pretty sure it's the opposite. We have a bunch of girls names that we're in love with, but really, we don't have too many boys names picked out. With our first, Maxwell, I don't know, we just really, really liked Max for a boy. And now, we have no clue what to name it if it's a boy. Guess we'll think of something.

Sidenote: My wife is a very kind, mild-mannered and professional woman. However, in the last few months, she's become very unhappy at her place of work (she's an inside sales manager at a major hotel in our area) due to a change in general managers and other co-workers. We were talking on my night off, Monday, about when she thought she was going to go into labor, and she says, "Well, I don't know. But I can tell you where I hope it happens."

To which I reply: "Where's that, honey?"

She says: "At work, obviously. I really hope my water breaks at work."

"But, honey, why the heck would you want it to happen there?!?"

To which she shoots: "So those a-holes have to f-in clean it up. Hope I just GUSH all over my CHAIR!"

UGh. Gross. But I guess that's what 95-degree heat when you're nine months pregnant with a bad boss will do to you.

Anyway, I'll write more in a week or so. Thanks to dcasper for sending me the reminder, asking for an update.

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We had a baby boy, Preston Cole, on July 5th. He was 9lbs2oz.

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Congratulations, Carpmentor. Preston Cole is a great name. Hope he is doing well.

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I'm terrible ... and two weeks late on this. But here goes:

My wife Katie gave birth to a baby boy at 2:05 p.m. Saturday, July 14. We named him Michael John Adrians ... 8 pounds, 9 ounces, 19 inches and very, very healthy.

Quite the relief from our first, Maxwell, as my wife's labor lasted about 14 hours less this time around. The 24-hour period in question, I worked until about 2 a.m. the night before, went to sleep at 4 a.m., and at 6 a.m., my son, Max, was yelling at me to wake up. 'BABY COMING, Daddy! BABY IS COMING! Mama water is brokend. Bathroom ALL WET! Come wake up to go get the baby!!!' [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img] It was so cute.

Didn't go into the hospital until about 10:30 that morning, got into our room at 11:45, and it was all over by a little after 2. Funny story - the nurses had left the room to prepare some things in a different room, leaving just me, my wife, and our doctor - a middle-age British woman. When Katie pushed for the first time and the head started to poke out, the Brit was like, in a thick accent, 'Oh dear. Love, don't push that out yet ... oh dear, just push, you, Jason, goodness, love, grab a towel, put your hand here bloke and, oh dear, nurse! NURSE! NURSE!! ... Oh, brilliant! You have a baby boy!' Seriously, it was that fast, and I helped deliver (have the afterbirth all over my white Adidas T to prove it, too) [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

Anyways, I've been home the last few weeks and go back to work Tuesday. Katie will be home with Max and Michael until after Labor Day.

That's all I got for now ... and if someone can politely walk me through a step-by-step way to post a photo or two, I'd be happy to do that, also.

Michael John Adrians. Another boy ... good stuff. Very, very happy!

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Updated cast, in order of expected appearance
(bold=new/updated):

<font color="purple">08/01/07 - aces_dad (#2, boy)
08/02/07 - kurto (#?, unknown)
08/05/07 - Nelson (#1 &amp; 2, twins, boy &amp; girl)</font>
08/25/07 - phiphika1453 (#2, boy)
08/28/07 - Acehawk74 (#1, boy)
09/29/07 - Mano (#2, boy)[/b]
10/15/07 - TheDudeAbides (#2, unknown)
10/??/07 - Kaj (#1, unknown)
10/31/07 - Zameus (#2, boy)
11/07/07 - olliejen (#2, unknown)
12/11/07 - baggins (#1, unknown)
12/16/07 - Joe Tall (#1, unknown)
01/01/08 - steelcmg (#1, unknown)
01/10/08 - Hopey (#1, unknown)
01/23/08 - C-Dog (#1, unknown)
02/05/08 - acoustix (#1, manatee)

<font color="green"> <u> Welcome to 2+2!</u>
07/14/07 - Yo Adrians! (#2, boy) 8 lbs 9 oz
07/05/07 - carpmentor (#2, boy) 9 lbs 2 oz
06/22/07 - Black Aces 518 (#1, girl) 8 lbs 2 oz
06/17/07 - Mermade (#2, boy) 9 lbs 5.5 oz
06/06/07 - Jeff P (#1, girl) 7 lbs 9 oz
05/22/07 - Uncle_Billy (#1, boy) 10 lbs 9 oz
05/07/07 - krazyace5 (#?, girl) 7 lbs 4 oz
04/26/07 - KennyBanya (#1 &amp; 2,One of each) 6 lbs 0 oz/5 lbs 11 oz
04/27/07 - kevstreet (#1, boy) 8 lbs 3 oz
04/22/07 - DING-DONG YO (#1, girl) 7 lbs, 10 oz - BBV4L Link
04/16/07 - SpeciesFlora (#1, boy) 7 lbs 7 oz
04/13/07 - DesertCat (#2, girl) 8 lbs 9 oz
04/02/07 - Stu Pidasso(#7, boy) 9 lbs 6 oz
03/30/07 - stan1541 (#1, boy) 8 lbs 0 oz
03/29/07 - Ballzack (#1, girl) 8 lbs 14 oz
03/26/07 - Nottom (#2, boy) 6 lbs 15 oz
03/23/07 - CrazyEyez (#2, boy) 8 lbs 13 oz
03/09/07 - Jbrochu (#1, girl) 6 lbs 2 oz
03/09/07 - samjjones (#1, boy) 4 lbs 11 oz
02/27/07 - vetman81 (#1, boy) 6 lbs 6 oz
02/22/07 - Daniel Magix (#2, girl) 8 lbs 1 oz
02/19/07 - WilliamLowe (#1, boy) 7 lbs 15 oz
02/02/07 - moldman (#2, boy) 7 lbs 13 oz
01/28/07 - dcasper70 (#1, girl) 7 lbs 15.5 oz
01/23/07 - MuckerFish (#1, girl) 5 lbs 14 oz
01/22/07 - johnwit (#1, girl) 8 lbs 13 oz
01/11/07 - pauliewalnuts (#1, boy) 2 lbs, 9 oz
01/09/07 - Runner Runner (#3 &amp; 4, boys) 6 lbs. 6 oz./4 lbs. 7 oz.
12/22/06 - gharp (#2, boy) 8 lbs. 4 oz.
12/19/06 - JDVegas5 - (#6, boy) size unknown
11/29/06 - Knight Vision (#3, girl) 8 lbs. 8 oz.
11/04/06 - DrewDevil (#1, boy) 7 lbs. 10 oz.
10/27/06 - dlk9s (#1, girl) 6 lbs. 15 oz.
10/10/06 - ChipWrecked (#2, boy) 7 lbs. 12 oz.
09/30/06 - Rduke55 (#1, boy) 8 lbs. 0 oz.
09/23/06 - JoeU (#2, girl) 5 lbs 2 oz</font>

<font color="blue"><u> In Loving Memory</u>
09/02/06 - poincaraux - Allan Frederick Lerner, 7 lbs. 0.9 oz. </font>

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Yo Adrian, congrats!!!!

Here's your step by step.

1. Download picture from digital camera to computer.
2. Remember which file you saved the picture to.
3. Register an account at &lt;a href="www.photobucket.com " target="_blank"&gt;www.photobucket.com &lt;/a&gt;
4. Click the browse button as shown in the picture below.
http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l1...ntitled-12.jpg

This will open the file directory of your computer. This is when you will need to remember where you put the picture you want. You can either browse your pictures folder or do like i do and save it to your desktop, a very easy place to find it.

6. Hit the upload button. This will upload the picture to your photobucket account. For 5 megapixel or higher pictures it might take a second to upload as that is a large file.

7. We now need to edit the picture down to size so it doesnt stretch the thread and make everyone pissed that they have to scroll sideways to read the thread.

8. Click the edit button as shown below.
http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l1.../untitled2.jpg

This will give you a drop down menu. Click on the "message board" option and this will automatically resize the picture.

Next copy the text in the IMG box. Then paste that into the thread and voila!

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6-month update (I've made everyone else do one....)

We are extremely lucky. Leah has got to be one of the easiest babies in the history of the world. Not a single problem to date (knock on wood). Everything has been so completely perfect that we feel kinda guilty. Like textbook perfect, you name it, she's the poster kid. No joke. I'm terrified that we'll get payback when she hits the terrible two's.

She got on a pretty decent schedule early on. Wife would get up for the 1am feeding, I'd handle the 4am one, and we each got decent sleep. She started sleeping through the occasional night at about 14 weeks, through every night at about 20 weeks.

She only cries when she's tired or hungry, so stick a bottle in her mouth and she'll eat or pass out. Either way, no more crying. For the rest of the time she'll giggle, smile and play with whatever's around. Rarely any fussing at all.

The only real negative is that 2 weeks ago, my wife was diagnosed with a hyperactive thyroid. She had dropped a ton of weight and wasn't herself, super tired and always worn down. As a result, she had to go on medication which forced her to stop breastfeeding. We're glad she was able to do it for 6 months, but the unexpected end of that special time with our daughter was really tough on her emotionally. I got choked up pretty good when she took Leah up for 'the last time' with tears in her eyes. They are both handling it fine now, but those few days were sad.

I've turned into that guy who loves to show people pictures. I used to mock these people, now I see how I have become these people. Fortunately, I realized early that not everyone really cares to see my girl as much as I like to show them. It's tough sometimes, and I still find myself doing it sometimes, but I'm working on it.

You can see my dilemma:
http://img403.imageshack.us/img403/641/benchuz1.jpg

http://img170.imageshack.us/img170/6792/thumbts1.jpg

http://img254.imageshack.us/img254/7010/eyes2iu4.jpg

See, there I go again.... [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

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Dcasper, your kid is gorgeous. Obv. your wife rules the genepool. [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

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congrats all.

wife and i are expecting to take our first run at in vitro in about 3 weeks.

my boys are lazy..and she's got issues too [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

we're now dealing with the possibility of twins and other complications from the IVF; but hopefully I'll be posting here in a month or 6 weeks to 'join the club'

we already have a 2 year old....i'm told that going from 1 kid to 2 kids is just as tough as going from zero kids to 1 kid....i'm nervous!!

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