I’m pretty sure that I have called most people by now and everyone should know the news. Andrew Connor was born May 1st, 8:12 in the morning. It was a day sooner then planed so we had to hunker down and pick a name. I was campaigning for Connor pretty hard but Jen really wasn’t too enthused with it for a first name. I figure I got Alex the first time around so Jen gets this one :-).

Yesterday I did manage to spend some down time and update the web site and post some pictures which you can see here. I was going to send out an email to everyone but after going through all my address books that I have with me at the hospital I realize that I don’t have anyones current email so hopefully everyone just checks out the website periodically.

Andrew and Jen are both doing really well though Jen is pretty tired which is to be expected, it was pretty major surgery. I was allowed into the O.R during the procedure but thank goodnes they had a screen up between Jen’s head, which is where I was sitting, and where the action was. (One of the doctors offered to take some pictures which I polietly declined.) As an aside, before the operation started the chief nurse was counting all the supplies they had set up. “One, two, three, four, five, gause strips. One forcepts.” I though “Wow, there doing a pretty thourgh job making sure they are all prepared and everything.” After they were done the nurse was doing the same thing again. It was then I realized that she counted them up the before and after to make sure that they didn’t leave anything inside. Don’t get me wrong, I’m glad they did the before and after count but my initial confidence level was slightly lower.

Alex comes up for a visit everyday and he I think he’s excited about having a little brother. We got him a T-Shirt that says “I’m the Big Brother” which he wore proudly the first day. A couple of weeks back Jen bought a Thomas the Train Engine that we wrapped up and gave to Alex the other day from Andrew as a gift. As Alex was opening it he saw the Thomas label on the box and said, “It’s a Thomas Train! Andrew knows I like Thomas” he told us.

It seems like thinigs are going a little easier then when we had Alex since Andrew is allowed to be in the room with us for feedings and naps. Alex was hooked up to all kinds of machines and wasn’t allowed to leave the nursery so every coule of hours we would have to make the trip down there. Now they just bring Andrew to the room whenever it is feeding time.

We should be heading home on Thursday so hopefully then I’ll be able to send out email to everyone.