FYI

We will be blessing Molly this Sunday May 2nd. Everyone is invited. Guys who can claim relation to Fred, Sara, or Molly are invited in the circle. If you need directions, meeting times, etc. call Fred. After the blessing we will come to our apartment or the park next to us to eat the food.

fun

On Friday we went out to Center Street Grill for some delicious greasy hamburgers. The place was pretty full and there was no way we were going to get a booth. We ordered our food (very delicious by the way) and went to sit down when we noticed a booth in the back that no one was sitting at. We went and hurriedly snatched it and soon found out the reason it wasn't taken was because it looked like someone had spilled a gallon of a ketchup/mayo/pickle juice mixture on the table, then barfed on it, coughed in its general direction, spat on it, and then spread it all around with a mop you might get from a gas station bathroom closet. Yes it was quite gross. We considered leaving or getting someone to clean it up but they were busy so we figured it would be a while. Then we realized that we were now parents and were prepared to clean up a much nastier mess if we needed to. So out came the wet wipes (it only took 4) and we had a clean table to eat off of. We felt a little like boy scouts whose motto is "be prepared".

We also went fishing at first dam with Molly. She was actually awake for a couple minutes and we caught some fish. It saddens me that it took 27 days before we got to fish together. Oh well there will be many more fishing trips to come.

I did catch a bigger rainbow trout than this minnow sized brown trout but I thought this brown trout was really colorful despite its size. Sara would not let me take him home as a pet or a snack. Very sad.

Oh one more thing I've got to put on here. The easter bunny was very "creative" in his gifts to our home especially this one to Molly....

Yes that's right... the bunny poops as he runs. Who wouldn't want to eat one of those?!

Fun with Molly

Hey, this is Sara. A couple days ago I was home with molly giving her a bath and I decided to have a little fun with her hair and this is the result.




And to my suprise Fred hated it. I dont know why because I couldnt stop laughing everytime I looked at her. It really brightened my day :)

Fred also got a shoot of molly smiling. Which is amazing because her smile leaves so fast, Its really cute though.

baby lessons

The past 3 weeks we have learned a lot about raising Molly as well as attempting to teach Molly some extremely important lessons. First thing we learned and have been force to relearn time and time again is that babies are supposed to sleep 16-20 hours per day. Somehow we misconstrued this statement to mean "babies sleep all day". That is incorrect as a 1st grade mathematician can verify. What that statement really means is "babies are awake 4-8 hours a day (and they WILL get it). So if you were to come by our house around 3AM you might think we are throwing a party because the lights are on, the TV is on, Molly is awake, and so are Mom and Dad. We've been trying to keep her up more in the day to reduce the duration of these "parties". Those of you on facebook may have noticed that Sara will occasionally post around 3 or 4 am - enough said.

Second lesson learned is that Molly loves sleeping on us. Gotta admit, we kinda like it too as the pictures hint at. And don't be alarmed by the scariness of Fred's face. He is NOT dead!





We have taken Molly for walks to willow park zoo, the park, and on campus. She slept through the whole thing. She may not even know she's ever been outside! Last Saturday Heidi came up with Logan to see us and we went to willow park. That was fun. Molly slept right through it and Logan was awake. However we learned tha willow park is not much to see. The animals there consisted of about a million ducks, peacocks, pheasants, lame eagles, and a coyote or two. Pretty much it was just a bird zoo and a couple other animals that look like they just walked in and were adopted by the zoo. The monkeys were not out yet.



We also took Molly for her first day (of many to come) fishing! We would have taken pictures but we didn't catch any and Molly slept right through it

And now to the good stuff - pictures of Molly!

HAPPY EASTER!

Details as promised

I guess its about time to release the previously undisclosed details of the birth experience. Saturday morning (27th) 10AM Sara started having contractions about every half hour and got progressively more intense throughout the day. We went for a walk, to the park, played frisbee, and tried to relax a little. At 10pm they were getting really heavy but still 15-20 minutes apart. We needed to pass some time so we started a new game of Super mario and cranked away. My job was to record how often and how long the contractions started. To the average bypasser it would seem like a funny sight. We'd play nintendo fiercely for 20 minutes til Sara started a contraction. Then I'd write down the time and time the length of the contraction. At the end of the contraction we'd hit the start button and continue fiercely playing mario til the next one. At about 3AM we were really tired and thought we would try to sleep - what a joke! Got up and continued playing Mario. We called the hospital and they said to wait til the contractions were 3 minutes apart. I thought the contractions would come pretty regularly. In fact I had hoped to plot the contractions using a sine wave. But alas, it seemed they came in more of a hyperbolic inverse tangent wave which is somewhat difficult to plot. Just looking at my chart here they came at 10, 15, 4, 8, and 12 minutes apart. In the meantime we got so close to beating mario, in fact Bowser was in sight! At about 4:30 they did come in 3 minute intervals to my mathematical joy and Sara's incomprehensible pain. Went to the hospital and she had dilated quite a bit more enough that we could stay. When she got it Sara gained a very strong testimony of the epidural in that she could sleep a little bit. At 7:56 Molly was born after 2 hours of pushing! When she came we both felt immediate relief but moreso on the part of Sara. I definitely gained a new appreciation for my wife and the pain she went through - UNBELIEVABLE! The end.