Jennifer and Jason welcomed little Xavier into the world around 9:30P last Thursday. It's just raining babies in the Ellis clan. He's a beautiful little boy. At birth he was bigger than Maggie was at her two month checkup! Anyway,...
Our precious little girl was born on 9/27 at 12:03A. Maggie is 6 pounds and 20 inches long. She has dark curly hair and deep cobalt eyes. She's beautiful. We've been up almost four days straight, labor lasted 37 hours,...
I've all but avoided watching baby delivery shows on Discovery Health. I've heard many expectant mothers talk about how upset they get watching these shows. Debra's watched a few but didn't seem phased. We've watched a few episodes of...
We're starting week 35. Just five weeks to go! Debra is feeling pretty good overall. The baby is growing fast and moving all over the place. Most of her discomfort is from the baby pressing against her spine and various...
I spent the first part of the week (Mon-Wed) in Chicago on business. The weather was perfect. I think the daytime temps were in the mid-60s. Nice change from the 100+ temps we're still having in Phoenix. Fortunately the worksite...
This last week we met with our midwife for the first time. Debra and I have decided to have a home birth. If you hadn't already heard, I'm sure your first reaction might be akin to ARE YOU NUTS?! We...
Well, only nine weeks to go now. The prospect of becoming parents is growing more real by the day. We are so excited......and nervous.......and terrified. Mostly excited. Don't misunderstand. We've had our occasional moments of panic. But I think we...
We have just under 11 weeks until the due date. We've been in overdrive nesting mode, cleaning and reorganizing. I finally got the garage cleaned and ready for all the stuff we need to pack from what will become the...
She made this ultrasound tough, flipping and kicking the whole time. She's healthy and she's big. At 25 weeks she weighs 2.3 pounds. That puts her in the 89th percentile for her age. She's already an overachiever....
As the pregnancy progresses we're getting more and more attention. The outpouring of advice and well-wishes means a great deal to us. I never anticipated how necessary and welcome all of the support would be. The themes of late are...
We just finished our 20th week of pregnancy. Debra's been wearing her new maternity clothes. I also caught her doing the pregnancy waddle for the first time. After feeling the baby move for the first time this week, I feel...
We're in week 21 of the pregnancy and Debra is feeling a lot of movement. Until now the baby has been too small for me to feel any movement from the outside. So Debra and I were sitting on the...
I know, this kind of announcement is usually reserved for when the baby is born, but we wanted to find out ahead of time if we were having a boy or a girl. I was trying to think of another...
I spent most of this week re-vamping the blog. Most of the changes might look minor, but my coding skills are limited so they took me a while. We hope you like the new look. Debra hasn't felt much like...
We just finished our fifteenth week of pregnancy. Debra seems to have been spared most of the first-trimester nausea, but she's been pretty tired these last few weeks. According to the baby book, the little one is 3-4 inches in...
We haven't updated the blog in a while. With all the wedding and honeymoon activity, the blog was WAY down on our list of To-Dos. We got back from the honeymoon in Nicaragua with plans to update everyone on the...