Welcome to the World, Elijah Kennan Warkentien

Amanda and I went home to let the dogs out then went back to the hospital.  Eventually saw Nick.  I stood up, happy to see him but he looked a little out of it and told us that Eli had been born but that after Amy got to hold him he was taken away for […]

Dead Car

My left arm started peeling when I was in Costa Rica, but today my right arm started peeling too. I had a meeting scheduled for this morning, but when I went to start my car I found it dead.  My car has this tendency, when it hasn’t been driven in a while, to somehow let […]

Pregnancy, Week 28

We enter now the seventh month of our first pregnancy.  Milly should now be about two and a half pounds and about sixteen inches long.  She’s getting up there, and it’s showing on Amanda, whose stomach got much larger while I was away in Costa Rica!  Milly should start experiencing two new things this week: […]

Back Home in Wilmington

I slept the last hour or so of the ride home last night, waking up just as we were passing exit 420 (the last exit on I-40, signifying Wilmington).  I woke myself up a couple times when I leaned on the (very sensitive) window button on the door and accidentally rolled down the window.  Michael […]

Pregnancy, Week 27

Even though I’m in Nosara, Costa Rica this week, I want to keep up with what’s going on with my growing baby.  Apparently around now the conventional measurement is no longer crown to rump but head to toe, and Milly should be checking in at about fifteen inches.  So Amanda has a person over a […]