Hey everyone, Amy and I are working on the announcements right now so they will be out soon. Also, I signed up for a charity ride to raise money for diabetes research. It is June 10 and I am signed up to do 32 miles here in Connecticut. If you feel like helping out you can visit my donation site below. I will also eventually put a link on the right that will also lead to the site.
CLINT'S DONATION SITE
In other news, Everett had a Dr's appointment today and it turns out (like we didn't already know) he is growing like a mad man. After exactly one month he weighs a whopping 9.5 pounds. He has been putting on an ounce and a half a day since his first appointment. The Dr assured us that since he is gaining weight so well we no longer have to wake him up in the middle of the night to feed him, good news for Amy.
I have finally gotten to the changes I wanted to make to this site. You will notice that the video is not embedded in the top of the blog now. It hasn't gone away. There is a new section over on the right called multimedia. It holds a link to all of the videos I have uploaded (there are 3 at time of writing) and there is also a link to pictures. This is nice because now you can view more than just the one video at a time. Also, since the pictures link is public you do not have to sign in to anything and you can view and download high quality pictures. This means that if you want you can put them on a flash drive or CD, take them to Walmart or CVS, and print out copies. The quality is good enough that 4x6 prints will come out nicely.
There is also a link to photos of Clare. Clare is Everett's older cousin, by 5 days.
Another minor change is that every post ever written is no longer on this front page. That will help the page load faster. They haven't gone away either. They are simply in the archives also located over on the right.
Hopefully these new changes will make the site a little easier to navigate and interact with. Always feel free to hit the comment link in any post and give a suggestion, the comments get e-mailed directly to me.
Everett is doing well. He has started to smile once in a while and I got to feed him a bottle last night. He took to it pretty well. Here is a more recent picture of him and I.
Everett is almost a week old. He is doing well and Amy is recovering. He had his first Dr's visit on Friday where he barely cried and the Dr. says he has the strength of a 1-month-old. I guess we are going to have our hands full. He definately recognizes Amy's voice and he is starting to get used to mine. We have had pretty good nights so far, he goes to bed between 9 and 10, wakes up around 2:00 AM to be fed and changed, and then sleeps the rest of the night until around 8 in the morning. The dog loves him and has to be near him all the time. He has met both sets of grandparents now.
Alright, I have gotten some feedback that the video wasn't working so I modified the code and it should be viewable now.
Above the posts you should see a video box with a play button in the middle of it. To view the video you just need to hit the play button and wait for it to load. You may need to hit the button twice.
Amy and Everett are both doing very well. It looks like we will be getting out of the hospital tomorrow morning after the Dr's rounds. It will be nice to get out of here, the hospital is boring and he is sleeping a lot in between eating. It has allowed me time to get the pictures and video out to everyone so I guess that is a good thing.
Thank you to everyone for the comments and well wishes. They are a lot of fun to read while we are here.
Hey everyone, still in the hospital. It is a boy! Everett Frank Miller, born March 19, 2007 at 12:40 PM. He was 7 pounds, 5 ounces and 20 inches long. He is perfect. I will try to get some pictures out as soon as I can.
Amy's sister just delivered a girl! I have a new niece. Her name is Clare and she was born at 1:55 this afternoon in South Carolina. She weighs a healthy 7 pounds, 12 ounces.
Sorry, still not ours. Amy's sister went into labor this morning at 4:00. She was admitted to the hospital and is having the baby soon. We are awaiting news of whether it is a boy or a girl and how big, and how everything went. I will post something as soon as I know it.
Now what would happen if the stroller gets stuck in the mud? Not to worry, I am outfitted with this jeep baby carrier just in case I need to load him in and attempt a walk-out.
Amy had another appointment this morning. Apparently the baby is happy and healthy and just doesn't want to come out of there. There are no signs of labor yet. Amy will have another appointment on the 19th and if he is not out by then we are going into the hospital on the 21st to induce labor. Hopefully he will decide to come on out since the weather has warmed up a bit.
Well we have no news yet to share with everyone. At this point we are playing the waiting game and the last few days have been agonizing. Amy is doing well but starting to hurt a little as the baby is getting bigger and it is wearing on her back. The due date came and went 2 days ago without a rumble. We are hoping for some good news this weekend.
