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New user? Saturday, January 26, 2002
Strong boy!
Cyan has been really nervous lately, all this excitement is too much for her to handle. She had a bit of a meltdown tonight, so we stayed home and played games on pbskids.org and watched Snow White on DVD instead of making the trip to the hospital again where things are strange and anxious.
This afternoon we were at the hospital though. I gave Mattthias a bath, burped him a couple times, helped him sleep... he's a really strong boy -- he can already pretty much hold his head up on his own and look around!
Cyan gave him some water in a bottle, she thought that was great. As long as her sniffles don't develop into anything more ominous, we'll go back tomorrow to visit again...
In other great news, the Oilers beat the Maple Leafs 4-1 on Hockey Night in Canada tonight! Yay! :-)
Goodnight, all.
Friday, January 25, 2002
RE: On the way to the hospital shortly
Dave mentions yesterday was also the birthday of the Macintosh, and wonders if we'll name our kid Mac in honour of that.
I actually thought of Mac the day before yesterday, and brought it up with the family. They didn't think I was serious but I was. Okay, I made a joke about having his name be Irving Mac and you could call him iMac for short, but I really was serious! It's a cool name, and even cooler now that I hear it was also the Mac's birthday.
Not sure he looks like Mac, though. Would make a great nickname though.
Thank you!
Before Cyan and I go to the hospital this morning, we'd like to thank everyone who has sent in congats, good wishes, and cheer. I'd also like to thank everyone who's been giving us name suggestions!
I'll bring the laptop in with me, Cheryl and I can look over the email archive of the conversation together. :-)
Someone mentioned Logan... that was one of my earliest suggestions. I think that name rocks. But I think Cheryl knows it's Wolverine's "real" name and doesn't like it as a result. ;-)
X. M. K. R.
Introducing: Xavier Matthias Kurt Roepcke
Kurt is my Dad's middle name, my Opa's first name. We promised my parents a long time ago Kurt would be his middle name. We couldn't decide between Matthias and Xavier, so we decided to keep both of them. We'll let him decide which he wants to go by once he's old enough to tell us. :-)
I've taken some more pictures, I'll post another one later. Right now I have to read the email in the discussion group and finish replying to the many private emails we've received!
We changed the spelling of Matthias from "ais" to "ias". We debated this last night, my parents were sure "ais" was the traditional spelling. I think they're right, but nowadays it always ends in "ias". Thanks for bringing this to our attention, André!
Update: This picture was taken last night with his Uncle Shane, Cheryl's youngest brother.
Thursday, January 24, 2002
Where to start?
I'm proud and relieved to announce that Cheryl delivered, by swift and tidy C-Section, a 10 pound, 22 inch boy!
When the nurse said, "I think he's 10 pounds", I said, "he's big, but 10 pounds? I don't know about that... I'd say 9.5 pounds." Later on we took him over to the weighing area, and ... 10 pounds, .8 ounces. She was right on the button! :-)
When the specialist felt the baby's head this morning, he told Cheryl there was NO chance of her doing a natural birth, given her history. And that was FINE with us!
Everything went great, baby's perfect, beautiful. And he likes to eat! (he's definitely my son ;-)). Mommy's doing great too, but I had to go later in the evening to take Cyan home. She's been really cranky the last few days, all the nerves bubbling to the top.
I've uploaded pictures from Alex's CF card to my PowerBook, so I'll post a picture later. Right now, I have to call Grandma. :-)
Here's a good one of Cyan holding the baby (we'll announce his name tomorrow (most likely). We have a name picked out pending any sudden flashes of brilliance).
