update 2

11:39 AM - Kate just got her epidural and is about to get her water broken. The tentative estimate for baby arrival is dinnertime.

real time

P.S. Previous post was 10:16 A.M. instead of the listed time.

Hospital update

Hello all. Things are going pretty well at the hospital (I approved that with Kate). Ellorie had some snow trouble in Michigan but is on her way. Kate is going with an epidural, so we are waiting on that. She is VERY tired. Contractions kept her from sleeping at all last night. Thanks for your prayers and support.

test post from the new iPod touch

just a test post from my new iPod touch. We got our new video camera in the mail today. It's so tiny and cool looking! Now we just have to try it out before baby comes.

I'll likely be making a few posts from the hospital with this since it has wireless access, so I'll apologize now for any mispellings in the near future.

No baby yet.

full moon

Numerous people have predicted that I'll have the baby before my due date (11.15!) because of the full moon tonight.

We'll see...but nothing so far!

I'm not sure we've announced the names on the blog yet. Here's something to tide you over until the next post which will hopefully be accompanied by a photo of baby hodges.

Girl: July Elizabeth
Boy: Darren Mathew

-Kate

Listening to christmas music on

Listening to christmas music on our way to church! yay!

the big 6-0! (also, a new dishwasher)

Today is my dad's birthday! He's a sprightly 60 this year.

If you see him, say "Happy Birthday!"


Dennis decided a few weeks ago that we needed a new dishwasher before the baby arrived. Our's was not really cleaning the dishes. So we got on to my dad's VIP program pricing website for Whirlpool and bought a new dishwasher. It's coming today!

Luckily, we have a skilled friend, Greg Bergmann - godfather of baby Hodges - who came over to help Dennis take the old one out last night. He offered to come by this afternoon and help him hook the new one up, too.

Hooray! Such an exciting day!

Now we just need a birth - soon? please!
This sinus infection is sucking the life out of me, and having to be coherent and awake for 9 hours continuously each day (aka working) is just about doing me in.