Saturday, November 17, 2007

Bathtime!


Bathtime is fun. We like to play the "who can point to the ceiling?" game. He always wins.
We've had 3 or 4 baths so far in his lifetime. That's about even with Daddy.

Tuesday, November 13, 2007

The Afterparty

Susan still looked gorgeous after a very long labor and delivery. How does she do it? Here she is with a lovely afghan created by our family friend, Georgia. This was just the beginning of an all-out giftathon.




Solomon was born in the morning. By early afternoon Beth and Mom were hitting all Columbia baby hotspots in search of treasures for the new tyke and his new mom.





"Right about now Em, your mom and your sister are going overboard." --uttered by Dad while Mom and Beth were out shopping.







The Most Beautiful Baby in the World











Watching the Watchers







Cheers to Hardworking Waiting Room Inhabitants



This is the fam at the waiting station. We drowned our bodies in Starbucks so we could stick it out for the whole evening, twilight, midnight, wee small pre-dawn hours, the whole bit. We remained there, holding down the fort. Suzie and Nathan had lots of activity in the labor/delivery room to keep them awake, what with all the laborious delivering. The true challenge in all of this was reserved for us four soldiers.

The only things being delivered in our region of the medical facility were corny jokes. That's right folks. We had only jokes, crocheting, Jackie Chan flicks, Starbucks, and enormous posters showing grotesque lungs blackened from smoking to keep us awake. (Corny joke deliverers pictured below.)
People ask us how we did it. I tell them I don't know. All I can say is that when something like the birth of a child happens to a family, somewhere deep down inside they find a way to endure that series of inconvenient hardships until the sweet end. Take heart friends. If we can do it, you can too.

Speaking of hardship, this is a good time to mention that for the first entire half of the night, our waiting room's temperature hugged the 55 degree mark on the thermostat. So here is one poor soul, desperately trying to get some zzzzs in her abominable snowman winter coat, earmuffs, and a silk scarf to block out that blinding artificial light.

(Note: Subject of photo was not aware photo was being taken, or she may have tried to look less absurd. Photographer suspect is as of yet unidentified; however, cutting-edge composite technology reveals suspect may look something like this:)

Photos from Em's Camera



Emily here. My laptop died the day after Solomon was born. Today I got it back, fixed, and so now all the photos I took of this wonderful day are back in my hands. And now into yours. I'll spread these out over several blog entries . . .

Thursday, November 1, 2007

The Tummons Grandparents Visit












Email from the Tummons grandparents:
Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2007 9:43 PM
Subject: family pictures (a few)
Here are some more recent photos with a couple left from the hospital. We had a wonderful visit with Susan, Nathan, Solomon and Samson(the dog) over the weekend. We went down Fri. night and came back Sat. (before dark). Everyone is doing fine and it is as wonderful as I've always heard.
(posted by Beth Ann)