I didn’t realize how long it had been since my last post.  We’ve had a lot going on around here and I haven’t been able to share it with you all.  Well, the in-laws were in town for 2 weeks, we celebrated Ty’s 5 week birthday and I had to do some daddy handy man stuff.  I’m one of those do it yourselfers.  I absolutely love doing little house projects, so within the past two weeks, I have installed a new ceiling fan and a new garage door opener.  Unfortunately both of these projects were out of necessity and installing a garage door opener in 105 degree Oklahoma heat...

While Lindsay was still pregnant a good friend of mine gave me some advice. He said “don’t skimp on the baby monitor”.  He let me know about how he and his wife had purchased a cheap one.  He said that all it seemed to do was make buzzing noises that were caused from cell phone interference.  So I decided I would take it upon myself to make sure that we got a good monitor.  I thought about how Lindsay would be picking out all of the colors for the room and the baby bed but the baby monitor is a guy’s purchase.  It’s kind of like buying the new flat screen tv.  I...

So, Ty had his 3 week old birthday yesterday. We didn’t have a celebration but it’s hard not to look back at all that we’ve learned over the past three weeks. One of the things I continue to realize is that we’re all learning together. So let’s recap some of the lessons from the past three weeks. Changing little boys diapers without getting soaked can be a challenging task.  I don’t care how many times I heard it before he was born.  ”You better be prepared so you don’t get sprayed when you change his diaper”. I always think I will be fast...

One Long Day After one of the longest days of my life, I finally got to meet my son.  Lindsay  and I arrived at the hospital at 7:30 am in the morning.  We were both excited and a little nervous, not knowing what the day would  bring.  After settling into our delivery room around 8:00am they began to induce labor.  I tried to get comfortable and relax but the anticipation was overwhelming.  Lindsay was at ease for most of the day, the contractions didn’t really get painful until almost 1:00pm and by 3:00pm she had gotten her epidural.  That’s the good news, the bad news is that...