What does it take to get a pizza in here?

Oatmeal and granola just are not holding down the growling stomachs in labor and delivery. Fortunately, one can pass time between contractions by updating a blog and doing homework. Current stats? 100mg of Fen. to help with the pain and a lot of ice chips. Dilated to 5+, Melissa's feeling drugged. I ask her if it would be alright if I traded in the van for a BMW and she said yes, so she is kind of out of it. Does papa johns deliver?

ITS A...

contraction. and another. and another... and they are finally consistent. After four days of random contractions, trampoline jumping, lots of spicy food, hot tub, hot shower, cold shower, massage, 18 holes of golf, walked curbs, ran yesterday, put in about 10 miles of walking, and none of those stinking wife's tales work. But now the moment is finally here. We're in the hospital, dilated to a four. Left the house somewhere between four and five this morning. The stakes in Vegas are currently 12:1 for bets on girl:boy. Details will be posted, and if we are lucky a picture also, a little bit later. Also, Melissa would prefer to have a day or so to recover before visits or lengthy phone calls, seeing that she only was able to sleep two hours last night. Thanks!

Transformers

So David went to Transformers on the first day, at the first showing. He loved it. Apparently, it totally took him back to his childhood in a massive nostalgic regression. I can guess what he's getting himself for Christmas if it is on DVD. Now, if I can just make sure he resists purchasing the die cast $100-500 models to play with...

mmm... tastes good

Maggie got her mouth washed out with soap (ten licks) for the first time. When we ask her what she thought of it, she responded, "Tastes great" and smiled. Note to self - switch to yucky soaps...

You may feel an itsy-bitsy pinch

David has started summer semester, 9 graduate credits, 8 weeks. Out of a 7 day week, he now is completely busy on 6, during that time our family will increase to 5 . In the meantime the 4 of us spend our 3 meals together and 2 of us will probably suffer 1 massive stress induced brakedown.

Recovery

On Monday, we left the children at some friend's houses and went off on our yearly escape. This year stayed at a four star spa and resort in park city (www.wgparkcity.com), which was awesome. We relaxed, read, went golfing, played games, hung out in the spa, and enjoyed getting treated like royality by the staff. I started reading a book called "Twilight" by Stephanie Meyers. David already finished it and its sequel.

Goals

About three months ago, our little lady set a couple goals: first to stop sucking her fingers and second, to learn to read (Which we considered a third grade level to count). She also choose rewards for meeting those goals. Though she has only earned two suckers out of 90 days, she did accomplish her goal of learning to read. On Saturday she went to pick out her reward of a book. Somewhere she inherited good taste, so the book she picked out was a blue, leather bound triple combination and bible set with her name engraved upon the front in silver lettering. If you give a mouse a cookie... so she also received a powder blue carrying case and scripture markers. Fortunately she does not know about the scripture mastery stickers yet so we did not need to drop fifty bucks on that yet. And here David thought he was going to get away with buying her a little Dr. Seuss book for ten bucks. hehehe. She has been reading about three verses a day since then, without needing help except on words like Zedekiah. Not bad for just turning four a few months ago.

Alfred Hitchcock Movie Idea

If Alfred Hitchcock really wanted to scare parents, he would have made a movie starring our boy. His ability to find random sharp objects in the house and wield them is frightening beyond compare.