Grandma Serene. 

John and Katie and their new niece. 

Here I am with Phoebe, although you can't see her too well. 

Happy new mother. 

Here we are recovering. I am doing fine. And oh yeah, Les and Phoebe are doing well too. 

Phoebe again. 

Phoebe. 

Here is our new family. 

Born 12:30 pm on 7/13/05. 

Here is our daughter Phoebe. It is a girl. We just scheduled an ultra sound for Friday to determine sex, but instead, Phoebe decided to come out five weeks early. Phoebe is 4 lbs. 14 ounces. She is tiny, but she is doing very well. There should be no reason why she can't come home in a few days. 

From the clock above my head, it looks like this was taken an hour and a half before the baby was born. 

Here I am laboring. I am coaching from the chair. 

Here Leslie is after good medicine. She is contracting like crazy, but here she labors humanely. 

Leslie's water broke at 12:00 a.m., only 10 minutes after we had gone to sleep. She just made 35 weeks. Here she is before the pain and before the pain relief.

Grandpa Arnold putting carpet in the baby's room and our bedroom. He did the rest of the upstairs last week. It is in the 90s and we have no air. It will get fixed later today, but for now, here is the old man working in the heat. He has his pirate cap on to catch the sweat. Sorry Dad!

This is the baby's room with some clouds. Marla is going to paint some Dr. Seuss landscape on the walls.

Leslie and Henry practicing some more.

Leslie, her sister, her neice, and Henry walking around Yukich field.

Leslie is practicing for August.

So is Henry.

Les and I are painting the baby's room.

Shower

Today we had a surprise shower for Leslie. We didn't have our camera with us, so we will have to post pictures of it once we get them from others. She arrived a little late because she didn't she was going to her own shower. Earlier in the day, we went to the Printers' Row Book Fair. She walked around a lot downtown and was probably tired.

Leslie seemed to be totally surprised and happy. Thank you for the shower.

Les may write something later when Terra leaves and she isn't still teaching. But right now we are super busy.

Here is Les on her first swim as a pregnant woman.

Here I am getting rid of the old carpeting in the nursery. Finally getting started on the nursery.

This was taken at Leslie's cousin's house. We are at a graduation party. Les looks happy.

Sorry we haven't posted in a while. We have been super busy. This is after a walk to the library and then to Les's parents' house.