New camera...

So, I've been looking for a decent inexpensive digital camera to get Angel for her classroom. As it is our regular camera is always in her classroom which doesn't make it very easy to take pictures at home. But, we wanted a cheap one because her classroom pictures don't need to be super high quality and then we haven't lost much when a student drops/breaks/misplaces/steals the camera. So, a little while ago I found this camera on my favorite deal a day website www.woot.com for $20:



It's only 3MP and it has High School Musical junk on it but it was also only $20. The real value in the camera is this:



The camera has this awesome magic wand button on the back. When you press it there are a bunch of built in Disney stuff that you can superimpose into your picture.

Always wanted to be seen with Mickey but no cash to make the trip down to Disneyland?



Want the image of a hardened pirate without all the salt water, scurvy, and peg leg?




Want to yell and jump along with the cast of High School Musical? Save yourself all those psychiatrist bills resulting from unfulfilled stupid dreams!




Why spend all that money on real Mickey Mouse ears when you'll only wear them once to take a picture?



Be the super hero you've always wanted to be! (even if you don't know your wife is doing it)



Um... wear a wizard hat! (I couldn't come up with anything better off the top of my head)



So, after all that wonderful Disney, G rated wonderfulness and tomfoolery there is just one unfortunate twist to our story. A day or two after we received our new camera the same deal-a-day website that sold us our High School Musical camera offered this:



The same camera but, with Pirate of the Caribbean with Chinese characters instead of High School Musical on it. And to add insult to injury, not only was this camera infinitely cooler, it was also three dollars cheaper. Boo.

Anyway, here's the out takes and blooper reel of me doing Lincoln's photo shoot.




Now, some of you may be asking "instead of running to the kitchen and bringing a chair into Lincoln's room in order to climb onto the desk, wouldn't it have been easier to just set Lincoln on the floor in order to align the pictures at the proper distance?" My answer to you... yes, that would have been easier...

But, he's cute:

Some portraits

A little while ago we took a trip over to visit uncle Lee and get some good photographs of Lincoln taken. Lee is the one who took our wedding photos and he always does a phenomenal job. Here's a few good ones.










There was no commentary on the last post because I was holding Lincoln in one hand and posting pictures with the other. I don't like typing with one hand. This time there's no commentary on the pictures because I think they speak for themselves. He's a good looking kid.

We've been saving them up...

He's a keeper

This is an outfit I wore as a baby. You can tell it's old because it has a drawstring in the little sweatshirt (SAFETY HAZARD!! I didn't die...).










We got him a little swing. He's pretty content when he's in there but he refuses to go to sleep.










These three are just because he's cute...

Meet Lincoln

We've finally taken some pictures so I guess we can write a post. I don't know if it's because he's mine or because he was past due but I think he skipped the new born phase and went straight to the cute phase (if you disagree keep it to yourself...). He was born 27-Jan-09 at 11:36PM. He was 8lbs 4oz (they said 3oz originally but changed it) and 20" long (that number may be a little conservative as well). He seems to be healthy in every way, already getting top marks on all his tests.



Lincoln is just meeting mom for the first time but, he's more concerned with his fingers...





Check out the awesome Spock toes on his massive feet. Angel's current favorite possession is the footprints pages they made for us in the nursery. It's like his first art project sent home with him and if his feet had been much bigger they would have needed bigger boxes...



This is him just before his first bathing during which he cried more than when they gave him a shot for his immunization. The exact opposite reactions his mother would have given...



This is the hat Aunt Kelsey made for him. Later I'll post some pictures of the amazingly awesome quilt she made for him too. I'm thinking about commissioning some bumper pads (I say commission because that's what you do when you want a good piece or art made and that's what Kelsey makes).






I don't want to go too much into the labor. Angel started having contractions at about 4:00 in the morning. We went to the hospital at about 3:00 in the after noon. Intense back pain, epidurals are worth whatever they charge, pretty quick dilation, followed by lots of pushing. Angel hadn't eaten more than a roll and three bites of pizza all day. This made it really hard for her to have the strength for about 2 and a half hours of pushing. She was a trooper though and eventually, with a little help from a vacuum pump we got Lincoln out at about 11:30pm.

Mom and baby are both doing really well. We came home this afternoon and everybody is happy to be home.

No news is not necessarily good news...

First off, this isn't really bad news per say, at least it isn't really, really bad news. But if you ask Angel, it's really bad news. If anyone is wondering why you haven't heard anything about our baby being born even though his due date was last Friday, it's because he still isn't here... Everyone says everything is looking good and he looks great and Angel seems all ready to go into labor and yet... he waits. By the way, in case you only get news about us through this blog, he's a boy. If all else fails the hospital will let the doctors induce her on Friday so as long as everything goes to plan he should be here sometime between now and Friday. We'll keep you updated (but probably not before he's born...we're kind of like that).