Kati

Its been a while since I have posted on here.

I have hit a mid to long term pause on the CHMS project due to my not having enough paid time in the week to get all my other Chapel Hill work done and my having other things to do with my volunteerable time.

I am working on an update for the Central Homeschool Family Ministries site, including some front end design work and more back end functionality improvements. The online web base school class registration system I built for them was one of the first real ASP.NET web applications I ever built and is still the largest programming project I have ever worked on.

I am spending most of my free time with Kati and Kristen these days. Being a dad is great and Kati is growing so fast. I love her so much and feel so blessed.

Three Weeks with Kati and an empty house

Kati has been with us in person for 3 1/2 almost 4 weeks now. What a blessing! Kristen took Kati to a baby shower for Quin from church today. Quin is expecting in either July or August (I am a guy, I'm not good with dates OK :-) never have been) The house feels empty without either of them here, especially with both dogs outside.

Kristen asked me to go get dinner while she was gone, she was feeling like a burger so I think I will grill out. Maybe I'll pick up some steaks as well if they are affordable.

Baby Girl

Our little girl, Kati Elizabeth Rowley was born last Tuesday, May 13th, 2008 at 6:16PM
She weighed 8lbs 3oz and was 20 inches long.

We wanted a home birth but ended up transferring to Wesley near the end because Kristen wasn't pushing hard enough to get that little girl out. (I think she may be stubborn like her parents.) So they put Kristen on some pitocin and about an hour and a half later we had Kati.

We came home Tuesday night around 11pm.