So… it’s been awhile. Over 5 months. A few things have happened in that time. I finished residency. We moved to Bend. We lived in a double wide for a couple months. We bought a house and moved again. We flew with Wren to Ohio for a visit. That pretty much sums it up.
We’ve taken a lot of pictures of Wren over the last couple of months and I’ve finally posted them on SenorJason.
June 9, 2012 – In Dad’s Arms
June 9, 2012 – Foot
The countdown to the end of residency continues. After tomorrow, only 2 weeks left. 10 total days of work. The movers come and then I have one month off until starting work again. We’ve been in the process of looking for houses in Bend. It’s hard to do without seeing the places in person, but I think we have a few that could be winners.
The ladies let me go fishing last week and I caught this monster 16-incher. Doug and I saw him in a 1-foot deep creek that was about 5 feet wide. I used an olive woolly bugger that I had tied that morning. It was a good way to end my Utah fishing career (for now).
Not much else is going on here for the time-being. The weather has been pretty awesome. All sun and warm temperatures. Father’s day is coming up this Sunday. I’m looking forward to that. Hopefully gifts will be coming my way 
Lot’s more pictures to come. Maybe this weekend…
June 9, 2012 – Morning Stretch
June 9, 2012 – In Mom’s Hands
June 9, 2012 – Ready to Play
Here are the first of many photos to grace the blog in the coming days. The photo shoot was grueling. I don’t know how people do it for a living. I took the rest of the day off and then started to look through them the following day. I was able to get most of the shots I wanted, but some of them required some burst-mode camera action to keep her still in the frame. It would have been great to have a studio to work in, but we made do with our nightstand lamp and ambient light from the front window. I took about 125 photos and about 35 were keepers. All were taken on the old Canon XT with the 50 mm f/1.8.
My favorites are the black and whites, 3 of which are to the left. A few more will be posted later. The black background was one of my black dress shirts. They were converted to black and white from the RAW image and then photoshop curves was used to push the black. A little bit of sharpening and that was it. About 2 minutes per photo. I was happy with the results. Not sure how they will print, but we already sent an order off.
In other news, the grandmas have been a big help. First with my mom for a week and now with Megan’s mom, who will be leaving tomorrow after a week. We’ve had plenty of food and clean laundry as a result. We’ll be on our own again for about 10 days and then we will be bombarded with some aunts. Steph and Katie (possibly Jenna) will make the trek to SLC to do some babysitting. She is able to take a bottle now. Her first is shown here and was on June 7th (for those keeping track of stats at home).
I have my last moonlighting shift tomorrow night, the end of year party on Friday night, and then just 2 weeks of outpatient clinic before the movers come to pack us up and ship us out to Bend.
May 28, 2012 – Calm and Cry
It’s been a long 8 days since my last post. We’ve had a lot of in-town friends visit as well as some family. Megan’s mom and dad arrived on the 5th. Dad for a short trip and mom for a week. AK came out on the 4th and stopped by a couple nights. Lots of photos were taken and will hopefully be posted in the next couple days. We also had a big photo shoot in our dining room yesterday. Wren (and Megan) needed a break mid-way through, but we eventually got through it. Those photos will be posted in a couple days as well.
The pics at left show Wren in 3 out of her 5 activities. Sleeping and feeding are not shown. Pooping is likely occurring in both pics. As with all pics on this site, you can click on them for a larger version.
May 27, 2012 – First Bath at Home
Wren had her first bath at home a couple of days ago. Her umbilical cord scab was still on, so she was stuck getting a sponge bath. She didn’t like it very much. The photo at left is at the end of the bath, when she calmed down. She’s got a great warble when she cries.
Grandma Hughson left today after a week of helping out. Wren and her were able to spend some quality time together while I worked and Megan napped. They went shopping with mom and got some pink outfits. Hopefully, she grows out of her pink phase. We have a couple of days alone before the next group of visitors arrive (Megan’s mom, dad and aunt Karen).
I finished up with my last call of residency yesterday. I have one more day of inpatient wards before moving on to a brief anesthesia rotation to perfect my intubations and finishing up with outpatient hematology/oncology.
May 30, 2012 – Wren working on her abs
Tomorrow will mark Wren’s 1-week birthday. She’s been fairly good about sleeping during the night so far. She’ll sleep for 3 hours at a time pretty consistently (As far as I know… I sleep through most of her crying…). Grandma Hughson will be here for a couple more days and then we’ll have a couple solo days until the next bunch of visitors arrive. Megan’s parents and Aunt Karen (AK) will arrive early next week. Wren has been working on her fitness and likes to keep her legs up in the air when sleeping. I should try this. I’ll try to post something more substantial next week when I am off inpatient wards.
May 26, 2012 – Wren at 1 day old
Wren and Megan were discharged from the hospital 2 days ago after a 36-hour stay. I was given a whole 2 days off for paternity leave, so I went back to work yesterday. We had a fairly sleepless first night at home as Wren felt like staying up all night. Luckily, Megan stayed up with her (for the 4th sleepless night in a row). Grandma Hughson arrived in town yesterday afternoon and stayed up with her last night until about 1 AM while the rest of us slept. She ate once or twice last night, but slept most of the time which was great. Many photos and videos have been taken and will trickle online as time permits.
May 25, 2012 – Getting her IV
May 25, 2012 – Megan and Lori
So the baby came yesterday. It was a bit of a surprise as she was 6 days early. She was being super active Thursday night (there was a big storm that night) which was a little unusual. We went to bed around 10 and Megan started having contractions around 11:30. She thought it was food poisoning, as we both were not feeling well after our pizza dinner. Things continued until 3 AM when Megan had projectiles coming out both ends. She decided to wake me up at that time as she was having contractions every 10 minutes. We stayed at home waiting things out to see if they would continue to progress. About 2 hours later she was having contractions every 3 minutes. We decided it was probably a good time to head to the hospital then.
We arrived at the OB Emergency Care Unit and told the medical assistant that Megan was in labor. She didn’t appear to believe us as she was dragging her feet and not getting us to a room very quickly. We arrived in a triage room around 5:30 AM and got connected to the heart rate monitor and tocometer. It showed that everything was going well and contractions were indeed every 3 minutes. A midwife arrived and asked Megan if she was planning an unmedicated delivery. Megan answered, “that was the plan”. She then checked her out and exclaimed, “Well, you’re doing it. You’re at 8 cm.” Megan let out a “holy shit” and they got us moved over to the labor and delivery suite.
It turned out that our nurse friend Lori was working that night (she had planned on being at the delivery anyway). The labor continued for another 2 hours and then it was time to push. The pushing went on for about 50 minutes and then out she came, like a bullet, startling the midwife. There was a near-instantaneous scream (from Wren) and then she got checked out by the pediatricians (due to meconium in the amniotic fluid). She was quickly returned to mom with an Apgar score of 8 (for color) after 1 minute, which improved to 10 at the 5 minute mark. She was born at 9:30 AM after only 10 hours of labor and no medications. She started eating within minutes. Her weight came to 7 pounds and 14 ounces with a length of 20 inches.
Mom got cleaned up and we moved over to the maternal newborn care unit. There wasn’t much sleep that first night as she seemed to be hungry or needing a diaper change every hour or so. Her first poop was around 4:30 PM. Her first bath about 11 PM that night. There will of course be many more pictures to come. Make sure you click on the sprocket and improve the video quality on the videos at left.
May 6, 2012 – Megan at 37 weeks
I worked on the Corolla for a couple of hours to try and get it in shape in time for the move. I replaced the front motor mount and it has made a huge difference. I can finally drive it the speed limit on the freeway without it feeling like it is going to shake apart. Unfortunately, the axle is still making a “whirring” sound at speed. Will have to get that figured out in the coming weeks… Not sure if it is the driveaxle, wheel bearing, or just that the wheels need truing. I see more car repairs in my future.
May 6, 2012 – Megan at 37 weeks
There’s been lots going on here the last couple of months. Summer has come. It should be 86 degrees today. The men-folk (Dad, Butch and Michael) came to town before and after conquering the Grand Canyon Rim to River to Rim hike as well as exploring southern Utah.
We have found a place to live in Bend. We call it “The Double-Wide”. Because that’s what it is. Pictures will come when we finally move… in 7 weeks. Hopefully, we can find a house to buy before winter comes. I have my work schedule, too, if people are interested.
I took some pics of Megan and her big belly last week as well. Some will be posted in the coming days/weeks. She is still due on the 31st. We’ll soon see if the baby can stick to a schedule.
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