Jill and Don: February 2006

Thursday, February 16, 2006

My First Attempt at Vlogging

It took me a bit, but I found out how to do it. It was really easy. I was suprised at how easy it is to share a video.

Let me know what you think!

Sunday, February 12, 2006

Erick was in our bed Saturday morning. He got pretty hungry. He got out of bed, climbed down the stairs all by himself, got the pantry door open, found some cereal and then proceeded to eat it ... all by himself.

By the time I made it downstairs, he had eaten a few handfuls. I caught him red handed in this picture.

Friday, February 10, 2006

February 10, 1976

I don't remember that Tuesday.

I called Mom and asked her what she remembered of that day. She said it was very cold. She had twisted her ankle in January and her leg and foot were swollen really bad. Dad just took Mom to the hospital and then went right back home. He couldn't have stayed with Mom anyway because it was hospital policy to not let the dad's in the same room. So he went back home and cared for my other brothers and sisters.

Dr. Phoff delivered me. Mom said the labor was going well and then all of the sudden it stopped. The doctor gave her some drugs to get the labor going again. She said that she kept having contractions or whatever after I was born until the drugs wore off.

I weighed over 10 pounds. A few years earlier, some kid at church was born and weighed in over 10 pounds too. Everyone made such a fuss over it. So when I came along, everyone was making a fuss at how big I was when I was born. Mom said the other kid's name was Phillip Pye.

Mom said I didn't leave the house until my blessing day. There was lots of flu going around. I also had an enlarged thymus. I guess this affected my immune system and with the flu going around, Mom was worried I'd catch it. She knew of a couple of babies that had died because they had an enlarged thymus. I can only imagine the worry of a parent over the concern for her baby.

Here's what's happened in the world on February 10. Here's what was going on in 1976.

I share a birthday with George Stephanopoulos & Sheryl Crow.

Here's a digitized color slide of me ... probably a week or so after I was born.