Ciela arrives

After numerous false attempts, Ciela Parc Hermanson arrived happily and healthily at 1:07 pm this Friday, August 20th.

Judy went into labor about 1:00am. Finally woke me up around 4:00am. We trucked off to the hospital by 8:00am. By 1:00pm we decided to trick the child into arriving by telling her the Cubs were playing an afternoon game and, of course, first pitch was at 1:20. It worked.

Judy was every bit of amazing, doing the whole business without any drugs at all. Insert easy joke about Scott and drug abuse here.

Ciela was nice and pink and possessing a fair amount of hair. She's been nursing steadily for the last few hours. Everything and everyone seems happy and the world seems a little less dreadful.

Thank you to everyone who did so much to help us bring her here. We can never express how..., well, we can't express it.

Thanks,

We'll be home sometime soon, spending a day or two at Clarkson Hospital in Omaha.

Long Live Spike.