Those Babies Keep a Comin!

Hello everyone in our wonderful family!
So, as you all now know, there will be a new addition to our clan on September 18th, + or - 4 days, whatever that means...I guess it's never a sure thing.
So, if anyone has any name ideas I'd love to hear them. We are almost settled on Jack, (trying to keep the J names going), but I am having trouble with the girl names. Ella (After Ella Fitzg.) is my fave girl name, but no J in there....Hmmm....
I am still sick a lot, but hopefully that will go away soon. Then the basketball comes! Funny - I have a wedding in June to be in - have to get that dress altered now and NO DRINKING! Then I have my 30th Birthday in June, NO DRINKING! Then one more wedding in October to be in- lose the baby weight and DRINKING! YAY!
So, hope everyone is well and the 2007 predictions look to be right on the money! What were some of the other ones?

Love

Jessica

Babies Babies everywhere!

Haha!!!
I was going to post a while ago but unfortunately I forgot my blogger password and I had to go through this long process of getting my password but well now I'm here.
ANYWAY, while on the topic of babies, I'd LOVE to announce that I changed my first baby diaper with no one else to help me ANDD I also fed him too, with no one to help me.
Wooooo! I was on a roll. And luckily, when i changed him he didn't pee in my face. My mom suggested using a diaper as a shield but I didn't need to use that, thankfully.
Well I hope I get to see Rex sometime soon!
Byebyee

POST POST POST

Hey everyone! I can finally post! Jeremy is a genius...
Rex is so beautiful! I highly reccommend everyone see him when you get the chance.
He has HUGE testes! Very impressive!

Love that pic of mom and dad....Thanks jay.

New York Update - Rex and More (including bad swears)!!!

We had some visitors here the past few days. Katey was here on Thursday (unfortunately we did not take any pictures, but see below!), Judi visited over the weekend and left yesterday and was a big help and a lot of fun, and some of Daphne's family was over on Tuesday. Pictures are below.

Here is Judi and Deb. Mom - I don't want to hear any "static" about the Allan double chin.



Here is a shot of the proud grandma with the boy...



And here are the proud parents apparently performing some kind of surgery on Rex... "it takes a steady hand...." I'm actually not sure what we were doing here - maybe checking his diaper (or as some people insist it's pronounced - "di-a-per").



Lucky for me, I head back to the office on Tuesday ... and maybe even to work! Daphne gets to hang out and eat bonbons and drink gin all day (well, gin now - margaritas in the summer). We're in Western Mass on St. Patrick's Day and the Sunday after - the tentative plan is for yours truly to run the Holyoke 10K (fun!) and to try to see people on Sunday. Easiest for us (and hey - isn't that what matters) would be to go to the Hansens some time on Sunday and if the Waterpeople or others in the vicinity could drop by there (if there is interest), that would work. Let us know... Email me at jmnaylor33@yahoo.com and let me know! I forget how to embed the mailto link into a post. I'll remember.

Since this is a blog, and not exclusively Rex-themed (although your posts are necessary for that to happen!), here are a few other pics of New York, Paris, etc., that we've taken over the past year. Clearly, we are no Emily Hansen (or even John Waterman or Mike Naylor) when it comes to kodachrome excellence, but we hope you enjoy them nonetheless. Take care!

The Shakespeare and Co. bookstore in Paris....



The Big D and J-Dogg in Gay Paree...




I don't know what happened here. I think I asked Katey something about whether she was kissing the Blarney Stone when she went to Ireland. And by Blarney Stone, I think I meant something else....



Here is one of Jessica and her date to her 31st birthday party (oops, I mean 29th - seriously though Jessica, you don't look a day over 32). Thank you, thank you I'll be here all week.... Please tip your bartenders and waitresses. Try the veal.



Finally, a Mike Naylor sighting!!!! Is that a Naylor in your pocket, or are you just happy to f*** me???!!?



Be well Crazy Allans...

12 Days to go....

.... Until I go back to work. Bummer, although I am very lucky to be able to take 4 weeks off so we can take cool pictures of Rex like this:



And this:



And even though it isn't Rex, this:



Thought you'd like that one. We're digging out, just a bit, from the "snowstorm" (ha!) we got yesterday. All three inches. Katey is coming by a bit later today to see the boy. We'll get some good intra-family pics then (that almost sounds dirty).

Mom (Judi) is going to be in town this weekend and the Hansens are visiting next Saturday (right?) We're getting visitors from the "other side" of the family on the 20th (Daphne's mom and sister, aunt Betsy, cousin Lauren and Lauren's partner Kai) and the 25th (Daphne's dad and Gail, or as they refer to themseleves on all correspondence to us "Don & Gail").

Hope all of you Crazy Allans are doing well. Let me know if you have any questions about how to post on the blog (I know Molly knows how it works). If you want to leave a comment, just click the link below that says "0 comments").

Peace, Out.

Rex is Here!!!

So all of you know by now that Rex Avery Naylor was born on January 30 at 5:35 p.m. He weighed 7 lbs and 8 oz when he came "down the chute". Here is one of the first pictures our doula took of him with our digital camera:



Like most of us, with the possible exceptions of Keith Richards, Jerry Garcia and Grizzly Adams, he looks much better all cleaned up. So:



For the backstory, Daphne woke up around 4 on Tuesday having some contractions, but went back to bed. She got up at 5 when they were more serious and stayed up from there. I woke up at 7 and she told me that they felt pretty strong. She had some water so she wouldn't dehydrate. At 8 we called our midwife practice (we used midwives rather than an OB). They told us it sounded like early labor and to relax, rest, maybe go for a walk. I went into work to finish up a couple of things and planned to be home by noon for a long labor (because they say the first ones are the long ones).

I called Daphne at 9:30 and again at 10:30. At 10:30 she told me I had to come home. I got home at 11 and started timing contractions. Immediately it was clear that the baby wasn't waiting long. They were one minute long, three minutes apart for the hour I timed them. We called our doula and midwives and they told us to come to the hospital.

We got to the hospital at 1 and Daphne was already in active labor. The birth center at Roosevelt/St. Luke's hospital has a tub in each room, so Daphne got into that and progressed through the hardest part of the first stage of labor - transition. Even this progressed quickly and suddenly Daphne was pushing Rex out. All of the women in the room were supportive. I was kind of like a coat rack, a nice thing to have, but one you don't really notice unless you don't have one to hang your coat on and are left throwing it on the floor.

Anyway..... the rest is history and since then we're doing great, enjoying Rex, and taking lots of pictures, like this:



this:

and this:

So that's the update. We will be in Western Mass St. Patrick's Day weekend for the Holyoke 10k (I'm going to try to run it although I think Daphne wil lose her pregnancy weight before I lose my "sympathy" a/k/a french fry and pizza weight, so we'll see). Hopefully we'll be able to see most of you guys in Western Mass then. Otherwise, we're here in the 'hood. Local folks like Katey and Jessica are welcome pretty much any time and if anyone else wants go come to NYC, give us a call.

That's all, folks...