There is no doubt we have a smart little five-year-old (five as of yesterday, anyway).
From an early age she has shown a love of being read to, and now she has a love of reading and writing for herself. Sometimes her writings require an interpreter since she doesn't use vowels, but still she impresses us frequently.
A few comments from Jadzia about how she enjoyed "Beauty and the Beast," her first show at the Muny:
"I liked when the Beast gave her the library.
"When he turned back into a prince. The fireworks turned him into a prince.
"I liked every song that Belle sang.
"I liked the castle set and I liked how the Beast's costume looked.
"I liked seeing the Beast with the binoculars. He was the same size but he was better to see. I could see him really well."
Jadzia achieved a long-sought goal today: She got a card from the Ferguson Municipal Library.
The requirement for a child to receive a card is that he or she be able to print their own name legibly. Jadzia has been working on her writing on and off for a while now, and she can (oftentimes) write it pretty well.
Today she had to write it three times: Once on paper with a pencil, to prove to the librarian she could do it; another time on the application form; and finally on the card itself. She was very proud.
The first books she checked out for herself: Beauty and the Beast (a long version) and Peter and the Wolf. (She also checked out a book for Ludi about trains)
I like reading aloud. I guess its a sort of performance art, hearkening back to my days as a preschool teacher or as an actor at school.
Most of the books that we read to the girls are easy readers with photos on every page. Oftentimes they are more artwork than story. Jadzia has always been our most voracious reader, and she has slowly been building up her ability to listen.
Last year I read to her a condensed, illustrated version of the Wind in the Willows. She enjoyed it, although after every chapter she would ask "So, what happened?"
Right now we are making our way through Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. This is the real version of the story, not condensed, with a limited number of illustrations. Jadzia really seems to love it, and she also is following the story much better.
The only issue is that Ludi does not quite have Jadzia's patience yet. But she'll come along eventually.
I know it's still a few years off, but I am really looking forward to reading the Hobbit with these girls. (Jadzia occasionally asks me to read little bits from it, but she doesn't totally understand what's going on)
A conversation with Jadzia at breakfast the other day. I was wearing my pajamas:
Jadzia: "Oooh, Daddy, I really like your pants."
Me: "Why, thank you, Jadzia!"
(pause)
Jadzia: "Aren't you going to say anything about me?"
At the end of January we took a trip to the Magic House. It was our first outing somewhere in a while with the girls. They had a blast, but of course it couldn't last long enough for them.
Some recent development milestones:
A couple years ago, one of our neighbors gave us her old Fischer-Price Molly cow, much like the one in the photo above.
We tied some yarn to its neck so Jadzia could pull it around. After a while she began to call the cow her "Lassie" (the dog from the TV show). She would lose and regain interest in it over time.
Recently we watched the Wizard of Oz twice with Jadzia and Ludi. Ludi seems to have been especially captivated by it. She asks me daily (or more than once a day) to recount the story for her. I tell various versions, depending on how much time I feel like spending sitting down and talking.
And lately Ludi has begun taking the cow and calling it "Toto." She, of course, is Dorothy. (Sometimes Josie is the Wicked Witch of the West.)
So Molly the Cow has become a stand-in for famous TV and movie dogs.
Today I decided to try and help the girls make up their own stories and write them down. Here are the first fruits of this labor. The following stories are by Jadzia, with some prodding by me.
Speaking of recipes, Yoli has some recipes she's been saving for almost 20 years. Many of them are hand-written or cut-and-pasted into a little notebook.
Last night she decided to try a recipe that she had wanted to make for a long time. The recipe was written in Portuguese, and it was called "Torta de Chocolate," although it really looked more like a pie than a cake. She had found the recipe on the street back in Bolivia and had always wondered how it might taste. Now was her chance to find out.
(And yes, Yoli knows enough Portuguese to be able to prepare this recipe)
But there are always some monkeys to throw wrenches into things. In this case, the monkeys were named Jadzia, Ludi, and Josie.
All the girls wanted to be in the kitchen watching Yoli as she cooked. Ludi was standing on our step ladder, Jadzia brought in a stepstool from the bathroom, and Josie was just crawling and doing whatever.
When Yoli went to fetch a pan from the basement, Ludi sprang into action. She took Yoli's good vanilla, and poured all of it into the mixture for the torta's filling. The cap fell to the floor, where Josie eagerly picked it up and began licking it. Jadzia the eager spectator didn't bother to call for help.
Suffice it to say that Yoli threw all three out of the kitchen, cleaned the mess, and continued cooking.
I got to taste the torta last night. It was very mousse-pie-like, but the crust was like a very firm cake rather than a pie crust. Very tasty, but it had enough vanilla flavor that it almost had an alcohol taste.
Jadzia has begun inventing recipes that she wants us to try. Here is one she described today, called "Milk pudding":
Water
Canela (cinnamon)
1 egg
Mix them all, then put them in the oven.
Reason #82 I don't want kids to grow up:
In their eyes, my "dancing" is on par with Baryshnikov's.
Reason #139 I want the kids to grow up:
The Terrible Twos have arrived for Ludi.
Beautiful weather left me with no excuse to avoid raking leaves today.
The girls offered their "help" which lasted for a while. Mostly they wanted me to make piles that they could play in.
Ludi was the best helper, probably, grabbing small handfuls and putting them into the yard waste bag. But she's not quite tall enough to reach in, so she would have to pull the bag down.
Jadzia, on the other hand, could grab a nice big clump of leaves, and she was plenty tall. But she wasn't all that interested in working.
(Josie offered moral support, and mostly just enjoyed being outside)
I finished the front yard, but the side yards and back yard remain. I also have 4 ornamental grasses that I need to trim for the winter.
And, as usual, the tree in the front yard is still loaded with leaves. It's going to be a loooong fall.
Here are some photos of Jadzia from our session with Elie.
Here are some photos of the three girls together from our session with Elie.
For nearly eight months I have been laboring on and off to finish (that is: apply stain and polyurethane) a set of bunk beds for the girls. At long last the project reached completion.
I did make a few mistakes during assembly that led to disassembly and reassembly of certain parts (and 2 or 3 broken dowels that had to be drilled out). Also, I almost broke Yoli's foot.
But the finished product looks pretty good in my opinion and the girls have loved it.
Recently, we went to a celebration of the anniversary of "Parents as Teachers" Florissant Civic Center that featured all sorts of fun activities for the girls -- including face-painting.
For her participation in the Ferguson Library's summer reading program, Jadzia received two free tickets to a Cardinals game. Actually she has gotten these tickets for the last few years, but has never been able to use them (or know of their existence). This year we decided she was finally big enough to try sitting through an entire baseball game.
As always, Jadzia was excited about her birthday long before it was anywhere near time for it. One day Yoli brought home a book of different cake designs. Jadzia found a monster cake, and announced that that was what she wanted for her birthday. Her resolve never wavered, and weeks and months later, Yoli made her a monster cake.
Here are some photos of Jadzia, Ludi, and Josie with their friend Claire in their favorite domain: the front yard.
(by which I also mean the neighbor's porch and the neighbor's driveway)
Still playing catch-up here on the blog... Someday all my websites, bunk beds, and projects will be finished and we'll be up to date.
Ah, who am I kidding?
Anyway, here are a few choice pics from our trip to San Antonio.
Nan holds Josie in her living room.
Here at the Renaud Empire, there has been no shortage of stories to tell the world at large. There has been, however, a shortage of time in which to write said stories. So, yet again, I am apologizing for a lack of updates here.
A few days ago we returned from a trip to San Antonio to visit family and relax. It was really wonderful. The weather was hot and dry, although we were thankful to see the parched land receive some rain while we were there. My Nan's pool was loads of fun, and all three of the girls greatly enjoyed it.
Yoli and the girls colored eggs on Easter Eve. They kept it simple, using regular food coloring, rubber bands, and crayons.
The eggs turned out beautifully, but the only problem was the girls wanted to eat them right away!
I am retro-dating this post, since the photos in it took place in the middle of April. Sorry for the long delay.
In this sequence, watch as the girls sit unknowingly on the neighbor's step. Quietly, a giant horse-dog approaches from behind ...
Jadzia loves this video called Baby Ballet, which teaches kids how to do various ballet movements. She takes it fairly seriously. Her nanny recently purchased a genuine ballet outfit with slippers. Jadzia absolutely loves to put it on and dance.
And then happy the next ...
These photos are from a trip to the Botanical Garden.
Pay no attention to the baby behind the curtain!
Yoli and Jadzia are putting together a flower arrangement. It actually has lasted quite a while and is still up on our mantle.
Jadzia now can draw things we actually recognize!
The warming weather has thawed an innate desire within my oldest girls: playing outside.
Now when we get home from a morning spent at the doctor or at church, they immediately run to the little playhouse in our neighbor's driveway. But I have to drag them away crying and screaming because it's nap time.
Jadzia loved doing the advent calendar in December, so after Christmas we bought a magnetic calendar that we change every month. EDIT: So my mom and dad got Jadzia a cool magnetic calendar for Christmas. Every month we change the days and set up the holidays and appointments.
As you can see, Jadzia has set herself an extremely busy schedule in March.
Here's a quick update with some great photos of Josie and the girls. Hope you get a kick out of them!
Jadzia has been waiting all winter for us to get enough snow that she could make a snowman. Finally the moment arrived. She and Ludi came out with me and we began working on a snowman. But the fun didn't last very long.
There have quite a few bits of life that I intended to post about here, but with Christmas and work and girls and babies and everything, I never got around to it. Now I am making up for lost time, and here are some photos we took when we visited the renovated Magic House on New Year's Eve Eve with my friend John. Unfortunately the lines to get in were far longer than we expected them to be. But the girls had a lot of fun once inside (and thankfully it was totally freezing outside).
After a while I took Jadzia and Ludi to meet their new sister, Josie. We told them that Josie had arrived with gifts for them: an apron for Jadzia, and sunglasses for Ludi.
Both girls were very interested in holding Josie and touching her. Ludi especially. Ludi was giving her kisses. But she was also treating Josie more like a doll, repeatedly pushing in her nose and saying "nariz" like she would with the doll she got for Christmas.
A story from Yoli:
A few days ago, the girls were listening to Christmas music, when the song "Happy Holidays" began playing.
Ludi heard the word "happy." She lifted her head and opened her eyes wide and began saying "appy appy appy," which is her way of telling us she wants to sing "Happy, happy" (a Christian preschool song).
Yoli began singing the song and changed the lyrics to include Ludi's name: "Happy, happy, happy happy happy. Happy is my Ludi, my Ludi, Lu Luuuuu..."
Then Jadzia asked Yoli to sing the song with HER name, too. Yoli complied.
"Happy, happy, happy happy happy. Happy is Jadzia, Jadziiiia Marieeeee..."
Jadzia began screaming.
"No, you're doing it wrong! I'm not happy! I'm sad!" she exclaimed. "Sing it with 'sad!'"
Yoli asked "Why are you sad?"
"Because somebody pushed me."
"Who pushed you?"
"I don't know. Somebody!"
Jadzia likes to employ her powers of suggestion throughout the day. Her requests usually run something like this: "I think you can take us to the Whistle Stop for ice cream."
It doesn't matter how many times her dreams are denied. The requests will keep coming. And coming.
Yoli thinks Jadzia is destined for a future career as a lobbyist.
The last few days Jadzia has been getting sick. She's had trouble sleeping, calling us at various times through the night. She isn't really running a fever, but she has a runny nose and a cough, and she isn't herself.
She still seemed excited about going to the FamilyWise service this morning. We thought we'd take her to that, but not take to her regular children's ministry class where she would be handling toys and playing closely with other kids.
But just as we were suiting up to leave, Jadzia decided she no longer wanted to go. So we ended up staying home from church. She spent the next several hours laying on the couch, moving in and out of sleep, listening to Christmas music and Bible readings.
It's always tough to watch the girls be sick. We want them to heal up soon ... and we also want to make sure they don't infect each other or us.
There may be one bright side out of all this, at least for Ludi: She's been totally free the last two days. Free to run around without her older sister bossing her, taking toys from her, pushing her, etc, etc. She seems pretty happy about it, too.
Trying to enjoy the last hurrah of warm fall days. I took the girls to the park again, and we had fun on the swings and the playground. Jadzia even met a new girl. I had to remind her how to introduce herself, because she said "Look, what's that girl doing?" and started yelling "Hey girl, what are you doing?" The girl's name was "Aniya" (not sure of the spelling), but Jadzia needed to be reminded many times to call her by her name. She sure wasn't shy, though. Jadzia immediately began telling her "This is my sister, Ludi" and launched into some fantasy play about making plastic things with wood chips (or something like that).
Ludi lets us know very clearly when she is enjoying some food. Her mouth gapes open wide, her way of saying "shovel in the food, now!" In the photo above she was enjoying apple pie. She really, really, really likes apple pie and would probably never stop eating it if we didn't make her stop (or run out).
Jadzia is not quite so keen on apple pie. But she does love chocolate pie, which is on the menu for today.
Jadzia is very excited because we finally got her some toddler toothpaste. Now she is big just like her mamá and papá, brushing, spitting, and doing everything we do with toothpaste.
This month Yoli has been taking a "fondant and gum paste" class. No, that's not a chemistry course at UMSL … it's a cake-decorating class at Fischer's!
So on Thursdays I've had the girls to myself for an extra two hours.
On Saturdays when Yoli's not working, we like to walk around town. We start off by going to the Ferguson Farmer's Market and picking up some veggies. A lot of times there are food/cooking demos going on, which means free samples. And there's always good music. In this photo, Yoli's telling me not to take the picture because I'm taking it from the wrong angle (the sun is behind them).
People always seem surprised to learn that we don't have cable, high-speed internet access, cell phones or a digital camera. After all, we are a highly computer-literate family, and I am a lover of technology. Well, now you can knock one of those off the list: we got a digital camera. But I wouldn't bet on any of the othe rs changing anytime soon.
Today I was with Jadzia and Ludi at the school, playing on the playground. As things were winding down, I was talking with Jadzia about airplanes, reminding her about our upcoming trip.
"We're going to take TWO airplanes. We'll take one from St. Louis to Miami. Then we'll stay in Miami a few hours. Then we'll take another plane from Miami to BOLIVIA!"
Without missing a beat, Jadzia replied, "No, we're not going to YOUR 'ammy.' We're going to MY 'ammy!' "
Jadzia and I went shopping at Aldi's this morning. As we were bagging our groceries, she saw a kid whose hair was cut into a mohawk. "That's a horse," she said. Thankfully she dropped the subject pretty quickly.
We had a mini-celebration for Ludi's first birthday earlier this week. She turned one on Wednesday.
Unfortunately, late July and so far in August has been a time of hustle and bustle. We were in Houston the two days before Wednesday, staying overnight with our friends the Zanders so that we could do a bunch of paperwork at the Bolivian consulate in that city. Fortunately we completed everything we needed to, and now we are set for our trip to Bolivia at the end of August.
So Wednesday arrived and we knew we wanted to do something for Ludi, since it was her day. We had already settled on a trip to the Whistle Stop, but I thought it would also be fun to go to the Botanical Garden first.
It had been raining, so that scared away a lot people and we got a great parking spot. (This accords well with my "Six Flags Strategy": Plan your trips to Six Flags on rainy days, that way the lines are short and you get to ride the rides more times.)
Jadzia loves to be outside. It makes no difference if it's hot; or if she has eaten; or if she's wearing pajamas; or whether it's raining. Under almost any conditions, Jadzia would rather be outside.
Of the many things we do outside, one of her favorites is to walk up to "the school." This refers to Blessed Teresa of Calcutta, which is just down the street from us.
On Monday and Tuesday, we spent a 1.125-day vacation in St. James, Mo. where we visited my brother Justin and his family. His youngest son Keaton was celebrating birthday Numero Uno.
Today I finally got to play the elusive doubleheader that had been rained out twice before. It was a good day for me personally. I went 3-for-4 with 1 RBI in the two games. But my team, the Roid Ragers, still lost both games. We ended the season unvictorious.
Yoli and the girls came out for the first game. It seemed like they enjoyed it. Jadzia really got into the "picnic" aspect of it. We brought a little food she and Ludi to snack on and a blanket for the girls to sit on. It was nice to be able to come over and say hi to them between innings. Jadzia also got into the spirit of the game, yelling whenever she would hear the players yelling something. (Of course her father was probably one of the biggest yellers on the field)
But out in the field it was hot! The high temperature for the day was 99° according to the Post-Dispatch. Thankfully there were breezes much of the time, and a lot of shade behind the benches. But those same breezes kicked up a lot of dust. I was a muddy mess later in the evening when I hit the showers.
Between games I had to shuttle Yoli and the girls back home to take their naps. I had just enough time to eat a bit of peach pie before heading back to play in Game Two.
All in all I enjoyed the season. I wish it had rained less so that we wouldn't have had such an erratic schedule. I probably would have played better. But I feel like I made a lot of progress in the last few weeks: I ended the season on a 6-for-10 tear (if you count a practice game we played one of the Sundays we got rained out).
Most of all it was fun to hang out with friends, and, gasp, have some physical activity.
I can't believe I just wrote that last phrase.
Hear Jadzia, the world's future music superstar. She belts out the classics, like "Twinkle, Twinkle," and mixes in some of her own new material, like "Mary had a Donkey Kong."
For Father's Day, my daughters got me "The History of the Hobbit," though neither of them probably knew that until after I opened the gift.
The differences between siblings are a source of neverending amazement and bewilderment. Jadzia has been picky for quite some time. But Ludi? She eats almost anything. These days she is eating a ton ... probably a growth spurt.
She can be picky in her own way. If we have oatmeal for her to eat, and we are eating dinner (say, sweet and sour chicken with rice), she won't eat the oatmeal. She wants to share in whatever we're taking off our plates and putting into our mouths.
I have to point out, this fills her mom with joy.
Parades, markets, softball games … It's been an eventful weekend here in the Renaud Empire.
My friend Casey got married Saturday out in Waverly, Illinois. Since it was okay for us to take the girls to the reception, Yoli and I thought we might as well make a whole day trip out of it.
We packed up the girls and set out around 8:40 a.m. Saturday for the distant city of Springfield.
In the last month or so, Jadzia has become an exuberant singer.
We have always been a singing family. We started making up songs for each of the girls when they were born. Yoli and I also both share a long history of working with children at church, so we each have repertoires of Christian children's songs (in English and Spanish respectively).
All this time we sang, but Jadzia never joined in. And then she began singing snippets of "Twinkle,Twinkle" a while back. And before long she was singing the whole song. And suddenly she was singing pretty much every other song she's ever heard in her young life.
We haven't yet shot any video of her singing yet (though we plan to do it soon), but she sings really loud ... especially if she thinks Mamá and Papá are ignoring her.
The exception to this is when "strangers" are around... She kind of clams up until she's had quite a while to warm up again.
Ludi tries a cracker. She doesn't really have the knack of it yet. But she has come to love eating cheerios.
Click the link below for more photos.
Any Calvin & Hobbes fans out there? Some of my favorite storylines in that comic involve Calvin's battles with his babysitter, Rosalyn.
I bring this up because we are fast-approaching a major milestone... For the first time, leaving our girls with a non-family-member babysitter.
It almost goes without saying that I have been looking forward to this for a long time.
I have loved my beautiful baby girls from the day Jadzia first arrived. But I lost a lot of freedom that day. I'll never be like I was before, that's certain. But I am really looking forward to being able to take out Yoli for a date every once in a while.
I'm just hoping my girls don't act like Calvin while we're away.
In recent months, Jadzia has been greatly expanding her speech capacity in English and Spanish.
She does something now which seems unusual (though maybe other folks out there have experienced this, too). She whisper-echoes Yoli and I when we talk.
For example, if I'm reading a page in a book, after I finish the sentence or paragraph, Jadzia will quietly repeat the last word I said (or an interesting word she heard). She does this all the time, whether we are reading or whether I'm giving her a little speech about something.
It's kinda cool. It's as if you can see her brain expanding. :)
A few photos for your enjoyment. This is Jadzia at the San Antonio Stock Show & Rodeo.
Jadzia is speaking so much better these days than she was months ago. She uses far more intelligible words and sentences, though they are often mixtures of Spanish and English.
Here are a few interesting things she is saying (frequently) these days.
Jadzia and Ludi sure are playful. Here's some recent photos showing the girls doing their thing.
The world is winding down from the tumultous but transcendent celebrations that marked International Josh Week. Here in St. Louis, the festivities were more low-key than usual, but all in all they were good.
The morning of International Josh Day, I got my first present: a new waffle iron. We immediately put it to work. My first attempt was okay, but not breath-taking.
The next day, we tried again. This time, Yoli handled the batter. The waffles turned out much better. Since this was Tuesday, I had the day off, and my parents agreed to watch Jadzia and Ludi. This freed Yoli and I to spend an afternoon together. We decided to tour two institutions that are quintessential to St. Louis: the church and the brewery.
We started at the Cathedral Basilica.
Jadzia likes playing with her sister's car seat.
Jadzia really likes to play with her dolls. It took her a while to get into them, but now she acts like a mom (or a big sister, which she is soon to become!).
Part of Jadzia's nightly bedtime routine is to call me at work and talk to me. This video from June is a good example of what she does.
Here's Jadzia eating some buñuelos, not long after our return from Bolivia. We've seen a lot of improvement in her since then. During the trip she was eating primarily yogurt and crackers everyday. This past week, though, she has begun asking us to eat things from our plates. She has eaten some casseroles with chicken and rice, some lentil soup, and other stuff. This is VERY encouraging to us!
We've had several snows this winter, but today was the first time we were able to take Jadzia out for some sledding action. We put some hot tea in a thermos, dressed Jadzia in triple layers, and headed out.
We took her to the place my dad always took us when we were kids: Killer Hill in Florissant.
Since we didn't own a sled, we took our trash can lid. Unfortunately, it didn't work — at all.
So we decided to drive around and buy one. Of course the roads were still treacherous, but we eventually made it to a K-mart and found a nice blue sled. We drove back to Killer Hill and I tested it several times while Yoli fed a hungry Jadzia in the car. It worked very well and much fun ensued.
If you click the image below, you can watch video of us sledding:
I put together a couple short videos from stuff that happened recently. For those of you in San Antonio, we intend to make longer versions of these and other videos and ship them to you on DVDs very soon. (Viewing these movies requires the most recent version of Apple's QuickTime software)
After moving into our house, the first thing we did was have a birthday party for Jadzia. Her grandparents and her cousin and aunt and uncle were able to attend.
When we traveled to San Antonio a few weeks ago, we were very much looking forward to taking Jadzia into the pool with us. Here are a few quick clips of her in action. Please try to ignore the blindingly white dad next to her on the screen.
Here are some assorted pictures of Jadzia and the family...
Jadzia meets the Bolivian Easter bunny. This year the bunny had an aguayo vest and a pan flute!
Jadzia really likes books. She'll sit through a session of reading 6 books and start crying when we finish because she wants to hear more.
Since Yoli is a librarian, she enrolled Jadzia in a summer reading program where she wins a prize after listening to a certain number of books. It didn't take but a week or so for her to win her first prize. :)
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Yes, we finally followed the Bolivian tradition and shaved Jadzia's hair. It took two days.
In the last week or so, Jadzia has begun saying "mmmmmmmmmmaaaaaaaaaammmmmmmmmmmmaaaaaaaaaa".
Obviously, Yoli is very excited about this. :)
A couple weeks ago, we took Jadzia for a second trip to the Target in deep south county to have a family picture taken. Jadzia seems to be a natural in front of the camera, she smiles very easily. We wanted to post a few pictures.
Okay, so Yoli has been playing around with the video camera she got for Christmas. Today was the first time we hooked it up to the Mac and tried to edit some video. I had an idea for one of the clips of Jadzia crying at night. Click the image below to see/hear the movie:
Some family members were surprised at Christmastime when Yoli whipped out Jadzia's brand new passport to show them.
Christmas went well. Jadzia slept through much of it, but she had nice long visits with her grandparents and got to meet her aunt and uncle and baby cousin. She got a few Christmas presents, and undoubtedly her favorites will turn out to be the San Antonio Spurs clothing from our relatives in Texas.
She also got to meet my dad's maternal extended family on Christmas evening. I wasn't able to stay long because of work (hope you enjoyed your Christmas weekend sports sections!) but it sounds like it was a great night.
Well, now that everything is all settled in here at our new "Renaud Family" website, we thought it was past time to post some of the photos we've taken lately. Most of these are of Jadzia, so check 'em out!
Many folks have been politely, yet frequently asking for more photos. So here are some nice ones from Jadzia's first month here in the wide world. Enjoy!
At long last, the other set of baby photos has arrived! Enjoy!!
Sorry it took so long... Things have been crazy! But here's some photos from right after the birth. Tomorrow I'll post photos of Jadzia from the following days (she looks prettier in those).
I'll answer the first question you're asking, which is: are there photos? No. No photos yet, but I'll have them online by Friday afternoon (or earlier if Walgreen's is nice).
Let me give you a little rundown on how things went.
Yoli and I gave birth to a beautiful daughter, Jadzia Marie Renaud earlier today at DePaul Hospital in St. Louis. Jadzia weighed 6 pounds 1 ounce, and she is very hairy with nice black hair. This is exactly what Yoli was hoping for.
The labor went well overall, it was fairly quick, and we are glad it didn't last into the night. The baby arrived at 6:30 p.m.
We are very excited! I don't have photos yet, but I hope to post some in a day or two.
It's taken a while (sorry for the delay!) but I've posted some sonogram pictures of our baby from a while back. Yoli is now 6 months along, so the day is getting closer. Just click the link below to see the photos.
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