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.”
Push-ups
Yes, Ludi can do push-ups. Better than me, too. Keep reading to see a video.
Back from the hospital
All four of us are now back at Renaud Manor in Ferguson. The hospital stay was nice, but now we’re in for the real grind… The baby is eating, sleeping, pooping, and crying all day long. So far Jadzia has been nice with her, and we haven’t seen any huge problems. Hopefully it will stay that way. It’s good I can be home to tackle Jadzia while Yoli tackles the baby.
Click the link below to see one final video we took at the hospital.
And her name is …
Yeah, so we took our time and left folks on the edge of their seats for a bit. But it’s now (almost) official: our newest daughter is Ludivine Mercedes Renaud.
The newest Renaud
Our newest baby has arrived, and she’s a girl!
Right off the top, let me say that she remains nameless for the moment, but we hope to have settled on a name by the end of today.
Here’s her vitals:
- Born July 30, at 2:23 a.m.
- Weighed 7 pounds
- 20.5 inches long
If you click below to continue reading this entry, you’ll be able to watch a short video of the new baby and read the story of our adventure.
Learning to be a big sister
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!).
The phone call
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.
The woodpecker
Almost a week after Jonathan’s visit in March, Yoli shot a little video of the woodpecker across the street from us. This woodpecker drove us insane for a while, waking us up too early each morning with its noisy pecking. She’s shooting the video from far away, but the sound in the video is loud and clear. That might give you an idea of what we were dealing with.
The happy ending of the story (for us) was that the folks who live in that house had the tree cut down, and the woodpecker went elsewhere. We’ve slept better ever since.
Tio Jonny comes to visit
We’ve accumulated a lot of video since late last year that we haven’t gotten around to editing until the last week.
So, I’ll be posting a few short clips that you might find interesting.
The first video is from my brother Jonathan’s visit to our house back in March.
Snow = sled time
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:
