Happy Birthday Carolyn

Lucky number 7! Can you believe it? She is growing almost as fast as the mountain of debt I'm establishing with Uncle Sam by attending dental school. This birthday has been a little bit of transition for mom and dad. Instead of wanting toys for her birthday, she wanted to have her ears pierced, some lip gloss, and new clothes. She says she feels very beautiful now.

Grandma Fitzgerald has been in town, and was here to celebrate Carolyn's birthday. We had some great cake that mom made, and then opened up some presents afterwards. This coming Friday, we'll be having Carolyn's friends over for a movie party to watch "Cheaper By the Dozen."

Lastly, I've put some pictures up at http://www.cyrusandannie.com of Katie playing in the backyard with a flower. Love ya all!

Little Princess?? Now I Need to Rename the Site!

Well, here he is....Samuel Joseph Javadi! We are very proud parents. He weighs 7lbs 8ozs, measures 19 inches in length, and, well, you can see the rest in this picture. This was taken a little bit after his first bath. He'd only been out of the womb for 30 minutes, and he was pretty active--probably looking for some food. He spent another 30 minutes in the nursery under the heat lamp so we could get him one of those nice Javadi tans, and then he was off to see mom in post-op. He's been eating really well, and sleeping a lot (so mom is getting plenty of rest). I brought Janice and the girls to visit, and everyone had an opportunity to hold the baby. I'll post more pictures tomorrow. I'm just not sure if I'll use this site (which is a little awkward to use when I want to post a lot of pictures) or another site. In either event, I'll make sure to let you all know. And, if I choose another site to host the pictures, I'll leave a clickable link for you to follow to get to the pictures easily.