So NASA Janet and I went for our 18-week sonogram, hoping to divine the gender of our child. In preparation, we had been told to have the mom-to-be guzzle a can of caffeinated soda just before going in; the idea being that a hyper child would move around, giving the sonogrammist(?!) a better chance of seeing more of the child.

The result was a little disappointing. We found on the monitor a child comfortably balled up in the fetal position with a slightly increased heart rate. The recommendatio… Continue

Our Baby Girl finially decided to come into the world. On April 23rd at 4:38 in the morning, after 22 hours of labor and a C-Section, we have Raelynn with us. I will get some pictures here soon.

My sister's brother in law owns a recording label in New Orleans (don't ask the name, I barely remember his name). When Jennifer goes to buy my son presents she tends to go to shops or stores that are locally owned, she tries to take care of NOLA any which way she can. When @ was still really little she picked up an "Imagination Movers" CD from her brother in law's recording label and sent it along to us. @ was too small to enjoy it at the time, he'… Continue

We diapered @ in cloth diapers (nappys) for about the first 18 months of his life. Well 18 months minus the first 2. When we were in the states, diapers are cheap and everybody and their aunt is giving you diaper coupons, we used disposables. When we got home to Africa, disposables (what we called Arabic diapers, because they came out of the middle east) were about 40$/ package of 30. So we only used those at nights when @ was sleeping a good 6 or 7 hour stretch. We didn't want him waking up at… Continue