What better to do than lay in the sun on a good morning! That's how we started out Wren's third day of life. River is just now starting to get use to the fact that he has a little brother. We're just now getting use to the fact that we have a second child! As we get used to this new way of life, we will update the blog more.
Well, another little man has entered this world! On October 27th 2011 at 9:20 PM, Wren Outlaw Jenkins was born. 7 pounds, 4 ounces, 19 inches long, and healthy as they come.
Kari was a champ and did great throughout labor. I will let her get into the details here in a couple of days, but man it feels good to be a Daddy of 2 now!
I will be up all night, because here at the birthing center they like to have someone stay awake and watch the baby, and believe me, Kari needs her rest tonight.
I am sure we will be putting up a bunch of pics soon. But until then I will put up some from Kari's phone.
Now that we are almost at 39 weeks, Kari has started walking alot, trying to get our baby moved down. So we have been taking all kinds of jaunts in all kinds of weather.
Today was a great day! It started off sleeping in late. Then a trip to the zoo was in order. After that, a few errands, a healthy hamburger for lunch, then home for a nap. After our short nap (River didn't want to sleep), we headed to our garden for some much needed preparations for winter. Now, at the moment, we are making italian sausage samiches and potatoes soup for dinner. We plan to go to home depot after dinner and get a snack somewhere while we are out enjoying the crisp autumn evening air! A great day indeed!
Tonight we carved pumpkins with the Sam's! A yearly tradition since... well, as long as I can remember being in Nashville. Now that we have children, it adds a whole new level of family fun.
We used to get extremely creative with our designs, our pumpkins looking like cartoon characters or artful masterpieces. Now, as we try and keep three children from playing with the knives or eating the pumpkin guts, the designs have become much simpler and quickly done. Still though, the fun and care are carved right into every pumpkin.
After I got off work today we went to the music molasses festival. River got to have his first funnel cake! He did a better job licking the sugar off of it though. I got to eat the leftovers. We bought some sorghum syrup, because Kari wants to make some soft sorghum cookies after the new baby is here. Kari also met some quilters who tried to convince her to join a quilters guild. I told her she could do it and her "free time"... It was a good time had by all!
