Category Archives: Family

We finally got enough snow in St. Louis for Charlotte to comfortably bury her feet in powder and taste a snowball. This evening, Kelly and I took her up to the roof for a private excursion, and fortunately found the snow unspoiled by footprints. After a small stumble into a drift built up near the [...]

Life right now is pretty much consumed by of work, sleep, and Charlotte, so I’m not even going to pretend I have something new to say. OK, maybe a little: Charlotte’s finally over much of her colicky phase, and we can actually put her down to sleep without swaddling her, so she’s much more fun [...]

Charlotte Anne Stephenson was born today, November 8th, 2007 at 9:12 in the morning. She weighed in at 7 pounds, 15.6 ounces, and is 20 inches long. some more pictures We’re all doing great and hanging out at St. John’s hospital if you’d like to be introduced in person. We won’t even mind interrupting Charlotte’s [...]

We’re off the hospital for induction. When we come back home, we’ll have a daughter! In the meantime, I’ll share shorter updates via twitter.

If you happened upon this site around the time of posting, you’d notice it appears to contain little more than posts on waiting for the birth of my child. This adequately represents the state of my brain as well. We’ve even already had a trip to the hospital and back. Unlike lastnight, I’m going to [...]

This morning we decided to walk a bit for our daily caffeine, and to see if we could help shake Charlotte out. We’re running out of days before the scheduled labor induction, and we’re both already anxious. We just planned on going to Starbucks for energy, but ended up also stopping at infuz to chat [...]

No trick or treat tonight, we’re vegging on the couch at home after a doctor visit where we confirmed a final date for pregnancy. The last ultrasound we had placed the due date for tomorrow, but if we don’t see Charlotte in a week, an induction is scheduled for the 7th. Hopefully Charlotte will treat [...]