Alex at the Minnesota State Fair

On Saturday evening, Alex made her first trip to the Minnesota State Fair. In her brief, three hour tour, she checked out the Ag building, visited the Minnesota Territorial Pioneers, and checked out the swine and cattle. I'm not sure if she opened her eyes once. I guess she wasn't all that impressed.

Lots of Photos

The battery for our camera died before Alex's delivery, so we've been piecing together photos from that night and adding new ones all the time. We're putting most of them in our Photobucket account. We posted a link to it in the link section, but here it is for your viewing pleasure.

Check out the photos of the world's cutest baby.

If You Don't Think This Is the Cutest Thing Ever, Part Of You Is Dead Inside

She's Here!!!!

Please join us in welcoming the most beautiful baby ever to grace the planet. Alexis Evelyn Mahon was born on August 17, 2009.

Vital statistics:

• Born at 7:29pm
• Birth weight: 7lbs 4.5oz
• Length: 20.75"
• Head circumference: 13.25"
• Hair: black
• Eyes: gray

Nikki did an incredible job in the delivery. She was induced at about 9:30am on the 17th. The drug used in inducing labor, Pitocin, creates very hard contractions. Despite this, she performed the entire labor and delivery without any pain medications. Everyone was so proud of her.

Ultrasound Update

We went in for an ultrasound yesterday. Nikki and the kid passed all eight tests. I only remember two of them: fluid levels are good and the kid is practicing breathing with her diaphragm. The next step is a Non-Stress Test on Friday. Actually, the next step is more waiting and hoping that we don't have to go to Friday's appointment...

Ultrasound Pictures at 41 weeks

Here we can see an image of the kid's forehead, eyes and nose. She's upside down here and her forearm is covering her face below the nose. Think of Count Dracula and you can picture it.



I don't remember what we're looking at here. Maybe Nikki can comment.

Still waiting...

Our due date was on August 3. Today is August 7. This is not the blog entry where we introduce you to the newest member of our family.

We're certainly not worried, nor all that anxious. We realize that the first kid comes later more often than earlier. But in the weekly appointments leading up to the due date our doctor said several times that he didn't think we'd make it to our due date. So we've been anticipated the kid any day now for more than a week.

We had a regular appointment today and discussed the next couple of weeks with the doctor. We have elected to take it slow and let nature take its course for now. We have an appointment on Monday to have an ultrasound performed to make sure that Nikki and the baby are healthy and fine and check up on the ameiotic fluid and the placenta. All indications are that things are great. On Friday, we have an appointment for the Non Stress Test, which will measure contractions and give us more information on the baby's heart rate.

So, worst case scenario is we get additional pictures of the baby before its born. Best case scenario is the kid is born before Monday.

Thanks to all of the people who are thinking of us and anxious for more news. We just don't have a lot of news to share.