January 2001

Well, let's see.  Did anything significant happen in January?  Well, there was one thing. . .
 
 

We went to Portland last month for Christmas and New Year's--and planned to stay on until the baby arrived.  We had return tickets on January 6th, which seemed safe enough, but Evie decided to sleep in.  After debating whether to rewrite our tickets so we could hang around Portland poking Ara's belly and asking how she felt, we decided to return home on schedule.  We had breakfast with the kids on the morning of the 6th, flew home around noon, and Ara went into the hospital at 6:30 that night.  After twelve hours of labor, including 4 hours of pushing, Evie arrived at 6:21 a.m. on the 7th--one day before my birthday.  She is, hands down, the greatest birthday present I could imagine.
 
 

Here are the  real heroes  of the event.

More photos (ever increasing) can be found at: http://www.chapman.edu/wilkinson/socsci/sociology/Faculty/Babbie/Photos/Evelyn/
 

Oh, by the way,

and

are doing fine.