OUR NEXT EXTREME SPORT!!!!

WE CANNOT WAIT TO TRY THIS!!!!!

wingsuit base jumping from Ali on Vimeo.

p.s. Am I getting good at this video embedding or what????

I've always wanted to do some organic gardening, but thought I didn't have the space...

I'm totally inspired!!! (No I will not go to some of the other extremes in this video...

I'm not completely devoid of materialism!)

MaryJo and the WEST WING

Well, all we have to do is make it throughout the night in this room and we get to go home. But, at 10:00 p.m. they tell us to move to the other hallway. That is when things start getting crazy. First of all, every nurse we had was absolutely amazing. We loved them, especially Brandy, the one that helped us through the actual birth. She even stayed a little later on her shift just for us. Well, across the hall, we had Mary Jo. From the very beginning, we kind of new something was different about her, but who cared, we only had to stay the night then we were going home. Around 4:00 a.m. Mary Jo comes in and says she needs to take Jonas for his assessment. January was a little worried about him being off with her, so she went down to check on him. He was OK. But January, being full of hormones just started crying. They asked January if she wanted to roll him back to the room. She just gave a simple nod and rolled him back to our room. So, January fed Jonas and at about 6:00 a.m. Mary Jo came back to take Jonas for another check up. We asked how long he would be gone. She said 1 hour, so we should try to get some sleep. It was still dark out, so that is what we planned to do. No lie 10 minutes later Mary Jo came back in and said that he was fussy. Maybe he was gassy or hungry and that January needed to feed him. January said she just did, but OK. So, Mary Jo handed him to January to feed. January was about to latch him on when she started thinking this baby is heavy. Like I said it was dark, but there was a little bit of light shining in from the cracked door of the bathroom. Then she looked again and thought, this baby doesn't have any hair. Jonas had a lot of hair. Then she thought, this baby is wearing a "star costume". Then I heard her yell out, THIS IS NOT MY BABY. Of, course I was asleep, but I woke right up when I heard that. Mary Jo said,"What?" January said, "This is not my baby". So Mary Jo said, "Oh, OK", and took the baby and just walked out. January told me to go find Jonas. So, I walked right past Mary Jo in the hallway going to look for our child. The nursery is in the other hallway, where we originally were. I told them I was here to see Jonas Jernigan. They said, "Jonas, Jonas, Jonas?" I said, "Is this the only nursery"? They said it was. I was like oh great, our baby is gone. They asked me what his name was again. I said, "Jonas Jernigan". They said, "Oh, he is right here". Apparently they only heard me say Jonas and not Jernigan. WOW, what a scare.
After a few more hours we got to go home. I was so glad. I was going crazy in the hospital.
And that was our experience of Jonas' birth.

So, here's the story...

OK, OK, OK, so it has been a while since we have updated. I will start from our last "real" entry about my (Patrick's) birthday party / Halloween party.

November 3rd, 2:00 a.m., we headed to G-ville because January was having her contractions 5 minutes apart, lasting 1 minute, for 1 hour. That is when they told us to leave, since we have an hour drive. So, we arrive at 3:00 and we were expecting things to go quick and easy. They checked her and she was dialated to 3 cm. They said, they would check back in 1 hour. She made it to 4 cm, so we got to stay. They put us in a very nice room. The couch was very nice and soft, but I will talk about that later. They came in several hours later and she had not changed. Finally, they said that we needed to get this process going, so they did all the stuff they had to do to get it going. I am not going to get too graphic during this entry. I could, but I'm not. Well, contractions start getting pretty bad for January, so she decided it was time to get an epidural. They gave it to her and it only helped one side of her. So, she was feeling terrible pain on half of her body, while the other side was numb. They could not figure out why, so they decided to keep pumping her full of drugs. Nothing seemed to work. Finally they told her to turn over on her other side, since nothing else was working. Well, that did the trick. And with all those other drugs, she felt TERRIFIC. The real funny part was before the drugs, we watched this screen that would show when she was having a contraction. She would be in pretty good pain during these times, but when the contraction was over, she would be OK again. Well, with the drugs in her, we would watch the screen, and she had no idea when the contraction was happening. She was just talking like nothing was going on, while I am watching the screen knowing that she was supposed to be in pain. Well, that was funny to me. I guess you just had to be there.

When we went into this whole pregnancy thing I imagined there being a sheet between Janaury's head and the "whole process". Well, there wasn't. I witnessed everything. It was obvious that I had never really seen the actual process before, though. I watched it in college, but I guess I closed my eyes, because I never saw the up close and personal version. Thankfully the nurse, doctor, and January were nice, because I had some crazy questions during the actual birth. I asked how big his head was, did he have a skull, why was his leg so crooked, and during the actual birth yelling out "O MY GOSH"! Like I said, I was not prepared for what I witnessed. But I made it just fine without passing out and would not change it for anything. O yeah, January did good to.

That night, January was feeding Jonas and she thought he was choking. She picks him up and runs out in the hallway screaming that her baby is choking. They come over to her and tell her that he is OK. Yes, she is a little paranoid. I of course did not know about this until morning time, because that couch was so comfortable. January said that I did not budge. Oh, did I mention that January didn't have any clothes on when she ran out in the hallway. Yeah, that is my wife.