Kanyon has been a great blessing so far during his three nights at home. He is so laid back, we have to wake him up to feed him, otherwise he might just sleep through all the feedings.
What has been the greatest thing about bringing him home on Thanksgiving week has been all the football on TV. While we are sitting around the house changing diapers and doing his laundry, we can have football on all the time. The football marathon started on Monday night in the hospital. Since we don't have cable, we don't get to watch Monday Night Football. This week my favorite team, the Denver Broncos, were playing on MNF. So I got to watch them at the hospital before the delivery.
After recovering in the hospital, we came home to football everyday. First all the Thanksgiving Day pro football, including the Cowboys. Next all day after Thanksgiving with college rivalry games and again on Sat. with more college football. Finally today is Sunday, time again for more pro football.
Here is a list of all the games we have watched this weekend:
Denver Broncos v. Tennessee Titans
Detroit Lions v. Green Bay Packers
Dallas Cowboys v. NY Jets
Nebraska v. Colorado
Texas v. Texas A&M
LSU v. Arkansas
Tennessee v. Kentucky
Florida v. Florida State
Kansas v. Missouri
Houston Texans v. Cleveland Browns
Denver Broncos v. Chicago Bears
Philadelphia Eagles v. New England Patriots
I think we have watched so much football that little Kanyon is going to need a game on in the background before he can go to sleep. I just hope he enjoys basketball season as much. Now that the football marathon weekend is over I wonder what he'll be watching as I return to work next week. Kanyon will be home alone with his mother, hopefully not watching too much Oprah.
November 25, 2007
November 23, 2007
Baby Arrives!
After nine months of waiting, Kanyon arrived at 4:30 AM on Tuesday, November 20, 2007 weighing 8 lbs 1.2 oz and 20 ¾ inches long.
We went into the hospital at 8 pm on Monday night and it didn’t take long before the baby decided he was ready to come out. Both baby and mother are doing great! We spent the next two nights in the hospital before we came home on Thanksgiving. What a great Thanksgiving Day!
It was awesome (and unexpected) that we got to take him home in the snow. It was really snowing big flakes as we drove home and carried him up the stairs to our apartment. The snow makes for some great photos. After finally bringing all the stuff in from the car, we were able to settle down and make a Thanksgiving feast, including all the staples. We are now learning all the new tricks about feeding, sleeping, and so many others.
Check out his photos below:
November 18, 2007
Birthday Appointment
The Baby will be here beginning Monday, November 19 at 8:00 PM, but when he actually arrives is up to him. We are still hoping for a delivery before the scheduled induction appointment.
November 14, 2007
Birthday Pick 'em
We returned from our latest doctor's appointment armed with some new information. We were asked to choose the date for our baby's birthday. The doctor recommends that we induce before the baby reaches 40 weeks and told us to talk about which day we would like to go in.
It seems really strange that we get to choose the date. Should we choose a date that is most convenient for all our family? Or one that fits nicely into our schedule? Or the latest possible date and hope the baby come naturally? Or should we choose one that falls on our favorite person from the office baby pool? Or on a date that the person has agreed to share the prize with us?
The decision seems like it should not be left in the hands of humans, but made by the ultimate Father. So we have chosen the latest date the doctor would allow us to choose. We are hoping our Father will choose to take the decision out of our hands and allow the baby to be born before our chosen date.
So if you would like to know, the baby will be born on either Saturday November 17 or on Monday November 19, (we had to leave it open for the hospital only allows 5 inductions per day and we must fit into their schedule) or whenever he decides to come before those dates.
It seems really strange that we get to choose the date. Should we choose a date that is most convenient for all our family? Or one that fits nicely into our schedule? Or the latest possible date and hope the baby come naturally? Or should we choose one that falls on our favorite person from the office baby pool? Or on a date that the person has agreed to share the prize with us?
The decision seems like it should not be left in the hands of humans, but made by the ultimate Father. So we have chosen the latest date the doctor would allow us to choose. We are hoping our Father will choose to take the decision out of our hands and allow the baby to be born before our chosen date.
So if you would like to know, the baby will be born on either Saturday November 17 or on Monday November 19, (we had to leave it open for the hospital only allows 5 inductions per day and we must fit into their schedule) or whenever he decides to come before those dates.
November 6, 2007
12:2 Times November 2007
Fall Comings and Goings
We had planned to take it slow during the month of October in preparation for the new baby, but we didn’t seem to slow down any at all. Maybe we are being prepared for all the going and going that comes with being new parents. Who knows.
During the first week of October we traveled 3.5 hours to watch the greatest 6 man football game ever in Happy, TX. My hometown Patriots won after Happy fumbled a kneel down in the final seconds of the game. We didn’t just travel that far to watch football, we had a baby shower in Quitaque on Saturday. We weren’t able to stay an visit as long as we had planned because we needed to get back to the Permian Basin for other events.
The next day, Sunday, we drove out to St. Lawrence for the annual Fall Festival. We played bingo and visited with friends and family. We of course picked up our share of homemade German sausage.
We took a week off from travels and spent the next weekend watching Texas Tech football on TV.
The third week, we traveled after work on Monday to Lubbock to speak at a Perspectives class about our time in China and the opportunities to serve as English teachers. We meet up with K’Lann for supper before driving back the same night. That weekend, Jeremy attended his only TTU football game of the year and watched TT get smashed while I got quite sunburned.
We continue to be busy every Tuesday night with our Perspectives class. It has been so great learning about the different ways to make His message accepted in other cultures.
And finally for Halloween, we dressed up for a dinner at Rosa’s Tortilla Factory before volunteering to work at a Fair in the Fall.
WarrenCAT Saleman and German soccer player
Lions and Tigers and Bears
Our apartment has undergone a transformation for a blah second bedroom, to one that contains lions and tigers and bears. Actually lions, a few tigers, a baby giraffe, elephant, and a few teddy bears.
The Baby’s nursery is nearing completion and is now only missing the baby. A GIANT thank you again to all who have generously given to make our baby’s arrival a smooth transition. The nursery is filled with all of the things that we need, or at least the things we think we need. We have never had to raise a child before, so we are only guessing as to what is necessary. But we are confident that you guys all know what we need and send a GIANT thank you for filling us up with necessities and advice.
We had planned to take it slow during the month of October in preparation for the new baby, but we didn’t seem to slow down any at all. Maybe we are being prepared for all the going and going that comes with being new parents. Who knows.
During the first week of October we traveled 3.5 hours to watch the greatest 6 man football game ever in Happy, TX. My hometown Patriots won after Happy fumbled a kneel down in the final seconds of the game. We didn’t just travel that far to watch football, we had a baby shower in Quitaque on Saturday. We weren’t able to stay an visit as long as we had planned because we needed to get back to the Permian Basin for other events.
The next day, Sunday, we drove out to St. Lawrence for the annual Fall Festival. We played bingo and visited with friends and family. We of course picked up our share of homemade German sausage.
We took a week off from travels and spent the next weekend watching Texas Tech football on TV.
The third week, we traveled after work on Monday to Lubbock to speak at a Perspectives class about our time in China and the opportunities to serve as English teachers. We meet up with K’Lann for supper before driving back the same night. That weekend, Jeremy attended his only TTU football game of the year and watched TT get smashed while I got quite sunburned.
We continue to be busy every Tuesday night with our Perspectives class. It has been so great learning about the different ways to make His message accepted in other cultures.
And finally for Halloween, we dressed up for a dinner at Rosa’s Tortilla Factory before volunteering to work at a Fair in the Fall.
WarrenCAT Saleman and German soccer player
Lions and Tigers and Bears
Our apartment has undergone a transformation for a blah second bedroom, to one that contains lions and tigers and bears. Actually lions, a few tigers, a baby giraffe, elephant, and a few teddy bears.
The Baby’s nursery is nearing completion and is now only missing the baby. A GIANT thank you again to all who have generously given to make our baby’s arrival a smooth transition. The nursery is filled with all of the things that we need, or at least the things we think we need. We have never had to raise a child before, so we are only guessing as to what is necessary. But we are confident that you guys all know what we need and send a GIANT thank you for filling us up with necessities and advice.
November 3, 2007
All the Tobacco in China
Here is an interesting take on the smoking going on in China. It was originally published in the Wall Street Journal Online. Hope you enjoy this new perspective.
Taking up the habit of rulers and the common man.
By Hugo Restall
Taking up the habit of rulers and the common man.
By Hugo Restall
BEIJING--To all the other superlatives used to describe China we may now add the fact that it has the tastiest cigarettes. I don't pretend to be a connoisseur, having only begun smoking a couple weeks ago, but then again I've been inhaling the smoke of Chinese cigarettes for years. The country consumes about one-third of the world's cigarettes. As a student, I often carried a pack just to offer to others. Want to start a conversation on a train in China? Shake the pack. Asking directions? Hold out a stick and say, 'chou yi ger.' If the guy is already smoking, he'll tuck it behind his ear for later. After years of resisting, a friend in Shanghai gave me the perfect excuse to start smoking. China has become so polluted, he told me, that it's better to breathe through a cigarette filter than just take in the air on its own. And if your lungs are going to get shot to hell anyway, you might as well enjoy it. So, well into middle age, I figured that it was probably a good time to take up the smoking habit. The result? I enjoy it so much that I don't know why I didn't take it up earlier.
For the Chinese, smoking carries connotations that might seem outdated, even quaint to Westerners. Real men smoke, period. And when real men hang out together, they smoke a lot. The presence of women is appreciated, of course--if they are quick with a lighter. At a formal meal or banquet, each course may be followed by a cigarette, as if to cleanse the palate, and a few more cigarettes will be smoked at the end, in place of port. As the saying goes, fan hou yi zhi yan, sai guo huo shenxian--a cigarette after a meal and you feel better than a living god. Mao Zedong and Deng Xiaoping smoked like chimneys, even when they were meeting foreign dignitaries.
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