Already a week old

Well, I think I've gotten about 15 hours of sleep in 7 days. In fact, Joe's been noticing a lot of unusual spelling errors that I've been making, such as "birping" and "hellow". Isn't sleep deprivation intriguing?

But look at how cute he is! He's changing really quickly it seems. The shape of his head improves a little bit every day since his mis-shaping journey to life; his hands and feet aren't quite so dry and they seem to be gaining a most needed layer of fat, and his face somehow seems to be maturing.



We gave him a bath the other day and it was a little stressful. Fortunately my sister, Daisy, showed us how to bathe him a much better way so that he's warm and happy with the use of warm towels and stuff. The next picture is right after the bath - not only did he not cry, I think that he actually enjoyed it.

This picture captures just how tiny he is.

Merry Christmas!!!

So we are home with a new addition to the family. His name is Vaughn Edward Davis.

For anyone who hasn't gotten the details yet, Emily went into labor at about 3:30 a.m. Wednesday morning and gave birth at around 3:30 p.m. the same day. The labor and delivery went really well. Emily had an epidural and was loving life after they hooked her up. As she put it, not only did she feel better after getting the epidural, she felt good. She didn't have to get a c-section so she is feeling (relatively) good right now.

Vaughn is one very alert little boy. He is constantly looking around, making eye contact, following things in motion, etc. He hasn't slept all that much, but he hasn't been terribly fussy either. He is a good boy.

We are very happy, in fact overjoyed, to have a new addition to our family. Here are some pics.

It's a boy, and what a boy!

So we went in for the second ultrasound on Monday and found out that our fetus is a boy. We could see that it was within the first few seconds of the ultrasound. I think that seeing the Burns' baby's ultrasound pictures helped us to know what to look for, but on the other hand it was pretty unmistakable. We also found out that it appears to be normal and healthy in all the ways that they can check for at this point, so that's good.

It was really neat to see our baby again and with it looking more human and less alien. It still looks a little alien, but I'm sure he will grow out of it (at least as much as I did). One crazy thing is that the ultrasound tech kept on jostling Emily's tummy so that the baby would move into a better position so that she could check and measure other body parts on the baby.

Emily is feeling less sick, but still has to take medication for nausea every couple of days. Hopefully our camping and other vacation fun in the next few weeks will not be adversely affected by her condition.

Speaking of which, we are going down to Utah today to do some camping with some of Emily's family and then we are going to go up to Washington next Monday on the Columbia with Kim and Aaron Utterback (and Co.) for a few days or so, then on to western Washington to see more family and friends.

Sorry for the lack of pictures, we need a digital camera among other things :(

Baby on Board!

So, as some of you know, Emily is prego. We went in for the ultrasound yesterday and saw fetus. It was totally cool. For the first few seconds I couldn't believe what I was seeing. I mean, it's a human inside another human! The video is like six minutes long or so and the last little while is just some form that the nurse was showing us on the computer screen.

There is one point near the beginning when it pauses and there isn't much to be seen in the uterus, that is when she is pointing out the yolk sac. Weird huh? Anyway a little later it zooms in so that we can see the heartbeat which the nurse measured by dragging a dot to it and recorded for a second then splits the screen and does something to see the beats per minute. I think it was like 160 or something. Whatever it was, it was within the normal range, so whatever. You can't the heartbeat very well on this video because it has been compressed and stuff, so the quality isn't that great.

So for any of you who hasn't seen an ultrasound, here's ours!