On Wednesday, Aug 29, 2007 at 7:20am Tobin Allen Hoopes was born. Being a week overdue, he was a big baby, weighing in at 9 lbs. 9 oz. and 21.5 inches long. Despite that size, the delivery was short (5 hours) and smooth (easy for me to say). Mom and baby did great and came home the next day.

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People used to wait till the actual birth to be able to declare the gender of their new child, but through the miracles of modern technology, I don’t have to.  The ultrasounds today showed quite clearly that the Hoopes name will continue at least one more generation.  I’ve posted the other ultrasound pictures even though they are pretty much all the same.  I’m not posting the “evidence” shots because, even if it’s just a hazy white blob, posting pictures of my son’s boy parts just doesn’t seem right.

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Obviously I don’t use this blog for much of anything but it does make a handy format for sharing the ultrasound pictures from our pre-natal appointment today.  A couple of notes, the doctor was not available to interpret them so we still don’t have an “official” due date but based on the comments of the ultrasound tech, the baby’s size is consistent with 12 weeks which would put the due date right about August 22.  Also, the fourth picture was a bonus shot because the foot came through so well.  The lower right shows that it measure 0.97cm from x to x.

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The biggest project (or program for you project managers out there) that has occupied my time over the past five years is fixing up the fixer-upper we bought in Nov 2000. All in all I’ve got to say I’m pretty happy with the way it has turned out. There are certainly some things I look at and wish they had been done a little differently, but I can’t tell if other people look at them the same way or if it’s just crafter’s remorse. In any event, here are some before and after shots to give you an idea of just how far our little home has come.

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