After many months of waiting, our new son arrived on Tuesday June 24th at 10:34pm. 

He was 8 lbs 1 oz, and 20 inches long.  Mommy and baby are doing great. 

After a lot of debating, we named him Maverick Michael... 

So far he's a very good baby.  Doesn't cry too much, **fingers crossed**, and he's eating very good.

Mommy actually said that the birth and delivery went pretty good, so that's great. 

Anyway, back to the baby, I'm sure that I'll write some more about him and upload more pictures later. 

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For all of you out there with toddlers, you will know exactly what I'm talking about when I say toddler translations.  Camden is almost two and a half, and he talks and talks and talks....  Unfortunately, Sharla and I are sometimes the only ones that can understand what he's saying.  So, I've decided to help out a little bit, and provide some toddler translations for Camden.

I'll start off with Norn on the bob.  This one he says clearly, and it's when he is eating his corn on the cob.  It's hilarious, norn is his word for corn.  Sharla and I tried a throwback to the Beavis and Butthead days and asked him to say "Cornholio".  He says "Nornholio" great now, but the first time we asked him he said "Norn A-hole", which made Sharla and I just bust out laughing.

Well, it's the 15th of May, and the baby is due on the 23rd of June.  We're getting to a point that at any time we might have to rush to the hospital.  It's crazy to think that we're going to have another little one to take care of.

We still have a problem though.  What the heck to name the kid.  We know it's a boy, and we know he's coming soon, but we are just struggling like crazy with a name.  We have it narrowed down to 2 or 3, (which obviously I'm not going to put out here since my family reads this) but we aren't sold 100% on any of them.  Pretty soon it's going to just come down to a point where we need to make a decision.  And that time is coming pretty soon. 

Three days of our two year old puking all over us and himself, 1 day of Sharla puking, but three days of her feeling like crap, and 4 days of me with a 102 fever and no food staying down.  This flu season is horrible.  It sounds like a ton of people have it, and it's not fun anytime or anywhere.  Dealing with it and a toddler is no joy either.  A couple weeks later I'm mostly caught up on work, and the house has been sterilized.  Woohoo. 

Winter colds are the worst.  We are finally getting over them.  My wife is pregnant, so her immune system is lower and she ended up with a sinus infection.  Wow what a pain in the butt all the sniffles are.  So then, Camden, my 2 year old finally kicks the cold.  He's really feeling better, so that's good.  And he decides to get a tooth.  So he's still crabby.  But I do have to say that he is sleeping better. 

We had a hard time with sleeptime for a while with him.  We admit that we rocked him to sleep WAAAAYYY too long, but when we felt he was ready, and he really was, we put him in his crib, and sat by him until he fell asleep.  That worked well, he seemed to really get it.  Then the best happened when I asked him if he wanted me on the chair or in the other room, and he actually said "other room".  So I left and he fell asleep.  It was awesome.  Angel choirs sang, and we were happy.  It's been decent since then. 

The next big step in the process is putting him in a big bed. 
We are curious how it's going to go in the big bed.  He's going from his crib to a full size bed.  It's a bunk bed that we had previously, and we didn't feel like buying a new twin bed and tearing down the bunk bed.  We have it outfitted with spiderman blankets and sheets, and a spiderman toy chest at the bottom of the bed.  We haven't tried to move him yet, but we're anxiously awaiting how that goes.  Our deadline is just to get him in the new bed and comfortable before the new baby comes in June.  Wish us luck, I'll keep everyone posted.