Corinn's New Bed

For about two months, my dad swore me to secrecy while he built. He was constructing a precious heirloom for the family: a beautiful crib for our babies to sleep, rock, and test their lungs out in. It'll accommodate the critters until they're about four months old. He also pre-installed plaques for each baby that would soon be swaddled in the work of art. Notice the plaques on the long end-post. The baby's name and date of birth will be engraved on the plaque. Not that he'll only have three grandkids, but that's all he bought for now. More can be added later.



Dad can't take all the credit, although he deserves most of it. He planned it, altered the plans, bought the material, put it all together, and stained it. The hardest and most time extensive part of it all was the sanding. Mom, Zack, Jim, and I all pitched in to smooth edges, fill imperfections, but mostly repeatedly run the electric sander over the parts of the soon-to-be crib.

The Breakdown Photoshoot

Back in July, the guys in The Breakdown and I headed to the Stone Mountain area to take some shots for their upcoming debut EP called Thoughts Lost in Yellow Lines for which I am also putting together their promo materials with DiscMakers. What's funny is right as they showed up, it began to rain. I already had in mind where I wanted to go and all the spots were outside.

Time for plan B. As we moved away from Lawrenceville, the rain began to let up and the sun began to come out. The evening turned into a beautiful sunset. We went to a place they like to call the mafia house. Here's a few examples of what we took.













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For more, check out their slideshow: www.jenodom.com/slideshow/thebreakdown/index.html

I created a blog!

Jennifer has officially started a blog! Hooray! Now you can keep up with all my daily/weekly happenings. For starters, I am now an aunt. My brother and his wife gave birth almost a month ago to a beautifully big baby girl. Her name is Corinn. I'll have a slide show link up shortly. Chris allowed her mom, mother-in-law, and sister-in-law in for support. Chris was amazing! After 2.5 hours of labor, Corinn wouldn't budge. Later we would find out why. She was 9.6 lbs! Mommy is quickly recovering. Both are still learning how to talk to each other. I had no idea you had to teach the little ones how to feed. I guess I thought it all came with the package! Ha! I was wrong!

In talking with my brother this week, it seems Corinn has discovered her lungs. She's being very communicative. (wink, wink)

Corinn

Corinn was born on July 18th, 2007 around 3 in the afternoon at 9 lbs 6 oz and 20 inches long. She's beautiful. Just a small little red spot on her head where Dr.Hood used a suction, but otherwise, she had great color, good cry, no defects, perfect.












My brother is a new daddy. How proud I am of all of them! One day...