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Katie and I are expecting our third child at the beginning of July.

Oh heck, that means it is time for a minivan...

Don't be one of those dorks who drives snail-slow and crap like that. I know that you'll probably want to be extra careful with 3 kids in tow but don't frget about the people behind you.

Congrats Andrew! 

Congrats!!!!

I think you mean a super-charged mini-van :teddyr:

Congrats to both of you.

Congrats Andrew from one father to another.  Teaching your children the joys of B-Movies is something everyone should have an oppourtunity to partake in. 

Congratulations.

Haven't you figured out what causes that yet? Maybe you should check the water supply.


Congrats Andrew!

congratulations man!   We're down to 5 weeks for our first one. 
-Ed

Congratulations!  :cheers:

Thanks all.


I have an idea what might be doing it, but need to conduct more testing.

Pretty sure three is our golden number.  Both Katie and I came from families with three children, though some days she wonders what she is going to do with the two we have.  Andy has become painfully two in the last week.

Ed, if you want to hurry her along, get an old pickup truck and find a bumpy section of road.  Children are amazing, because they are every possible thing in a package this big (imagine me holding my hands about two feet apart). 

The truck method works. The day before our son was born we had been running around picking up some landscaping supplies in my old 1969 Datsun pickup (I think it had solid iron bars instead of shocks).

That night when we went to bed my wife says " I think I'll wake you up for a practice run one night."

I just rolled over and went to sleep and about 20 minutes later she wakes me saying her water broke. I thought she was pulling my leg and I wasn't buying it until I felt the wet spot.

You know how it is when you get woke up and you haven't been asleep long, your brain is not in quite sync with what's going on around you (kinda like a computer that needs a reboot).

Anyway, we got the hospital and after about eight hours of inconsistent labor our 5lb 8oz screaming baby boy arrived (he was three weeks early).

We've always thought the truck ride caused it.

When Katie had Jenna, her water broke after we took a ride in my truck to a woodworking store so I could get some stuff for the kitchen cabinets I was building.  The road there (Highway 92, near Atlanta - I think) was a bit bumpy.  We had just settled down for the night when Katie jumped up and ran to the bathroom.  "Man, she has not moved that fast in months." was what came to mind, so I went to the bedroom and got the hospital bag.  When she came out of the bathroom, she told me that we needed to proceed to the hospital.  I picked up the back and opened the front door.

Katie was in labor with Jenna for something like 14 or 16 hours.  She was 8 lbs, 7 oz.  Little Andy came out quick (Katie did not make it into a delivery room) and was 9 lbs, 9 oz.  The wife has expressed the opinion that she wouldn't mind a smaller baby this time.

Both of our kids were small, our son was 5lbs and 8oz and our daughter was 6lbs 8oz. My wife is pretty slender and only gained about 25 lbs with each kid.

She's one of those women a lot of other women hate, three weeks after giving birth she was back in the same clothes she was wearing before getting pregnant.

Kids are great! I weened my kids on the Ramones,black and white scifi,Godzilla,and  shake and bake chicken.
Good deal!Congratulations!

Boy, and it seems like just yesterday when you announced the last bundle of joy!  Time must be speeding up for me...

Congratulamations!

Wow...more power to you...I have one and she wears me out (of course, I'm an old man)...

Congratulations!

Congrats to Andrew, Katie, Jenna and Little Andy.

Whew.  After our second, we thought 'there is NO WAY we could handle a third."  With one, you can split time.  With two, you can divide and conquer.  With three, you are outnumbered....   :teddyr:

Congrats, Andrew! (just saw this).

Michelle and I are expecting our third too, due at the end of February.  No way am I getting a minivan though.  I'll drive two cars everywhere before I do that...or see if I can find an old wood-panelled station wagon that's still in good working condition.

Indeed, I think that three will change the balance of power in the house.  The good thing is that Jenna will be four and getting more manageable.

Hey, how many children does Nathan over at Cold Fusion have?  Three?  Odd, that...

Congratulations Andrew, Katie and family, in spite of all the pain in the neck problems kids can cause you,(seem to be different ones at each stage they go through), children are truly one of the Lord's greatest blessings.

Give the man a cigar!

I can't imagine what it's like to have kids.
Sometimes, a wife and kids seem light years away to me and I'm going on 33 years old.
One of these days I'll get hitched and have a kid.
One of these days...

Anyway, what are you hoping for...a boy or a girl?

I was thinking four, but it could be three.  You kind of lose track after they reach a certain critical mass, not to mention when they bring all their friends over.  I think we had 8 kids at our house at one point yesterday and only two of 'em are ours.

Ash, since we already have one of each - either would be fine with me.  Katie has often said she does not mind which we get.  To that, I replied that I would rather not live in a house with four women once the girls were teenagers.

When I was growing up, there was a family next door.  The father wanted a boy, but their first was a girl, so was the second.  They decided to try a third time - twin girls.  After that, they quit.

Gerry, I think it must be all the wide open spaces out in UT.  Nathan looks around, sees all the empty land and says to himself, "What this needs is more people."  (You know, it would be funnier if I knew Nathan were reading this).

Yup, always a lot of fun when you get a bunch of kids together.  Todd and Jenn's birthday party saw all the fathers rounding up the children (along with stray adult males without children) and herding them home from the restaurant while the girls stayed to talk.  I think we had six adults and ten children, the oldest of which was eight.   Most were four and under.  It was an interesting walk by to Todd's house, then we positioned ourselves at strategic chokepoints and kept the kids in the "safe areas."

Andrew, I grew up in a house with 6 female type people, my mother and 5 younger sisters, my dad was always running of to the store for shall we say, unusual items, when I got a driver's licence I got to take over the business. I found it embarrassing, the degree of which depended on what I was having to buy.

Now if we could just get all of them to move out into the desert where they belong.  My wife's dad lives in Cleveland...Cleveland, Utah that is.  They have a higher population of dinosaur fossils there than they do people.


I always enjoy it when "chokepoint" and "kids" are used in the same sentence. 

Somebody should start a Rescue for young men trapped in a situation like that.  Thinking up the acronym could be a delicate affair.


English can be a fun language.  Hey, did they ever approve "Spork" as a word?

Congrats, Andrew, despite becoming outnumbered in your own home, you should be an old pro at the parenting game by now.

My sister and her husband are expecting their first in March, my cousin's wife is due with their first child in about 10 days. Another cousin and his wife have their first who just turned 6 months around X-Mas. Lots of babies in my extended family lately, luckily we found out I have the hidden talent of being able to rock a child to sleep quite easily. I'm suddenly more popular among my relatives.

One of my aunts wanted a girl so bad she kept trying, and got four boys before they decided it was time to give up.
 

Congrats on the move from man-to-man coverage to playing zone defense.  :thumbup:

    My parents did the "try until we have a girl" game. I was the fourth and a girl...Hanging around with three older brothers made me a tomboy and the Salvation Army happy to get all those pretty dresses and curlers. Congrats Andrew.

Congratulations Andrew................your braver than me.  :thumbup:  :smile:

I also have a brother and a sister making us three.