Our First Cousin

It's a BOY!!!!!

The girls are so excited for their cousin. My sister Katie and her husband Tim welcomed their first baby.

Harper Leslie Conway

Harper Leslie was born January 31, 2009 at 9:55.am. Weighing in at 5lbs. 12 oz. He arrived 3 weeks early. Katies first lesson in parenting things don't always go as planned.

I went to Columbus for less than 24 hours to welcome baby Harper, and run around and help Katie get things settled!

Comedy of errors: Katie had to drive herself to the hospital. Tim is on cruches until Feb. 12th due to a broken ankle. So he can't drive, and obviously can't carry anything while on cruches. I had to run around and get newborn diapers and clothes since he is way to little to fit into anything and as previously mentioned, noone can drive. Tim's mom who lives in town was in Florida at the time and missed the birth. She arrived the next day though! And lastly, the sink in their room where EVERYONE was having to wash their hands before holding the baby was not piped properly so all the water was draining into their luggage that was placed in the cupboard below the sink. Clothes soaked, more laundry, I had to take the baby carrier to the hospital. All so funny.

Nothing can take away from the absolutely beautiful and too cute Harper. We can't wait to spend tons of time with him.

Ruthie called it.... All along she insisted it was a boy and named him Pingu. She announced this morning while we were looking at pictures again, that it was Pingu in the pictures and that she was going to call him Pingu, but Katie could call him Harper if she liked. I am sure Katie appreciates the permission to call him by the name she chose.

All picture are on snapfish and they won't let me download. Hopefully I will have a better picture soon!