Finally some more pictures of Reagan

I’m not going to give excuses for taking so long to post some more pictures because I’m assuming that everyone can understand that it’s been a little tough to find time over the last few weeks.

With that said, here are a few pictures:

 

Unfortunately for everyone out there Reagan is growing and changing every day, so these pictures are already a bit outdated.  Fortunately for everyone out there we’ve got some great picture-taking opportunities coming up this weekend.  My Dad and Thesha’s Dad are coming out to see their new granddaughter and assist in her baby blessing.   It will be interesting to see how this works in our tiny meeting house.  We just became a ward but we’re still in a branch-sized meeting house.  It’s a good thing the whole family isn’t here – the family would outnumber our whole ward. 

There haven’t been too many funny things happen lately to blog about (partially because Thesha told me that getting pooped on WASN’T funny) but the funny stories are what keep everyone coming back to check the blog.  So, at the risk of detracting from Reagan’s attention, I’ll just add a little something based on something you may have noticed was missing from the pictures – my goatee.  Yes, I finally followed my Mission President’s advice to keep a clean shaven face.

People have asked me why and there are a lot of reasons, really.  Here are my top ten – mostly fake – reasons for shaving off my goatee:

10. I’ve been trying to lose some weight and figured I’d start with the easy stuff first. 

9. With a new baby I just couldn’t afford it.

8. The aerodynamic drag was keeping me from realizing my Olympic swimming dreams.  Yep, that’s all that was holding me back.

7. I’m finally having to say good bye to my rebel 20’s – next on the to do list, buy a mini van…not.

6. I was so tired from sleepless nights that I accidentally shaved off the right side and had to lose the rest of it just to cover up my mistake.

5. Bringing a new baby home wasn’t traumatic enough for Tyler.

4. I finally got rid of that zit I’ve been using my goatee to cover up for the past 6 years.

3. The red in my goatee clashed with all the pink crap around the house.

2. Let’s face it, facial hair is a lot of work if you want it to look nice and I’m getting way too lazy for all that upkeep.

1. It’s 2010…Goatees are so 2000’s…time get with it.

Our New Addition

There will obviously be plenty more to come, but I wanted to make the quick update to the blog while everyone else was napping.

On Thursday, 3 June 2010 at 12:59 PM (Eastern time) Reagan Nicole Choate arrived weighing in at 6 pounds 12.6 ounces and 19 1/2 inches.  Everything went great (with the exception of having to get the epidural re-done) and Thesha and Reagan are doing fine.  We expect to come home on Saturday.

Here are a couple quick pictures…

Here’s Reagan all bundled up like a burrito.

Here’s one without the covers as we were checking all ten toes, then fingers, and ten inches of hair (ok, not quite that much, but still…)

And here’s one with both Tyler and Reagan.  As you can tell from Tyler’s posture, he still isn’t quite sure what to do with this little lady.

We’ll have more stories later, but needless to say we’re all pretty happy with our new arrival.  If you had told me about four years ago that we would not only have one kid but two kids by now I’d have told you that you were crazy.  If you had told me that one of those kids was going to be born in Newark, Delaware I would have rolled my eyes and told you to stop making up crazy stories that just aren’t true and could never be true.  It’s amazing what all can happen in just a few short years.