Kittitas County's First Baby of 2008!

It turns out that we had the first baby of 2008 in our county. As a result we are on the first page of the Ellensburg Daily Record! We also won hundreds of dollars in gifts and prizes from the community. Here is a link to the article: First Baby Is a Girl! They got most everything right, but we were disappointed to see that they made a mistake where it counts the most--they screwed up the grandparents' names. Most notably, they neglected to include Grandma Kathy.

Other than that, we just want to thank everyone for their support and love. We wish you all could see little Elke in person, but we're sure you all will in time.

Elke Stanley Sander

Our baby girl, Elke Stanley Sander, was born on January 1, 2008 at 12:29am. She is doing very well as is her mother. She was 8 pounds, 1 ounce and 19 inches long at birth. Here is a slide show of pictures. If you want to download or see one of the pictures larger, just click on the show as it moves.

"We're set to pop here, Honey."

We're at 38 weeks and wondering when we'll get to meet this creature. The doc seems to think it should happen any day. The baby is actually more than half way down the birth canal already. So we wait. Here are some recent pics.

Full Term

We officially made it. We're at full term now, so where's the kid? She's been stirring a lot lately, and Maggie has had some Braxton-Hicks contractions. Apparently the baby is in the right position. We're all on break from school now, so the timing is right. Who knows? I guess now we just wait. Here's a few different views of the baby's room.

36 weeks big, 36 weeks big. I never got over . . . 36 weeks bi-i-i-IG!

We're getting dangerously close to having ourselves a family here. At any moment we may become three. There is no telling what our lives will be like in just a few short weeks. And the actual experience of labor is more than a little daunting--strangely enough, Maggie is especially concerned about this part of the process. As you can see from this photo, Maggie continues to enlarge. The baby weighs more than six pounds at this point. That's a lot of baby!

We have the first of our weekly appointments starting Monday. We'll post any new news promptly. Peace out peeps!

FYI: The title of this week's blog is an alteration of the song "36 inches high" on Nick Lowe's Pure Pop for Now People.

35+ Weeks

Sorry it took us so long to post this week. We are still going to post this weekend as well. The doc says we can't go anywhere too far away from here on out. He even said we can't go to Seattle, which is only two hours away. So we may be stuck here, but we are enjoying ourselves. We hope that all is well for you all too.

Three more weeks till full term!

We've made it to 34 weeks. Things seem to be going well. Just wanted to keep y'all apprised of the situation. Here's a pic of Mags--still getting bigger!

We went to Uncle Mack's and Aunt Bernadette's house for Thanksgiving, and we had a real nice time down there. It was good to see those two. They put together quite the feast!















Well, that's about it for now. But we'll keep posting every week now until the kid comes along.
Adios!