Audrey Rose Deschane

We welcomed Audrey Rose into our growing family at 05:04 on January 21st. She weighed 4 lbs 0.7 oz, and measured 17" long (much longer if you stretch out her feet - they look like waterskis!).

Audrey is very excited to meet her Big Sister, cousins, and all of her wonderful family & friends! Unfortunately, that won't be for a few weeks while she rests up at the local spa (aka hospital NICU). Natalie's waiting impatiently to teach her Sis important things like how to wear enough beads and tell Grandma "cookies please."

Like her big sister, Audrey's petite but getting high grades for everything she's supposed to be doing, and wowing all the nurses with how cute she is. Mom's feeling wonderful & Dad is drawing up plans for a state-of-the-art "No Boys Allowed" security system.

Welcome, Calvin Gerard Deschane!

This Tuesday morning at 10:17 am Brian and Emily welcomed their first child, Calvin Gerard Deschane. He weighed 9 lbs and measured 21 in. After a bit of a stressful arrival and some time in the NICU he's doing well. We're so excited about our new nephew and are honored to have been asked to be his godparents as well. Congrats again Brian and Em, we love you, and we can't wait to see you 3 this weekend!

Natalie Grace Deschane

We are very pleased to introduce Natalie Grace Deschane, born May 11th, 2009, at 11:10pm. She's a junior bantamweight at a lean 5 lbs 5 oz., with a good set of lungs and some red-carpet-ready attitude: the picture above was taken less than an hour after she was born. Everyone came home from the hospital this afternoon, and Mom and Natalie are healthy and happy; Dad is just realizing that he's now outnumbered by women...

Thanks for all of your well-wishes & prayers, and mosey on over to our photoblog to see a few pictures of Skittle with her visitors taken shortly after she joined us!