7 pounds, 1 ounce - 20" long - born at 4:08p.m. on April 18, 2007 - Click this link to see photos of Little Claes Too...

Had A Baby It's A...... (ooh.. click)

All Signs Point to Baby

We're off to the Hospital...
All signs point to today as being the day life as a 4 member Claes household begins...

HOORAY!

Less Than 48 hours.... Little Claes Too will be named!

It's been decided





That is right, it's been decided. The baby will be induced on 4/18/07. It's an amazing time. I am officially on "paternity" leave. I'm making the final preparations for the homecoming of the little Claes. The smallest Claes.

The photo at top is Jodie on Saturday, just after Marlee's birthday party at McDonalds (yes, Marlee's birthday is the 21st... but we celebrated on the 14th so we could make sure it happened. It was a blast by the way).

The middle and bottom photos are the "kiss the belly" shots. Our good friend Greg McReynolds took a similar shot of me kissing Marlee in Jodie's belly about 3 years ago... but he's on his way moving from Idaho to New Mexico right now (Hi Greg and Denise) so not available. So, I took these shots (I used the 10-second-dash method for me). I'm pretty happy with them.

Well... this is possibly the last post of an unnamed Little Claes.

I'll come back in a few days and introduce Evan or Harper.

Updating in April... the first week.

April 6,2007 Update

Here we are in front of the bus at The Broken Spoke after seeing the last show while the baby in in the womb... it was Walt Wilkins... of course....on 3/17/07 (SXSW week).. the Palo Duro Records showcase. Good stuff.


So... now Jodie is on her "every week" appointments. I've bee traveling for the new job. In the last month I've been to Midland, Beaumont, Asheville North Carolina, and St. Louis. I'm home for the next few month... as we've got some preparing to do and then... before we know it... Little Claes Too will be a child with a name.

We're looking forward to meeting you Harper or Evan...
We'll find out next Tuesday if we will be scheduling an induction...and when. The feelings are the 17th or 18th right now... we'll see.

I felt Jodie's stomach tonight and the baby was really, really active.. I think it was high-fiving me. Fatherhood part deaux is going to be amazing!