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Cute Kate
Jun 9th
Kate is our surprise fifth.. and now we wonder what we would do without this smily little happy girl!
If you can’t see a video below, view Kate talking and singing at the link.
Family Videos
Aug 17th
Here’s a brief movie of Kirsten’s dance class final recital from May. You can watch it here by clicking on the play button below–if it’s not visible, then you can view it at Kirsten’s Dance Video on tangle.
And while we are putting up movies: Annaliese and Andrew just finished their summer-time sport with the FAST swim team. Here’s a “before and after” movie including their events at end of the year championships. They had a blast being on the swim team this summer and made huge improvements. Again, if you don’t see the video below, you can watch it at tangle: Andrew & Annaliese Swim Team Video.
Katarina Emilie Estes arrives…
Nov 13th
Katarina movie (Quicktime, 14.2MB) If your computer is unable to play this movie, please see the free Quicktime download at Apple.com’s Quicktime download site
Although she came a bit late–6 days after Margaret’s due date–we were excited to have Katarina Emilie arrive on Friday, Nov. 10th, 2006 at 6:14pm EST. Partially due to being a bit late, she turned out to be our largest baby yet, weighing in at 9 lbs. 15 oz., and was 21 3/4 inches in length.
Margaret had an interesting week of waiting after the due date came and went, including several nighttime hours-long sequences of real contractions that led to nothing. But finally on Friday, after contractions that started in the middle of the night, Katarina had had enough and was ready to come out. She did most of the hard labor at home; then we finally went in to Margaret’s doctor around 5pm to see if progress was happening, and needless to say they quickly got us over to the hospital when they found out how far she was along.
At the hospital we were told that all the birthing suites were full, but they were looking for a room for us! It turns out we were put in the “PACU”, which after some googling I found out is the “Post Anesthesia Care Unit”–usually used for a minor recovery room [Note: it's also a kind of fish..learn something new from Google all the time!]. It mostly looked like a large closet to us and had a couple standard gurneys in it as well as the medicine dispensing closet for the whole ward and no bathroom! Thankfully, everything went very quickly from that point and Katarina arrived barely one hour later, delivered by a doctor sitting atop a standard gurney since a birthing bed wasn’t available.
Margaret and Katarina are doing wonderfully. They came home from the hospital yesterday and are settling into life here at home. The kids were really excited to get to “meet” her at the hospital on Saturday. At the top of this post are links to some photos from the weekend as well as a video I put together of some footage (all of it post-birth–don’t be worried!) we took over the weekend as well.
In the news again!
Sep 22nd
Note: for those unaware, the “again” references the fact that soon after we moved here a picture of Andrew and Phil at a kite festival ended up in the rural weekly.
During a visit from our good friends the Muresans, we attended another fun Rhythm on the River jazz concert down in Scottsville (on the James River). Soon after we arrived, a photographer came around and started snapping pictures. After taking the picture below, he came over and asked for permission and the girl’s names for the paper; which turned out to be The Hook, a Charlottesville alternative events and info weekly. In a week or two we found the picture on a page of photos depicting the Rhythm on the River event.. so, famous again, twice in one summer!
Note: Click on the image for a larger version
A blog??
Sep 21st
Well, instead of the totally unused estesweb.net, I installed some blogging software here; not because I aspire to be the next superstar blogger, but because it’s extremely easy software to use to just dump useful updates and info out without dealing with editing pages and uploading information to our web host.
Maybe I can even get Margaret to update it once in awhile. Of course, even with an easy to use blogging interface, this site may remain as crusty and un-used as it ever was. We’ll see!