Spring Has Sprung!

[whino-wino]

NW you are lucky. I just looked out the front door again and it's still coming down hard. Since I posted that last pic we've gotten at least another 8 to 10 inches here.


Here's the pic I took earler:

It's a little dark now, but here's a pic from 5 minutes ago:

Notice how much more snow is piled up by the rear tire of the minivan.


To make things worse, my wife is pregnant and we are over the due date by a couple of days. She just informed me about 1/2 an hour ago that she is having contractions, so now that's started and the roads aren't even plowed yet!! We're hoping she'll make it through the night so we don't have to travel to the hospital in these driving conditions, but she's not so sure she's going to make it. My parents are just a few miles from here and I've called them and put them on standby. Wish us luck...

 

[Bert]

Don't wait until the last min. , but being on the fire dept. , the county boys here said " said if you need a road plowed call us, we'll make you a road".....Just may take some time....Good Luck. Edited by: Bert

 

[NorthernWinos]

WOW....that's a big time event......Will be a sleepless night for all of you.

The plows should be out on the hiways soon...Call the police, they should be able to get the plows out to you......Or...a local farmer could buck out your driveway.....Wish you clear sailing.

Good Luck...and keep us informed.

 

[grapeman]

Wow! Such excitement here on the forum. This is the stuff movies are made of. Don't let your winemaking skills of patience work here. I hope you took action last evening and called for the plow. I hope everything works our well for all of you!

 

[rgecaprock]

Wow !
This will be a story to tell your baby!!!


Will be thinking of you.


Ramona

 

[PeterZ]

All of y'all's northern snowmelt is swelling the Mississippi River here in Memphis. It's well above flood stage, and currently about 10 miles wide. It's normally about a mile wide, but at this height is has inundated the cotton fields on the Arkansas side of the river. It has also flooded alot of the parks on the river on the TN side.

 

[NorthernWinos]

Sorry for sending all our water down your way...think the Corn Belt had a lot of rains lately too...Plus Wisconsin had huge amounts of snow...water has got to go someplace.

Wonder how Mr. & Mrs. W-W are doing???? Hope the baby waited for the snow plows.

 

[Tomy]

Sorry about the excessive amount of water heading your way Peter Z but we had the most snow in many many years here this winter, so it goes for Global Warming. We are under a flood advisory and more rain to come tomorrow which will not releive your wide Mississippi river situation. On a good note the Bass are biteing, and cat fish can be caught without much trouble at all. Tomy

 

[whino-wino]

Well, it was certainly a memorable night. No time to wait for plows, but that's what they make 4WD pickups for. The hospital is about 40 miles from here and it took about an hour and 15 minutes to get there, but we made it. I practically had to drag my wife to the truck kicking and screaming, but I did convince her that we should go. When we got there she casually told the receptionist that "We might have a baby today", with a sort of defiance in her voice as if tosay to me"this isa dumb idea, we should have stayed home." Of course, since she was showing no outside signs that she was in labor they didn't send a nurse to check on her for about 1/2 an hour or so. She checked and said "Oh my, you're dilated to 10 centemeters!" My wife couldnt believe it. She was sure they'd say 4 or 5 at the most. At any rate, the doc was in the room 2 minutes later and 10 minutes after that I got to meet Benjamin for the first time:

He's a big boy too. 10lbs 3 ozs.

Mom and baby are doing fine, but won't be allowed to go home until Wed. morning. I just got home 10 minutes ago and I'm so tired I can hardly think.


I'm signing off. Goodnight everyone......

 

[jobe05]

How very precious......

Congratulations to the proud parents.

I wish Mom and baby well..... Dad... Get your rest........

our gonna need it.......
Edited by: jobe05

 

[Wade E]

Oh Boy, that brings back a few memories!!!!!!!!!!!! Precious he is. Wish you all good health and yes, your going to need your SLEEP while you can get it!

 

[hannabarn]

10#3oz!! If you had waited any longer he could have driven you to the hospital!!

 

[NorthernWinos]

Congratulations!!! What a beautiful baby.

 

[swillologist]

Congrat Mr & Mrs WW. He looks like a keeper and a big one too.

 

[rgecaprock]

That beautiful baby just made my day!!!! He is so sweet. Glad you made it to the hospital and all is well!!!


Congratulations!!!!!!! Mom and Dad!!!


Ramona

 

[mississippi mud]

WOW that is a big baby boy!!I bet y'all love him already.

 

[grapeman]

Now that is a big boy you have there. Did you guys just stroll in there and adopt that baby who was two weeks old? I don't think I have ever seen a neater, cleaner newborn baby than that- so cute! It looks like the newborns they show on TV.


I'm certainly glad you talked her into going to the hospital. Super glad all worked out well. Oh, for that baby, I think she needed to be about 20 cm dilated, not 10!!!

 

[Bert]

Congratulation Mr & Mrs. W-W....I'm so glad everything worked out.....I was thinking about you yesterday, checking the forum every chance I got , to see if there was any word from you...

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[PeterZ]

Congratulations, and Benjamin - welcome to the forum.

 

[masta]

Welcome Benjamin and congrats to you and Mom.