Jackson Nathaniel Abando was born on Saturday, November 16, at 6:21am. The set is now complete. He's got a Flickr account, and a web site, because he is my kid. Healthy, 10 fingers, 10 toes. Tracy's doing great. Labor was maybe 8 hours total, got to the hospital around 1:30am, epidural around 3:30am. The hospital stay at Prentice was fabulous. This time took advantage of the location and got out and got food from local eateries, including dinner from Ditka's on Sunday night (Tracy had a steak craving). Lucy seems to be taking the family additional pretty well. She gives him kisses and hugs when she can. She got to stay with Grandma while Tracy and I were at the hospital with Jackson. 2 kids now. Crazy. Still got another week off to help out, timed pretty well with Black Friday this week. Definitely feels easier, maybe because we know a little more of what to expect, with a new born. Definitely not tracking as much. No counting wet/poopy diapers. No tracking sleep schedules. He already started putting on weight by his 4 day appointment, so only feedings on demand. It's really been all Tracy, I just get poop duty, and take care of Lucy. Besides the main addition to the family, I also got a new iPad mini (2nd Generation), handed down my iPad (3rd Generation) to Lucy, and 2 weeks ago traded in the old iPad (1st Generation), which was Lucy's, at Target for a $200 gift card. Tracy's switched over to the Kindle Paperwhite (2013 Edition), so she can read in the dim light while Jackson is awake in the middle of the night. They've been co-sleeping and I've been on the couch. That's pretty much all that's new so far.

Paternity leave/vacation is almost over. 1 day left. And then probably a mad rush at work because we're moving to Willis Tower in a week. Crazy. Absolutely crazy. Took my mom to the airport this morning. Thanks for helping these last 2 weeks. Thanksgiving was good, she came over, along with my in-laws, and that's it. The grandparents did all the cooking and the cleaning, so that was nice. So a pretty nice and quiet first thanksgiving for Jackson. He had his 2 week checkup today, all good. 8 lbs, 20 1/4" long, 14 1/8" head. Pretty in line with what Lucy was like. But he's starting to fill out the newborn clothes better. Almost don't need the newborn insert for the carseat too. He is beginning to show signs of favoring turning right while sleeping, so we need to start forcing left, just like Lucy too. Don't want him to have to wear a helmet. Finally updated storytlr to 1.2, and went ahead and did Memex up to MediaWiki 1.21.3. Surprisingly easy. On both accounts. No skin on Memex though. It looked bad. Will start looking into some responsive frameworks, because, why not? I should have plenty of free time on my hands, right? Work, 2 kids, and a wife? I've been sleeping on the couch since Jackson's taken my spot on the bed, and it's hard not to want to watch anything, since the TV's right there. I did watch Elysium the other day, which was pretty good. Started reading Inferno, the Dan Brown book. Read through some comics. Loving the iPad mini (2nd Generation).