Flickr Pitch

If you click the "Spaulding Pictures" link to the right, you'll be taken to

http://www.flickr.com

For those that don't know, Flickr is a really cool photo sharing program that is completely free. If you've got a Yahoo account you can even use that account on Flickr. Once you have an account you can upload pictures to your site, organize them in groups, post notes about them, etc. It is a pretty good way to get digital pictures out to everyone.

You can also set up contacts, so you can be updated realtime as your contacts upload new pictures or make comments on yours. Anyone interested in joining up? If you do, drop us a line...

tim and dori and ollie

Its Cold Outside

Here's a pic of Ollie dressed and ready to take Ris for a walk around the field. Remind anyone of the kid from the Christmas Story?

This is Isabel Wood and Ollie at Lisa's house. Isabel was born two just two days after Ollie. We're excited to have a playmate so close in age.

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The US population is now one bigger that William (Liam) Daniel Nobles has joined the madding crowd. Welcome and congratulations to Bill and Erin!

As previously posted on the baby update page, there has been a bumper crop this year. Here is the rundown:










Adam Drake Segal

Thaxton Paul Falco

Tyler Howard Zarybnisky

Samuel Chandler Laney

Maggie Grace Teel

John Richard Ganske

Isabel Soledad Wood


Due to arrive soon are:
Brian and Katie Mills' new offering,
Chris and Becky Laney's third (and final?) offspring
and Jason and Mary Houston's inagural effort

Good luck to all!

Birth Record

We headed to downtown Bury St. Edmunds today to get Ollie all setup officially with a birth certificate. It was a great British civil service experience all around:

The Registrar's office is in the Lady Margaret building of Old Shire Hall (awesome name!) which is part of the city government offices that connect to the ruins of the Abbey. To get to the office you pass through one of the stone archways that pre dates the Norman era.

Once inside, the Registrar was classically British--polite to the point of awkwardnesss, yet firm when it came to the way paperwork must be handled. The Bury St. Edmunds birth register is a large record book, which has to be filled out and signed with a fountain pen (there are blotters between each record page to make this work). The registrar fills out the information and then passes the fountain pen over for one of the parents to sign.

After all that you get a computer copy of that entry in the book (the registrar made a mistake on the first copy of this she printed, at which point she said 'Oh, this form's all wonky, let me get you another one!') and a packet of information for new parents (which the registrar described as 'a load of bumpf').

So, for the bargain price of 3 pound 50 we learned two new words and got Oliver's details down in the big book.

Sappy Alert!

Who knew having a baby was this much fun? No, its not the percocet talking...despite the poopy diapers and the middle of the night feedings, we LOVE our new role as parents. I can't explain how great it is to be a Mom or how much I enjoy watching Tim thrive as a new Dad. Okay, enough sappy stuff. Here's a picture that I took this morning. We'll keep them coming between feedings and diaper changes.
Love,
Dori

Oliver Thomas

Welcome to the Spaulding's new running account of life here in the U.K. For those that have been reading the updates from the baby webpage, we're going to discontinue that in favor of this format. We'll still be posting a bunch of photos to Flickr, so if you just want to browse the images, check out http://www.flickr.com/photos/spauldingtj/

At any rate, our first post is about Oliver Thomas Spaulding, the new addition to the family. We all arrived back here at the house this afternoon and are getting adjusted to our new lives. Dori is feeling pretty good despite recovering from the C-section, and Ollie is getting the hang of life at home.

Here's a picture of the little man yawning away.