Lisa showing off her new haircut. About one foot of Lisa's old hair is now on its way to charity for cancer victims. 

Rusty and Cynthia enjoy some time together with Dad in the office. 

Grandparents

Cynthia is enjoying some quality time with Grandma and Grandpa Traub. 

Lisa and Cynthia 

Cynthia at 1 week old enjoying a blanket made by Great-Grandma Rishel.  

Flowers!

Lisa and Cynthia pose with one of the beautiful flower arrangements we received. 

Cynthia asleep in her crib. 

Grandma

Cynthia is enjoying some quality time with Grandma Grogin. Grandma came into town to help us out at the hospital and during our transition back to the house. 

I'm ready for my close-up!
Here is Cynthia asleep at the nursery. They kept good watch over her while Lisa rested. Cynthia was a model citizen, and behaved very well during her stay.

At home with the baby. Cynthia came home with us on Wednesday, June 9th. After sitting with mom for a while, she went up and got acclimated to her new crib. All three of the animals were excited to meet Cynthia. 

Pot o' Gold

As we were leaving the hospital to bring Cynthia home a beautiful full rainbow fell over us. Definitely a good sign. 

Baby!

Cynthia Rishel Grogin was born at 6:53pm Monday June 7th. She weighed in at 7lbs 14oz and was 21 inches long.

She is still staying at the hospital, but hopes to come home with us by the end of the week.

Lisa and I sitting with Cynthia. After much deliberation, we agreed that Cynthia was the right name.  

Great Expectations...

Lisa started having contractions 10:30 Sunday night. After an hour of 4-6 minute contractions she was taken to the Hospital. They hooked her up to monitors and confirmed the contractions. The baby's heartbeat was a strong 160bpm. Being 2cm dilated, Lisa will staying at the hospital until the child is born. We are expecting a birth sometime during the day. Since the doc had already planned to induce on Wednesday, they are planning to medically help things along at 7am. Better living through chemistry. More news as it becomes available. It is 2:30am here in the ATL, so I will be grabbing a few hours sleep in preparation.

Spencer

Everyone has been asking "how big is Lisa?" Well, with delivery scheduled for Wednesday this may be your last chance to find out. While the "cd case" isn't a standard of measure. She is now protuding 2 cds from her normal figure! 

Rusty chilling out... This was Lisa's first photo taken with our new digital camera. We went with the Nikon 3200 as we liked the features and images. 

A case of the blogs...

First post to Georgia Grogins blog.

We intend this to be a place for sharing stories and pictures of our adventures and misadventures in parenting. Why a blog? Well, it's a better way of posting pictures than bombarding people's e-mail with massive images. Space is a premium in everyone's mailbox, and the weblog allows you to read narratives or view and download images as you see fit. Blogs have the added bonus that any comments you wish to share can be posted along with the picture for future readers.

Feel free to submit any suggestions to us!

Spencer and Lisa Grogin
"May the ground always rise to meet your feet." -- Blessing of the Wind