The wood-shop here in Selah has a laser engraver and I took some reclaimed hardwood to cut Declan, Liam and Ciara’s names into it for a nice name board for their beds.

It worked out really nice and I hope they appreciate them as they get older.

-TJ

Kids' names engraved

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Our Christmas card for 2010

So this year instead of having a family portrait, I thought that showing our three baby’s faces would be best.  I mean, we’re just the parents right?

Ciara has been a doll and the boys — well boy oh boy — Declan is doing great in Preschool and Liam is trying to keep up with his big brother.

One of the things that I noticed when sifting through all the images, was how similar the kids’ noses are… cute little noses.  Just like Kimmie’s!  Well enough for now. Ta, ta!

-TJ

Ciara Ann Mullinax -- What's in a name.

Everyone, thanks again!  Kim and I have so enjoyed reading the messages here and on facebook from everyone through all the craziness the past few days. (All of us are doing well too…)

We hope to get a photo gallery up soon, probably at costco.com and then an e-mail to everyone that we have on our contact lists since word has only been spread by phone or facebook so far…

What we have observed from family recently is there’s a little confusion on the pronunciation of Ciara’s first name.

The best way, as Kim and I can figure, is to say Kee-Ra.  Here’s a short “as it would sound if you lived in Ireland” clip to listen to, courtesy babynamesofireland.com.

We chose the name Ciara because of a few different simple reasons.

1. It maintains the uniquely Irish first name that the two boys have.

2. It would be difficult to shorten.

3. It’s darn pretty.

So remember, pass it on, it’s Kee-Ra (laugh)  Take care everyone.  I’ll post when things calm down.

Oh yeah, don’t forget to watch the video from her first day!

Watch the video of Ciara's first day below!

Update: Both mom and daughter slept well last night. Both will be eating soon and everything seems to be going OK.  We have a few tests and paperwork things this morning so I think we’ll be heading home this afternoon.

As for the video, like I did with Liam, I smashed various video clips and images together last night and let the machine work while we slept.  I hope you enjoy a little bit of Ciara’s first day!

(quick update: some of the photos in the video were tweaked in a bad way after I put it into the video software… she appears a bit gray, pink and yellow at times.  She’s fine, the software just goofed the colors up a bit and I noticed after watching it again…)

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Kim is doing well and is nursing her now. Spread the news, we got a girl!

Ciara is 7 pounds 1 ounce and 21 inches long.

Getting checked in, baby is monitored and IVs plugged in.

We have checked in and I need to start calling folks.

Video updates will probably be the way to go from here out. Kim and baby are doing really well.