Little Xavi

Well, as you can see,since my last post a lot has changed, quite a lot. On Saturday January 3, we woke up and Amie wasn't feeling so great. She was having little contractions and I had to go to the office to get a little work done. By the time I got home at 2:45 she wasn't feeling very well at all. It was getting worse and worse for her and so we headed to the hospital and arrived around 4:00pm.

On a side note driving to the hospital with a wife in labor is terrible. She is having contractions and every time she squeezed my hand the speedometer would jump up 10-20 mph. I was trying empathize with her, like when i have to go to the bathroom when i am driving and the pressure starts coming in waves. Rachel and I have had extensive conversation, and discussion on "the waves" of an Iwaszkowiec digestive system and both agree that if you make it through wave 4 you need to find a bathroom ASAP. But anyway, i think that kinda is comparable except with labor 100 times worse.

So anyway, we made it to the hospital, Amie got some drugs and felt better. We think her drugs started to wear off but are not certain, she just had some pain but ended up getting through it and delivering at 9:41 pm on January 3rd. She did awesome and it was cool to see her demeanor change when that little boy came out. He was 7 pounds 13 ounces at birth and was 19 and a half inches. Name: Conrad Xavier Iwaszkowiec (aka Xavi).


So we are glad he is here and he is cute and we like him a lot. Hopefully all you readers will get to meet him soon. But because i don't want to make this a baby blog, I thought i would just give insights from the past week.

Number 1 insight is that hospitals suck. I am not a fan of staying in them for long periods of time. I know that it is beneficial and helpful to have all these different specialists in a central location and to have a nice sterile environment. But can we just get a window that opens in every room!!! Just a little, enough to let in some fresh air. I hate hospital air, it is so terrible, almost as bad as the food.

Side note on hospital food: Amie got the chips and salsa quite a bit with her meals (for me of course). but the salsa wasn't the best, it was clearly street practice salsa. Ed got me thinking about teaching Xavi the proper techniques of putting bags of salsa in the road. This led to me thinking of creating a road salsa scale. Clearly this hospital salsa was used as practice salsa. It was too thick, didn't have a good taste. It could probably splatter ok, but you would only want to use this on backroads where you would get some rusty pickup running over it. Pace on the other hand is a step up in the salsa scale, you can use Pace in subdivisions and small towns and cities, it is a good consistency to get that family sized minivan withe excellent wheel coverage. I wondered what would be the creme de la creme of salsa? What would you put on Michigan Avenue for that Mercedes to Run over? Or in Times Square for that Rolls to get all over its tires? I think we need to discuss this. I was thinking Los's mango salsa would probably be up on that top tier of salsa worthy to be placed in the big cities.

Anyway, that has been one thing occupying my mind lately, feel free to offer input as you see fit. back to other weekly insights, I miss sleep. We used to get along, he would come visit, we would hang out for about 8 hours, it was nice. Lately he hasn't come too often. Maybe sleep is mad that i had a child, he is jealous, or upset, regardless sleep needs to come back and work through this with me. We can do this, i believe it to be possible.

Last Friday Amie and I finally got our internet/tv service. A few things, High Definition is great and i am slowly getting spoiled by it. DVR's are the best inventions ever!!! Mom and Dad came by to watch the biggest loser (an excuse to come over and see their grandchild) but the brought dinner with them as well. So anyway, we weren't done and the show was about to start and then i was like wait a second "I can record it." It was lovely, we took our time eating and then got through all the commercials, I love it. Probably the second best thing that i got this week.

Well, if you have read all this congrats to you, you must be really really bored. I am off to take a nap, and i tried to upload more photos but with no luck. I will try again later. Also, if anyone else wants to contribute don't feel bad about knocking this post down, it won't hurt my feelings.