MY WIFE IS PREGNANT!!!

“Your last name isn't Houser is it? Maxwell Houser. Will your son be a wall street broker on the run from the mob?”

“Congrats!”

“LOL! you guys...
All good advice thrifty. Rest, easy cookin stuff, dont forget something to do for both of you in the hospital. My ex-wife was quite sickly and I'm here to tell ya there have been days I would have given 100K for a book, or a deck of cards, or a portable DVD player. Something to do besides sit and stare at the wall and drink hospital coffee. You are gonna be tired but cant sleep, and the brain needs an activity. At least that's how I always get. We spent a week in "the worlds most expensive hotel" when my youngest was born premature with respritory problems. Adding "nothing to do" to those kind of stress and anxiety levels had me climbing the walls.
Good luck to all three of you! You are inside the 48 hour window.”

“Hey, good point! Birch and i played yahtzee while laboring.”

“Wonder if Thrifty is a daddy yet...
Anyone taking bets on official time of delivery?”

“8:13 PM”

“that is one long surgery WK. The appointment was for 0900. I'm guessing 1232”

“What? No baby news yet?”

“hiccup
last edited: 6/12/06 7:07:53 AM”

“Hmmmm...I was all set to light a cigar today.”

“hey thriftyh, everything OK?”

“He's probably too wrapped up with the little dude and momma to post.”

“Maxwell Taylor Cline was born 06/10/06 at 10:06AM via C-section. He weighed 10lbs 4oz and was 23in long!! Mom says "Thank God for C-sections!!" He skipped new born sized diapers and went straight to size 1!!

The operation went well and Beckie and Max are doing just fine. Max had to spend the first 48 hours of his life in the neo natal intensive care unit for an erratic breathing rate and low blood sugar but both of these symptoms are common in C-section babies and babies of this size. He spent his first 24 hours in an incubator which was very hard on Beckie and me but it looked much worse than it actually was. He's very healthy and we expect to go home Tuesday or Wednesday.

We want to thank everyone for the support, well wishes and prayers as well as all the gifts. We’re anxious to get home and start living a “normal” life with our new family.

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“Finally! CONGRATS! :-)”

“Congratulations!

Wow, he's a big fella!”

“Welcome to the world little Max!

Wow, that's a big handsome boy. Congrats to you and Beckie.”

“He's beautiful! And at his size, he'll be carrying a backpack in no time :-)

Congrats to you and your wife.”

“Congrats!!!!”

“Only two days old and he's already exposing himself on the internet? You'll have your hands full when he's a teenager.

Congrats. Hope Beckie is feeling well soon.”

“Ouch! I'll bet your wife said thank god for C sections! Still, congratulations to both of you...I was beginning to worry when you hadn't posted...welcome to the world, Max!”

“congrats!”

“"With Arms Wide Open" by Creed

Well I just heard the news today
It seems my life is going to change
I closed my eyes, begin to pray
Then tears of joy stream down my face
With arms wide open

Under the sunlight
Welcome to this place
I'll show you everything
With arms wide open

Well I don't know if I'm ready
To be the man I have to be
I'll take a breath, take her by my side
We stand in awe, we've created life
With arms wide open

Under the sunlight
Welcome to this place
I'll show you everything
With arms wide open
Now everything has changed
I'll show you love
I'll show you everything
With arms wide open”

“Whooo-hooo! All that sex finally paid off. ;)

He's very handsome Thrifty. Congratulations to you and Beckie. Take lots of pictures, write things down, shoot movies, etc. Next thing you know he'll be in school.”

“A big boy! Congrats to you and Beckie!”

“congrats, to Mom and Dad. Enjoy your new son while you can. They grow up to fast”

“That is one big kid!

Congrats to you and your growing family, thrifty!”

“Wow, well we're home. Got home yesterday at 5:00PM...the first night was pretty rough but we found out, around 3 or 4 AM, that he just didn't like his sleeping arrangement...once we changed that he went right to sleep and hasn't given us any problems since...mom's doing well except a little anxiety which is to be expected”

“thrifty - there is a book series called Babywise that deals with how to get them on a schedule. It helps greatly with their sleep patterns.”

“oh man, the pic doesn't show up here at work!”

“Try this: http://www.insaneflash.com/pics/vaginaclowncar.jpg”

“nope, nothing, guess i'll just have to wait until after work. is she really pregnant? or is this a joke; i'm looking at the address.”

“Ah ....that recalls one of my all-time favorite quotes. Groucho Marx was interviewing the contestants on "You Bet Your Life" like he always did... and he asked a woman if she had any children.

"Yes, I have eleven children," she said.

Groucho quipped, "I like my cigar, too, but I take it out once in a while."


Gotta love live TV ----”

“Tilt, your recall sucks.

Then Groucho said, ".........god put it in the middle so even a fool could find it."”

“And..........it was a man, not a woman.

Groucho says, "......so, you love your wife?"”

“Gee thanks, Miss Grundy!”

“the one from wikipedia is more like what I remember:
"A widely reported, but likely apocryphal, ad-lib is reportedly a response to a female contestant who had almost a dozen children. Groucho asked why the contestant had so many children, to which the contestant replied "I love my husband." Groucho responded, "Lady, I love my cigar, too, but I take it out once in a while." Hertor Arce inserted the claim into Groucho's autobiography The Secret Word is Groucho but Groucho himself denied it ever happened."”

“I didn't read the Wiki article. I just put in the link for the kiddies who'd never heard of the show.”

“i have a friend that has 8 kids... 2 of them "accidents" meaning that they aren't smart enough to use birth control properly. the guy told me he is terrified of her getting pregnant again but refuses to get a vasectomy. i told him he was basically blaming his wife if he wasn't prepared to take responsibility for the situation since clearly between the two of them they couldn't figure out how to use a rubber (i kid you not i almost used these exact words). i didn't mind them having so many kids but to complain about it struck me as really... well... awful.”

“Huh....

Maybe my recall sucks, but I saw that "episode" on late night re-runs about thirty years ago and we couldn't believe what we had just seen.

If I'm wrong I can't imagine where I got the "god put it in the middle so even a fool could find it" line.”

“they were just discussing this cigar thing on, oh what the heck is that cable where they show old tv shows. brain fart. anyways i didnt catch the whole thing, but whatever, it really did happen.

hey, no child is an accident. they are surprises! i have two surprises and two planned. the real surprise? doctor told me i would never have any children at all!
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“Dang Pamela, you've got me beat I have two planned and one surprise!”

“We were surprised each time until we figured out how it happened.

doh!”

“"god put it in the middle so even a fool could find it"

Silly Reverend!”

“
LMAO ---


"DANG!     How did that happen??"

”

“go hijack someone else's thread...that's a pretty cool family, i've seen the show on them...and believe it or not they were all planned”

“I don't know what you expected --- this is Trail Talk fer pete's sake.


(PS: that's not a family; It's a herd.)”

“they've got the right idea...if you've ever watched the show you'd see the parents never lift a finger”

“The copyright on a tt thread is only 20 posts.

This one is fair game.”