Finally!

Hi everyone, just a quick blog posting while I'm at home. I have to head back to the hospital this evening again, so I don't have much time. However, I know many people are watching this site looking for news on our baby boy's arrival. The long story short is that the wait for his arrival was long and boring. We were admitted at 5am on Wednesday, 5/17, and proceeded to sit there for 10 hours. Well, I sat, Irene layed in bed. Basically, nothing happened. Of course, we both stayed very attentive and awake during this whole time, being first time parents and all. Then, we finally wore out and fell asleep. At 3:42 I was woken up to 3 doctors/nurses in the room looking at the baby heart monitor. After staring at this machine as my only source of entertainment for 10 hours, I basically had the gist of what it was and how to read it (almost how to use it!). It didn't take me long to figure out his heart beat was below the threshold by a lot and had been there for a few minutes. Our doctor told me that they would have to take Irene to the OR to hook her up to a better machine to check the heartbeat out. Ten seconds later, 10 people rush into the room and roll Irene out. Another person throws a smock on me and says "let's go, we don't want you to miss this." I followed her into the OR and couldn't even see Irene because there were so many people in there. Then they told me to sit in a chair, so I did. I thought, "miss what? I can't see anything from this seat." Two minutes later I hear crying and the nurses are running a newborn baby across the room to a station near me. Ahh, that's what they wanted me to see... Anyway, at 3:52pm ET on May 17, 2006, the newest card carrying member of Patriot Nation (and my new best friend) was born.

Brady Matthew Chin

My new best friend

I don't have to wipe the butt of my other best friends....

One of the first things the nurse in the OR said to me was "look at those fingernails!"

And Irene took the opportunity to give him his first manicure