The Hendricks Family Experience

Hiding from the bath

Well, it’s been 5 days since Claire was born. We brought her and Stephanie home from the hospital on Friday and spent the weekend trying to catch up on sleep. Monday Steph decided it was a good day for Claire’s first bath. Her cord came off and so she was ready to go. It would be a fair assessment to say that she didn’t like it. It was pretty much one non-stop scream from entry to exit. It was cute, and I’m sure one day she’ll appreciate bathtime.

Click here to see the photos of Claire screaming in the tub.  Pretty cute.

At long last, Claire Allison is finally here! She arrived at 7:07 AM on April 23. She is 8 lbs 3 oz, and is 21.5 inches long. The girls came along to see the delivery and they were so excited and delighted to be the first to see Claire. They were full of questions and got the full tour of the facilities.

Stephanie is doing well, though she is tired and sore. She delivered Claire naturally, though this was not her intention. When labor finally kicked in (after 6 hours), it was too fast to get her an epidural. But everything worked out and now we have Claire.

She had a busy morning. Besides being born, she got the normal baby poking and prodding. She ate breakfast (she is really hungry!), got a bath, and took a nap.  Now the older girls are napping and I think I need a nap too.  We’re all going to visit Mom and Claire this afternoon, and it would be good not to be falling asleep driving to Middletown.

Click here to see Claire’s first set of photos.

UPDATED: Added some more pictures!  Click the above link to see them.

If you’re not a regular follower of our family, our oldest son Chris plays the bass, both upright and electric.  He’s part of the jazz band at Washingtonville high school, which is an extracurricular thing.  They had a concert a couple weeks back so we tried out the new HD camcorder.

He was able to use the bass that had pickups and could be amplified.  This means we were able to hear him over the rest of the band!  Very exciting.  The jazz band does pretty well for a high school group, and of course, we thought Chris did great too.  One funny thing though, he neglected to tell us he needed a black shirt to be “in uniform”.  You’ll notice he stands out in his bright white shirt!

We uploaded the videos to Vimeo in HD.  If you have a pretty recent computer (read: pretty speedy) and some kind of high-speed broadband Internet connection, you can probably watch in HD.  To do this, just click on the HD icon in the video.  You’ll see it at the top right of the video window when you put the mouse there.

Click here to get to the concert videos