{"id":44,"date":"2007-09-29T02:00:08","date_gmt":"2007-09-29T09:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/archives\/44"},"modified":"2007-09-29T02:00:08","modified_gmt":"2007-09-29T09:00:08","slug":"oh-baby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/oh-baby\/","title":{"rendered":"Oh, baby&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"left\">Two exciting baby announcements to share!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sydney_2125sm.jpg\" title=\"Sydney Madsen\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"1\" vspace=\"5\" align=\"left\" src=\"http:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sydney_2125sm.thumbnail.jpg\" hspace=\"12\" alt=\"Sydney Madsen\" title=\"Sydney Madsen\" \/><\/a>First, I finally received photos of the absolutely beautiful <em class=\"b\">Sydney Ann Madsen<\/em> &#8211; daughter of equally beautiful parents Lauren &amp; Chris Madsen.\u00c2\u00a0 <em>(Lauren is my <a href=\"http:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sydney_2044sm.jpg\" title=\"Lauren &amp; Sydney\"><img decoding=\"async\" vspace=\"5\" align=\"right\" src=\"http:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sydney_2044sm.thumbnail.jpg\" hspace=\"12\" alt=\"Lauren &amp; Sydney\" title=\"Lauren &amp; Sydney\" \/><\/a>delightful former step-daughter).\u00c2\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n<p>Can you believe all this dark hair!!\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Sydney was born September 10th at 5:04am, weighing in at 6 lbs 6 oz and 18 1\/2 inches long.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 I can&#8217;t wait to meet her!<\/p>\n<p>And speaking of lots of dark hair&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/veronica.jpg\" alt=\"Veronica Kahaunani Gordon\" class=\"floatleft\" \/>A couple of days later I got an email from dear friend Amy (Pearce) Gordon introducing me to <em class=\"b\">Veronica Kahaunani Gordon<\/em>.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0Amy and her husband Kimo are adopting this adorable angel from Guatamala, and hope to bring her home before her 1st birthday (in June).\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Kimo&#8217;s mom says Veronica looks just like Kimo&#8217;s baby pictures\u00c2\u00a0 <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/greyhavens.org\/myfamily\/smiley.gif\" \/><\/p>\n<p>So we&#8217;re keeping our fingers crossed and I&#8217;m sending positive energy their way for a smooth adoption process&#8230;.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 won&#8217;t you join me?\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And while we&#8217;re at it &#8211; let&#8217;s send &#8220;stay home&#8221; energy for Kimo, who is a Marine.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Looks like he may be deploying again\u00c2\u00a0in January&#8230;..\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Amy, drop by and keep us posted on Veronica and Kimo&#8217;s deployment status!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m very happy for all the proud new\u00c2\u00a0parents, and equally delighted it is not ME!\u00c2\u00a0 <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/greyhavens.org\/myfamily\/smiley.gif\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two exciting baby announcements to share! First, I finally received photos of the absolutely beautiful Sydney Ann Madsen &#8211; daughter of equally beautiful parents Lauren &amp; Chris Madsen.\u00c2\u00a0 (Lauren is my delightful former step-daughter).\u00c2\u00a0 Can you believe all this dark hair!!\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Sydney was born September 10th at 5:04am, weighing in at 6 lbs 6 oz &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/oh-baby\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Oh, baby&#8230;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-familyfriends"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}