(New) Arrival

Here it is, the post you've all been waiting for...

We have the pleasure of announcing the birth of our new son, Isaac Ellis Johnsen. I will, for lack of time, refrain from disclosing all details of the process of his arrival; however, I will briefly outline the sequence of events for your reading pleasure.
We arrived at home from the posting of the previous entry at around 12:30 am on Sunday the eleventh of June. At approximately 1:30 that morning, Alison felt a "pop" and began to leak amniotic fluid; the absence of a currently invented teleportation device suggested that the sound/feeling was not, as one would otherwise assume, the sound/feeling of fluid materializing suddenly in that location; instead, it was fluid that was formerly located inside the amniotic sac and which had vacated its former premises. One can imagine the fetus vainly struggling, with his little wrinkled hands, to prevent the inevitable emptying of his private bath.
After Alison had showered and we had grabbed a few last items, I drove her to the hospital, where we learned the irony of pre-admitting (this irony being the fact that you must, after all, be admitted anyway at the time of arrival). A few minutes later (at about 2:35 am), we settled into Labor & Delivery Room 11 at Davis Hospital to wait.
The major worry that we had during the labor process was that, our OB being on-call at McKay-Dee at the time, she would be called away suddenly. Should this have happened, we would likely have had another baby via c-section (a VBAC requires the continuous presence, within a 5-minute transit period, of a doctor; thus our OB's presence at McKay-Dee would have rendered our baby un-VBAC-able). Alison bravely weathered the increasingly more intense storm of contractions without medication, as we were waiting to hear from Doctor Boheen whether she had progressed far enough that we could consider a trial of labor. At 7 am, it was decided that Alison had dilated far enough to administer an epidural. Labor became easier for all concerned about fifteen minutes later.
At about 9:30, Dr. Boheen arrived and announced, after a short examination, that Alison and baby were ready to go. My anxiety decreased substantially as I realized that there was now no way that we would end up doing a c-section save for the usual reasons which would accompany any normal vaginal birth. Alison pushed through five contractions, and with the help of a small incision and a vacuum extractor, our little boy entered the cold and breezy realm of extrauterine mortality.
So, here are the statistics normally reported after such an event:

Date of birth: June 11, 2006
Time of birth: 9:43 am
Weight of baby: ~8 lbs 6 oz
Length of baby: ~21.5 inches
Sex of baby: male
Baby's name: Isaac Ellis Johnsen

Further details may be disclosed at our discretion upon further and more intimate interrogation. Photographs will be posted as soon as they become available. Two photos taken by Jeremy are available at johnsenclan.com.