Ashby Is Born − 6 January, 2006

Tara gave birth to our first child, Ashby Julia, at 10:56 PM CST at Saint Paul Children's Hospital in St. Paul, Minnesota. She weighed 8 lbs 3.75 oz and was 21 inches long.

Child birthing is a bizarre and strangely beautiful thing. Ashby popped out looking like a canned peach that had been pressed up to the side of a corrugated aluminum can for years. Now she is a beautiful mini-me.