It’s been a little while since my last update and I regret to inform you that young little monster #2 has not arrived in the household yet.  Ryan is ready and willing to share space on this blog with his new baby brother and has even found it in his heart to pick out some toys to donate to the entertainment cause.

Jenn is, well, Jenn is doing fine.  She really is a remarkable trooper who deserves all the credit and love in the world.  While it’s still not clear to me how she’s been able to survive these past nine months, the last few weeks has been particularly challenging.  It appears as though Mr. Cooper (spoiler alert to those who didn’t know we’d decided on a name) has decided to position himself in such a way as to appear as though he were standing on Jenn’s spine with his head straight out…. apparently this child has not learned the space saving ways of the fetal position.

For the boys part in this whole process, Ryan and I have managed to complicate things by contracting some sort of rare airborne virus that eats your sinuses out of your head and leaves you violently coughing until you die.  What’s worse, I’m 87.3% sure that Ryan gave this to Jenn.  We’re already going to be ordered to wear surgical masks when this young child decides to enter the world… surgical masks!  How scary is that?  If the first thing I saw when I entered the world is a man in a surgical mask I’m pretty certain I’d call it a life right there at age 0…..

So anyway, I tell you all this to setup what should be a busy next week.  If Mr. Cooper decides he’d like to hang with us, we’re ready.  If he decides to remain difficult and seclusive, we’re going to go in after him on Monday.  While I’m still hopeful we won’t have to do that, knowing how stubborn some of the other young children in our household are, I’m fairly convinced we will be.  Either way, the next entry you read will be the introduction to Cooper Austin.