venturing out so i mustered up my nerve to go out with both kiddos this morning.  just to the bank and target, but it took all morning to get everyone ready and to convince myself i could do this!    thankfully, both mikey and allison did great!  now i’m feeling like we could go out again.  real soon.  like next week.  watch out world, here we come!  ha ha. anyway, this first week home with allie and mikey has been great.  way better than i could have imagined, praise God.  allie’s been a super sleeper (on her back, no less!) and is already sleeping 5 hours at night.  she nurses…

birth story so last friday evening, mikey and i were hanging out in his playroom around 7 pm.  phil was on call at the hospital and called me just to check in and to tell me that ‘deal or no deal’ was on tv.    i told him that i’d had a few irregular contractions again but it didn’t look like it was going to turn in to the real thing anytime soon.  this was my 3rd (or 4th?) bout of ‘false labor’ and was beginning to lose hope that the baby was ever going to come.  phil was sure this was it though, mostly because he really didn’t want to…

introducing… allison kristine tsai born on march 18 at 7:06 am 6 lbs 3/4 oz 18 1/2 inches long   here’s mommy and allie just minutes after she was born daddy’s little girl already got him wrapped around her little finger!  mikey meets the newest tsai let the adventure begin!

ok, so it looks like we’re headed to the hospital tonight! 

match day, 2006 findings from my prenatal appointment this afternoon:  3 cm dilated, 80% effaced, head very low.  but, baby stayed put in order for us to make it to match day!  first, we enjoyed a few pastries and orange juice. after a few ‘filler’ speeches, it was time for the med students to pick up their envelopes with their fate inside!  here’s phil just moments before finding out the big news!  (i actually found out while he was picking up his envelope.  i didn’t mean to!  i was sitting next to the mom of one of phil’s classmates and someone handed her a list of where everyone matched and she…