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The week prior to Walter’s birth I was an absolute wreck and couldn’t imagine why God hadn’t sent Walter to us sooner.  I worried about how big he would be and imagined all the reasons why I should have my way on the issue.  After all I thought 9 months of pregnancy is enough, what

Walter is home with us at last!  It took a while to wade through the hospital paper work etc…  The kids were pretty good when pacified with Scooby Doo movies.  The only thing I will miss about the NICU is the day shift nurse Walter had 4 days of his stay, Winnie.  I have never

I spent all day in the NICU with Walter to help care for him, keep him company, and try to get him nursing while Shane went to church with the kids, Aunt Mimi and baby Jacob.  It was a quiet day, but very tiring.  Walter is still sleepy after all the stress he has been

Much to our shock, we walked into the NICU this morning to find Walter off the CPAP!  There he was, all alone, sleeping like a baby with slow, easy breaths.  I was so excited, I pulled out the camera just to get some video footage of him breathing on his own! As we have done

We went in yesterday morning and found Walter resting much more peacefully.  His oxygen on CPAP was down from 50% to 30%.  I was able to help feed him and give him a taste of Mom’s milk on his pacifier while his tummy was being made full to help him be able to nurse when

We arrived at the NICU this morning to find Walter’s name on his room door and he was wrapped up and resting.  He really likes to be wrapped up (i.e he is really mad if he is not) so the nurses devised a way to wrap him up and still have access to all his

Our baby boy, Walter Henry Klingonsmith was born around 6 am yesterday.  He was 9lb 14 oz, 21 inches long and with a nice large 14 1/2 inch head and larger chest.  This was my best delivery ever in a lot of ways  and we are so  happy to have him be part of our

My brother Ryan and his wife Ann came to visit over the past weekend with their two kids.  Our kids were very excited to have their cousins to play with and stayed up really late when the arrived Friday night.  The next day we made hoagies and packed up our cars for a trip to

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Shane and I try to bring our children to the temple when the weather is nice in Seattle so that they can be there, enjoy the grounds and feel how special a place it is to us.  This past Friday was beautiful and so we headed down as a family to spend some time there. 

On June 22-26th, we took our newly Scuba Certified Venturing Crew #206 up to the San Juan Islands for a week of exploring, boating, camping and Scuba Diving. Two days before we left for the week our dishwasher died and the week or so before that, our computer blew up.  So, in the three days

For a long time I have wanted to obtain portraits or pictures of Christ to give to each child to have as their own.  My taste leans rather towards the old masters and I found a surprising lack of pictures available to buy at the church stores that I thought were pretty much staples.  The