Christopher A. Wheeler

I am SO tired so I am not going to write much. Most of you don’t know what is going on yet.

Around 7:30pm last night, Kate took Audrey to the UIHC ER. I got there around 11pm. She went in to surgery around 2:30am and got done around 5-ish am. At 6am they let us go to the room she would eventually be at, but I left before they got her there. They are expecting her to stay around 3 days or so.

That’s all for now. I haven’t slept all night.

Well, today is Audrey’s 6th birthday. We went to see Shrek the Third at the movie theatre, and then I let her choose where we went for her birthday dinner, and she chose…
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Today, the day we celebrate the anniversary of the birth of Audrey Elizabeth, I say to her, Happy Birthday.

And to my wife, I say this:

Thank you for awakening me during my slumber that August night. How fortunate that the specific seed which fertilized your ovum was able to find the correct fallopian tube, for any other of my seed would have produced a different child. Thank you for nurturing her during the nine months of gestation. And thank you for the work of labor, in which you pushed this child through the birth canal and into the world.

Tonight, to celebrate, we shall have Red Lobster, and cake!!!

So yesterday after the Pitch, Hit & Run Competition that Michael was in, we took a drive to the Amana Colonies and the Iowa Renaissance Festival while Kate stayed home and studied for her Brain and Behavior final. Michael and Audrey got to enjoy their first funnel cake (an authentic Renaissance treat) while we we waiting for the Joust to start.

The Joust was fun, if not a little WWE’ish. The “knights” were performing wrestling moves, like clotheslines, and one of them stood on top of his horse like it was a turnbuckle and jumped onto his opponent who he had knocked on the ground with his lance. OK, so it was kinda lame, but also still fun at the same time.

So here are some pictures from Easter.

Audrey

Audrey and Tonya counting Easter eggs. She won.