Azur John Hancock

Azur John Hancock was born yesterday May 29th, 2008 at 3:04 pm. He was born weighing in at 8 lbs, 2.5 oz and was 21" long.  We're still here at University of Utah Medical Center and both Kindra and Azur are doing very well. Aria and her grandmothers joined us in the delivery and it was very exciting. Aria was thrilled and started laughing with glee as Azur rapidly emerged. I'm going to add photos as soon as I get the right cables here in the room to download the photos from the camera. I'll let Kindra give more details but I just wanted to get a post up asap. 

Nightmare on Northcrest

Last night, I had one of the scariest moments of my life. I experienced real dread for the first time in a long time. At about 3:30 in the morning, Kindra heard what she thought was a cat fight in our back yard. She decided to have a look. She saw our pet rabbit, Bunny lying on the ground while some sort of dog/coyote was gnawing on her head.

 At that moment, I was awakened by Kindra yelling "SOMETHING'S EATING BUNNY!". But it wasn't quite a yell. It was more like a primal, anguished, slow-motion roar. 

Rough musical transcription:  

I rose from the bed without bending my knees, Dracula style. I am told that I let out a yell similar to Kindra's: "BUUUUNNNNY, NOOOOOO......" in the slo-mo, Lethal Weapon-Dive in Front of the Bullet for your Buddy way. I ran top speed to the back door, turned on the porch lights and ran down the concrete steps to the yard below. I experienced true "Fight or Flight" and I'm proud to say it wasn't flight. I was prepared to grab some wolf-demon-dog with my bare hands, rip his jaws open past the point of dislocation, reach down it's throat and stop it's heart. All while in my boxers. 

I could see our white rabbit sprawled out on the lawn but she was alone. I  immediately looked for blood but gratefully found none. Her eyes were half shut and she was breathing slowly.It was a "Don't go to the light!" kind of moment for me. 

Kindra's glorious baby belly emerged from our bedroom, pulling Kindra behind while she wailed the Bunny Mantra: "Nooo Bunny, Nooo. Noooo Bunny, Noooo".  My next thought was that maybe Bunny's neck or spine had been broken. Either way, I wasn't going to let her lay and die on the cold, wet grass. I scooped her up in my arms, which she normally hates, but she didn't even flinch. I'm certain she was in shock. I got her into our room and set her down. She quickly tried to hide under our dresser and I was glad to see her move. Though still shaken (she won't leave her cage now) she seems ok.

 Once our adrenaline started to subside, we started laughing at ourselves and how dramatic we were. We can't stop laughing about it now. Oh, how I wish I had some kind of motion sensitive security camera on that night. With sound, of course. 

Episode IV, A New Hope...

Well, this used to be a site just for Aria, but since our family is about to grow with a fourth member, we thought it would be best to make about us all. Between Kindra and myself, this should be updated more often than it has been in the past. Of course, that shouldn't be too difficult when I see that it's been two YEARS since the past posting...