Sep 29
Dart Mackel says Hello!
As the three of you who read this blog may know, my wife has been pregnant for the last 9 months with our second son. Well on a certain Wednesday in Sept (Happy Belated again Christine!), Dart was born at a healthy 8 pounds and 6 oz!
This time around, the wife was induced because the doctors concluded that if she had waited another week or two for nature to take its course, Dart would’ve been big enough that certain complications might arise. But labor went well (even if way longer than our first time) and at 5:14pm Dart came into the world!
Since then, things have been really good. He’s currently waking up only twice during the night to eat, and I think that’s pretty good right? My wife in the meantime is really trying to quickly get him on a sleeping schedule like she did with our first son but things are still quite manageable right now. And our first son Little Mac has seemingly taken a liking to his new brother, petting him affectionately like a dog. haha And before the questions start springing up – I’m trying to make Dart our LAST kid. I think the wife really wants to go for another in hopes that we’ll get a girl but I’m desperately trying to stay out of that trap. (#):)
September 29th, 2008 at 1:21 pm
Congratulations! He’s very cute, glad everything went smoothly for you.
September 29th, 2008 at 3:03 pm
@Matt – Hey thanks man, and what’s this new site that you’re linking to? I thought you had the “Entrepreneurial Blog”!
September 29th, 2008 at 5:19 pm
Congratulations! Glad it all went well
September 29th, 2008 at 7:55 pm
Congratulations!!
September 29th, 2008 at 8:38 pm
Happy Birthday Dart. You were born on the greatest day of the year. LOL.
Congrats to the happy mommy and daddy. I’m so happy for you both, and thanks for reminding me of how old I am. What a pal. LOL
September 30th, 2008 at 3:12 am
Congratulations to you both!! Although using the phrase “the wife” makes you sound like an elderly Northern English man
September 30th, 2008 at 11:01 am
@Tish – Thanks! and it’s Good to hear from you!
@Christine – Ha ha ha. That’s what I’m here for. I pop in from a weeks long hiatus just to give you the nudge. (#);D
@Pete – Hm. You may have a good point…I’ll switch it to “my lesser half” ha ha. BTW, I hope everything is going well in your world Pete. I was going to drop a comment on your last post but I saw that you closed comments on it. *nod*
September 30th, 2008 at 2:25 pm
Thanks manny, yeah I turned them off on that one, it’s a private time right now until I get back on the blog horse once again.
September 30th, 2008 at 3:57 pm
@Pete – Well in any event, glad to see you and we’re thinking of you over here in the worst economy in the world!
September 30th, 2008 at 10:23 pm
Congratulations on your second newborn son!
Welcome Dart!
October 1st, 2008 at 8:41 am
@Beth – Thanks a lot. (#):)
October 1st, 2008 at 12:07 pm
Congrats Bush. Glad to know everything went well.
October 1st, 2008 at 1:31 pm
@Madhur – Hey thanks man! How’s everything been in YOUR neck of the woods?
October 2nd, 2008 at 9:31 am
Hi, First time here. Great to know you are a father again to a very cute baby boy. Congratulations!1
October 3rd, 2008 at 2:44 pm
Hey thanks and welcome to the site!
October 4th, 2008 at 4:12 pm
Things are fine man. Have you checked out my gaming blog ?
October 6th, 2008 at 2:15 am
@Madhur – Your GAMING blog? Hm, I’m not sure that I knew that you had one. I will certainly try and get around to checking it today and subscribing to the feed!
October 7th, 2008 at 12:21 pm
Congrats on the new baby and yeah I think you’ll be announcing another one within a year or two.
October 7th, 2008 at 3:39 pm
@Opal T – Oh that’s REEEEEEEEEEALLLY funny. Ha ha. NO CHANCE there’s anymore kids coming! The wife is trying to trick me into having 8 more (in the spirit of “going for a girl”) but I’m too smart to fall for that. (#):D
October 10th, 2008 at 10:19 pm
Wow – I was certain I had commented here earlier. But it’s never too late to congratulate you, right? Congratulations! Dart is adorable! Welcome to the world, Dart. I hope and pray that it is good to you!
October 15th, 2008 at 10:24 am
@Teeni – Thanks! So far the world is treating Dart very well, much better than that other kid of mine. In the last two days he has eaten coins, eaten staples, fallen off his bike scratching up his face, and also skinned up his knees this morning!