Bubbles are fun to photograph. Children with bubbles is even better.
We attended a birthday party at Mission Bay Park. I haven’t been to that playground in over a year. I remember taking Ashby here as a very small child. Time flies by so fast.
Aaron Roe(bot) Fulkerson Open source entrepreneur and digital viking.
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Walking In Mission Hills
April 19, 2009 — Aaron FulkersonOn our family walk through Mission Hills this morning I snapped a few photos.
Here is a local market near Ashby’s pre-school that always stands out for me as being oddly out of place. Also, it has “Hommus” on the front window.
It’s not as attractive as the previous photo would imply. Here’s another flattering photo, and I write this with a modicum of sarcasm. As you can see the building is oddly shaped, which makes for a great contrasts of light and shadow, but it also has an odd number of advertisements…errr…proclamations?
And now, a big ass bee. This thing was the size of a silver dollar and looked like it was from the Triassic period. That’s right, pre-Permian extinction.
And for a finish, Roe and me.
Parenting is awesome. Here is Ashby ne…
April 18, 2009 — Aaron FulkersonParenting is awesome.
Here is Ashby near my office with a penguin she adopted that was meant for Roe and was given by Steve and Brigette. We were having a wonderful father – daughter Saturday a couple weeks ago.
Brother and big sis.
Laaaaaadieeesss….
Awesomeness
Enjoy.
Roe 2.0 Product Launch
February 19, 2009 — Aaron FulkersonRoesevelt David Fulkerson was born February 15 at 23:20 PT (-8 GMT). He weighed 7 pounds 9 ounces and was 19 inches long. I say Roe 2.0 because my name is Aaron Roe Fulkerson. However, to be accurate he’s actually a 5.0 release. My Great Grandfather was named Newton Roosevelt Chrisope. He went by “Roe”. He begat two sons, one of which he named Bobby Roe who begat a son and two daughters , on of which was named Roeann (crap, I forget my mother’s middle name). Roeann begat two sons and a daughter. One son, Eric Daniel, begat two daughters, one was named Madeline Roe. The other son, the cooler and more handsome of the two, was named Aaron Roe, that’s me, who begat a son and a daughter. The son was named Roesevelt David.
Can you believe how great Tara looks? This photo was taken about twenty minutes after Roe was born!Tara and I decided to spell it “Roesevelt” to prevent him from being nicked “Roo”. I suspect Geoff “Kangaroo” Norton would have liked this though. I suppose since I have a niece with “Roe” in her name this could make Roesevelt’s version number 5.2…Anyway, David is also my father’s name. Hence, Roesevelt David Fulkerson and that is the story of the name for those of you who asked via Twitter and Facebook.
So, the birth. Tara, Ashby and I went for a nice long walk in Balboa Park in the morning. Tara was experiencing severe leg cramping and back pains. The back pains were clearly contractions, but the leg cramps we weren’t sure about. At first we thought maybe she was just really dehydrated, but Tara being a runner is obsessive about hydration and this seemed unlikely.We cut our walk short and headed home. Tara Googled leg cramps and pregnancy and discovered this can signal the baby is dropping. When this happens sometimes the baby can place pressure on a nerve bundle and cause symptoms that feel just like leg cramping.
I suggested Tara take a nap since her contractions were spaced out and if she were to be in labor it would be good to be rested. She agreed and when she woke we called our Doctor and was instructed to head into the birthing center.
Ashby, Tara and I arrived at Scripps Memorial Hospital, La Jolla at about 3 pm. Her contractions were a couple minutes apart. By 10 PM she had only progressed to 5 cm and the Doctor decided to use an IUPC to determine the strength of her contractions and to gage the effects of Pitocin, which she wanted to introduce to move things along. Thirty to forty minutes later Tara was completely dilated and the nurse and doctor were rushing to get into position.
Contraction. Push three times. “There he is, he’s almost out”
Contraction. Push three times. “Ok, he’s out. Let do one more push.”
Push. Done.
Wow, it was that easy. God bless epidurals. This was completely different from Ashby’s birth.
Speaking of Ashby, she’s been amazing. She is totally into being a big sister.Thanks to a friend of Tara’s she even has a special “big sis” shirt. Her and I have been spending a lot of time together and I’ve been pumping up how special she is for being a big sister. We also had many books about being a
big sister that we’ve been reading to her over the last several months. We attended a big sister class as a family. She had big sister presents from Roe when he was born. I’ve added a song about being a “big sister” to my repertoire of songs I sing nightly (mostly Cat Stevens and the Grateful Dead tunes).During labor I was twittering status updates. I have this setup to also post to my Facebook account, which is nice because I don’t know anyone outside my professional social network that uses Twitter. My intent was to create a record of the events as they happened. Also, it’s a nice way to pass the time and soothe the nerves. Here’s my twitter stream from the time we got to the hospital to the time our family arrived home.
- Hey @feedly check this out: http://bit.ly/11OoAq
- @nytechade don’t be locked in. Deki stores in XHTML. http://twitter.com/michaelw…
- @nateritter I think there is Mardi Gras in Hillcrest.
- @johnhaining watching “guns, germ and steel”? They made a movie from this book?
- Defcon 2. I think we r in labor.
- Not 100% certain, but I think so.
- Officially in labor. Taking ashby home. Stoked I have friends to watch ashby. Thanx @sarahmcarr and @wikiwikiwack
- Back at hospital now.
- Carrying bags into delivery room.
- We’re stylin’ in the corner room. Slow night in the delivery ward.
- Lol Re-pinging @johnmark: @Roebot good luck! let the carnage begin
- Tara is nervous. So am I. She’s remembering what a vaginal birth was like the first time. I’m pretty sure I remember the horror better.
- The nurse totally butchered tara’s arm trying to get in the IV. Couldn’t do it in 2 tries. She’s already bruised.
- Thank you to everyone for the well wishes.
- @sheppy I’m gonna Twitter this birth. Ashby was pretwitter too.
- The dr and nurses just had me explain twitter.
- Nurse #2 struggling to give an IV to Tara now.
- I was just told I could not take photos or video of several procedures, which I wud never anyway, but reason legal (prevent lawsuits) wth
- I’m reading to Tara tweets, dms and facebopk comments about birth between contractions to pass the time. She says thanks to well wishers.
- Tara, who ran 2 times this week, just realized she’ll be able to run Carlsbad 5k apr 5 with all the mindtouchers.
- @MiikoMentz LOL. She didn’t get a chance to say no. She’s enjoying me reading what ppl tweet to us.
- Lol RT @mrhinkle: @Roebot Good luck on labor, hope all goes well. Remember Hinkle Fulkerson is a name you could never forget
- @johnmark got it covered: Rosevelt David Fullerson. Could be an assassin I suppose.
- Damn iPhone spell check changed my last name.
- Wow! Mother down the hall is SCREAMING. Scarey.
- Btw we r 4 cm, contractions every 1-2 min. Eric is here with epidural.
- Breaking waters.
- Now it’s time to chill out and wait…Tara is actually comfortable, unlike last birth. yay epidural!
- LOL, damn monitor ran out of paper and let off a screeching beeping that made us think we were in a code situation. Scary.
- @mattray lol, dude I’m not done yet! Some people video I will live-twtiter. Don’t worry, that’s undoubtedly the most graphic I’ll be.
- @mikepixel Yup, the mother down the hall seemed to have given birth. I hope anyway.
- Ahhh.. yes. Gitmo AbuGraib Fulkerson was an early name we droped. RT @kangamono: @roebot Congrats on the impending birth of ..
- RT @sdtips: The Flower Fields in Carlsbad will be open starting March 1. 9-5p 50 acres of Ranunculus in full bloom.
- I guess I’ll upload some photos to Flickr
- @sheppy man, she is so chill. This is *nothing* like the first birth. This is easy breezy so far.
- @sheppy this is my thought exactly. I will blog the tweets and have a nice record.
- Hilarious photos of Tara http://bit.ly/jq2Ng (no it’s not gross or weird stuff)
- We’re at 5cm now… Contractions increasing in frequency.
- @wikiwickwack we’re good man. Listening to pandora radio and dilating.
- Nurse is suggesting we use an IUPC to gage contraction strength and to inform whether we use pitocin.
- @MiikoMentz did you see her pointing to the smiley face in the photo. I told the nurse to bring in the child pain chart for Tara.
- @johnmark no, they’re thinking she’s not progressing quickly enough. Considering pitocin.
- Juicing Tara with some Pitocin now. Contractions are frequent, but not very strong. Pitocin ++.
- Ashby and Tara earlier today in Balboa Rose Garden: http://bit.ly/14Xcpp
- “Mr. Bojangles” on Pandora. I love this song. Need a little “Father and Son” now.
- @sarahmcarr I forgot to tell you the cat may try to chew your nose off while you’re sleeping….no, I’m not serious.
- Cervix is completely dilated! Woohooo!! 5cm to 10cm in 40 min!! w00t!
- ok we’re going to do this thing! I’ll tweet you from the other side…I don’t think I’ll be able to get a tweet in b/w now and Roe’s birth.
- ok we’re going to do this thing! I’ll tweet you from the other side…I don’t think I’ll be able to get a tweet in b/w now and Roe’s birth.
- Roesevelt David Fulkerson born 23:20 PT 7 lbs 9 oz. 19″. Tara delivered in 3 min of pushing. Wow.
- @rodtrent good luck man! We just delivered a boy.
- @rodtrent good luck man! We just delivered a boy.
- Wow. I can’t believe how different this birth was from Ashby. This time was sooo fast!
- Well, I guess this is the public launch of Roe 2.0. http://bit.ly/EYRCr http://bit.ly/EYRCr
- New comment today on “Loopfuse Gets Series A Funding from True Ventures” http://bit.ly/1bBwkD
- @chris_marino LOL that comment was posted hours earlier. It just took backtype 5 hrs to post.
- I’m home with Ashby. Tara is at the hospital with Roe. Feels really weird to be apart.
- Thanks for latest wave of well wishers. It’s awesome to hear from all of you. I will read them to Tara when Ashby and I get back to hospital
A 28 photo slide show of the birth (it’s PG, nothing gross):
In conclusion, I’m blessed with a gorgeous, healthy and wonderful family that I love dearly. Man am I lucky!
9 Months Pregnant
February 9, 2009 — Aaron Fulkerson9 months pregnant. Roe is due in just a few weeks.Tara is uncomfortable and she is “R E A D Y”.
We’re all excited. Ashby attended a “Big Sister Class” yesterday. It makes her feel special and was nice for her to hear from others what to expect. Tara is still running a couple miles a few days a week. As you might imagine, she gets a lot of looks.
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