Welcome Danielle Leighann!

A warm welcome to Danielle Leighann Babcack (AKA Dani), daughter of Adrienne Gross Babcock and her husband. Dani arrived on April 4, 2007, at 6:07 AM. She weighed 9 pounds 4 oz and was 22.5” long.

From Adrienne: "A little over a month has passed, and Dani is doing very well. She changes daily and is just so much fun to watch. She is now closer to 11 pounds and growing fast!" (Sorry, Adrienne did send this back on May 10th and I just haven't checked my Yahoo account...)

Adrienne has posted more pictures on her Picasa site:
*weeks 1 to 3 here
*week 4
*week 5
*week 7

Congrats to the whole family on the newest addition!!

Update from Adrienne

Adrienne (Gross) Babcock sends greetings and a photo:

"Well, it appears that Jim found me on the Babies R Us site. How’s that for the power of the Internet?? I am due around April 19th with a little girl. We are very, very excited as are her two older brothers, Shaun and Dylan (ages 7 and 5).

I am still working from home as an AVP for Countrywide Home Loans. I design statement layouts and write/edit borrower communications. Telecommuting is the best! Great schedule flexibility to make it to events for the little guys.

It looks like I will get to see Clancey in April when she comes out to visit family – I will try to send pictures. So many things too look forward to this spring!

Attached is the most recent 3-D ultrasound pic I have of our little one at about 30 weeks…technology is such a cool thing."



Thanks for the update Adrienne--and congrats to you on your new joy!!

Baby watch

Things have been a little slow on the blog of late (as they have been at work for me). So I thought I'd put some old classmates' names in the Babies-R-Us registry finder and see what came up (sounds strange, I know, but it's not *so* different from Googling people, is it?) All it shows is the names and due dates - if anybody has any info (or maybe even some pictures!) please share! Here's what I found:

Babies already born:
Betsy (Eisen) & Mark Porada, July 2005
Dave & Kim Yager, January 2006
Clancey (Jackson) & Jon Paul, July 2006
Stacy (Kukura) & David Wyent, October 2006

Babies on the way:
Jennifer (Brown) & Erik Jernberg, March 2007
Adrienne (Gross) & Rob Babcock, April 2007
Brian & Tia Bartis, April 2007

Things are great on our end - we're digging out from a snowstorm (four inches - the Seattle area grinds to a halt with this much snow; back in New England we can handle four inches in our sleep!). I've started a side business on eBay buying and selling classical music recordings, and Simone is now 14 months old! She can talk up a storm (she knows about 40 words), and while she's still primarily a crawler, she's taken a few steps here and there. Mostly, she's just a happy, active little girl! Here's a pic from October:

Hope everyone out there is doing well and having a wonderful holiday season. Take care!,

Adrienne (Gross) Babcock

Adrienne was married last October in California to Robert Babcock. She has a lot of other pictures and info at her site, aptly called adriennegross.com.