Nana and Papa accompanied Renee, Neil and Georgia to the clinic today where we all came face to face with grandchild number five. The baby is about 28 weeks along and she smiled at us, waved and then yawned to tell us she was ready for us to buzz off. The view was clear enough that we could see a dimple in her cheeks when she smiled, just like Sister Georgia.

Neil and I met with the gals at the clinic in Beaverton, Oregon just before lunch. After preliminaries we moved to the ultra sound room. This was a nice sized room with an examination table and a huge big screen T.V. A young lady, technician gooed Renee’s tummy up and started searching for the baby. We were shown the beating heart and watched the wave form for a bit. She is nice and healthy!

Then she switched the machine into 3-d mode and soon we were looking at her face, hands and a foot. We watched for about 20 minutes while Georgia talked to her little sister through the tummy. It really did seem that the baby responded several times when Georgia called to her.

We still have something like 70 days to wait until we get to hold and hug the new baby. It sure wasn’t like this when I was an expectant father.

I know you all haven’t heard much from us this summer. We have been sitting still since May 19th, or about six weeks now. We came back to the wettest spring for the area in many years. It hasn’t rained every day, but we do make a big thing of a nice warm, sunny day. We slather on a lot of sun screen and head out for a long bicycle ride. My winter tan has faded terribly. The weather man keeps promising sun and warm weather. The July fourth weekend was supposed to be hot, but now a drizzle is predicted for Sunday. Perhaps the promised 80 degree weather for next week will come to pass. We hope to dunk our boat, Regal Jug, in the river for a cruise to Astoria in mid July. To be sure, we will have rain gear along.

Judy and I are keeping busy, however. I have upgraded my laptop computer and I am learning Windows 7’s idiosyncrasies. I have had to upgrade several programs, but everything seems to be working now. In addition we help with the diaper construction for Renee’s business. We are helping her keep her head above water while she contracts with a factory to produce these pull-up diapers for her. We do the finish work on a couple dozen diapers each day. She is getting lots of orders now.

We send hugs to all of our friends and relations. Bye for now.

Gary and Judy