The past few weeks have been crazy busy for me. I’ve been consumed by a new website that I have been developing for my work. It has taken longer than I originally thought and has been more stressful than I originally thought (I think due to the fact that I should have developed it on my own time, without leaking it to my co-workers that I was working on it), but I think it will also be a better final product than I thought. I will post it up here when it is done (it should be this weekend), because I would love to hear some feedback about it from you.
On top of the busyness of the website development, I also had a bit of a health scare. I was in the hospital twice because of the issue and still have more tests to do before I can put it all behind me. I have a plan to write a lengthier post about what happened and my thoughts on the issue, but for now I think it’s good enough to say that I am doing well.
The one relaxing and fun thing that I got in over the past few weeks was a visit from my brother Tim (Rachael’s Uncle). Although beat up from my time in the hospital, I had a great time with him. I wish I could hang out with him more often, however I think the 1400 miles in between here and CA will continue to prevent that though. Rachael had a great time with her uncle Tim. They spent a good amount of time just playing and hanging out. Rachael loves him a lot, and as always was really sad to see him go, as was I. But it was a great time nonetheless.
Here are some pictures from some time we spent at the park when Tim was here…
Check out this video. I love seeing Piper having a little fun. Also, when you are done, check out the blog post from Mark Driscoll that the interview was about: Why I Love John Piper.
We had some family over for food, cake, and fun to help Rachael celebrate her 4th birthday on Saturday. And not to be confusing, her birthday is actually on the 11th of January, but somehow her party got pushed to this weekend. It was fun just the same. Rachael had a great time and behaved very well the whole day. We ate and laughed and generally had a great time.
It’s been one week now since Isaiah was born and he is doing great. I think he likes being home. He cries less here. He is pretty content with everything, and that’s saying a lot if you have ever smelled soy baby formula. I think I wold cry my head off if that was all that I could eat, although to be fair he has never tasted fillet mignon like I have, so maybe it’s all about what you compare the flavor to, and if that is the only thing you’ve ever tasted, maybe it would be good. But, I doubt it.
Rachael is being very helpful, and having to learn to be patient with a crying baby around, but she is doing good.
Alina is still in pain, but getting better. She has been able to actually climb the stairs to sleep in our bed the past couple of nights, which has been good. Oh, and she is now eating whatever she wants to, so that’s progress too. I would give it another couple of weeks before she is able to do back flips. OK, well that might be a bit of an exaggeration, but she is getting better.
Isaiah Daniel Wright was born this morning at 7:40am. He weighed a whopping 10lbs 10oz and is 22” long. He has very strong lungs, as proved by his strong vocal styling’s. Other than the fact that he is a boy (and a well-rounded boy at that), he appears to have more of Alina’s features than mine.
Alina was a champ during surgery, and totally preferred the c-section to the natural way that she had Rachael. She is doing well and doing her best to graduate from ice chips to Jell-O to solid foods without getting herself sick.
We have been very impressed with the staff at Centennial Medical Center in Frisco, TX. The anesthesiologist was great at prepping and setting expectations and making us feel at ease about the surgery and did a great job making her feel ok, or rather not feel anything at all. Her doctor really impressed me as well, because (whether correctly or not) I have always held the belief that obstetrician’s were not much more than pre-pediatrician baby catcher’s. But this doctor was actually the one who did Alina’s surgery, I was very impressed.
Interestingly enough, the nurse in the nursery was the plaintiff in the trial that I sat on a few weeks back. We, the jury, did not rule in her favor (or more accurately, did not end up ruling at all), but I recognized her instantly. If she recognized me she gave no indication and she was very professional and kind.
It’s our last weekend of our family being three. On Tuesday we will gain one more and be a total of four, when Isaiah Daniel Wright is born. We decided to take the opportunity to get out one last time and make the day all about Rachael, as she is going to have to learn to share our time now.
We went to Arbor Hills park in Plano to walk around (or in Alina’s case: hobble), and take pictures and just have some fun. It was a great time and I had great success with my new camera (the barter system is great). Anyway, check out the pictures we took, I think they are some of the best that we have of Rachael so far.
Hey guys. I have added a link to my windows live photo gallery where I will put up, and maintain, photos and albums that I used to store here, but became too much work. My live gallery is much easier to maintain and therefore, more likely that I will post new images to it.
I’ve got a bunch of pictures of Rachael up there and will post Isaiah’s baby pictures as soon as we get them.
Well, it’s about time. After almost 9 months of Isaiah growing, Alina is well beyond ready to bring him into the world and out of her belly. Because of his large size (probably close to 10lbs at birth) the doctors recommended, with no argument from Alina, a c-section. It is scheduled for Tuesday, December 16th at 7:30am.
Please pray for the strength that she will need for this last week and for a safe surgery.
We have finally chosen a name for our soon to be born son: Isaiah Daniel Wright. The naming process brought out a lot of nit-picky rules in me about what names I like and don’t like. For instance I don’t like hard sounds like ‘k’ or ‘x’, so names like Isaac and Alexander were off the table. I also didn’t want a name that would be shortened easily by people too lazy to call him by his full name. For example, I like the name Benjamin but I didn’t want people calling him “Ben”. I also didn’t want his name to be shortened down to initials. For instance, one of the names that got shot down because of this rule was “Daniel Jacob”, I didn’t want people to start calling him “DJ”.
There were a number of names that I liked but were already taken up by friends or family members. For instance I really like the names Stephen and Timothy but I didn’t want to use those names because they are the names of two of my brothers (and oh, that timothy is one shady character, jk). There were other names that I liked but have lately had some negative connotations to me with people I have known, like David.
I’m sure that I had more rules that also drove Alina crazy through out this process, but hey, it’s all over now. So what’s in the name “Isaiah Daniel”? Well, Isaiah means “YAHWEH (or, God) is salvation”. And Daniel means “God is my judge”. I like the the idea that the names together show that God is our judge and because of His Son we have salvation. I love how they together tell a great story.
Oh, and just as a reference…
Alina means “noble or kind”
Rachael means “innocent lamb”
Dustin means “valiant fighter” (don’t believe me, check it)
So, I am a valiant fighter that defends my noble wife and innocent daughter through the strength of Yahweh my salvation.
The past few weeks have been crazy busy for me. I’ve been consumed by a new website that I have been developing for my work. It has taken longer than I originally thought and has been more stressful than I originally thought (I think due to the fact that I should have developed it on my own time, without leaking it to my co-workers that I was working on it), but I think it will also be a better final product than I thought. I will post it up here when it is done (it should be this weekend), because I would love to hear some feedback about it from you.
Hey guys. I put a a bunch of new pictures in my gallery. Check them out..
It’s our last weekend of our family being three. On Tuesday we will gain 
Hey guys. I have added a link to my windows live photo gallery where I will put up, and maintain, photos and albums that I used to store here, but became too much work. My live gallery is much easier to maintain and therefore, more likely that I will post new images to it.
Well, it’s about time. After almost 9 months of Isaiah growing, Alina is well beyond ready to bring him into the world and out of her belly. Because of his large size (probably close to 10lbs at birth) the doctors recommended, with no argument from Alina, a c-section. It is scheduled for Tuesday, December 16th at 7:30am.
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