Happy Halloween

Happy Halloween Everyone. I could Post about my Hair Pulling out experience at the Toledo Mayoral Debate On Saturday, instead I'm just gonna post a bunch of pictures of Ella.




Grandma Bird Came for a visit last week


CS over and out

Big Update coming

I got a big update with lots of new pics coming up this weekend so keep checking back. I've been really busy with getting back to work and just haven't had time to post anything. When I get home at 8pm I'd rather hold Elliott than type on the computer.
Here are a couple of cute pics to tied you over until I get to that post.


CS over and out

Ella's Home from the Hospital and a Riot in Toledo all in one day

Well My little baby girl got to come home from the hospital on Saturday October 15th ( I know her name is Elliott, and Ellie makes the most sense, but we are calling her Ella for short.). So far we've watched some Cartoon Planet, soiled about fifty or so diapers and just sat around staring at each other for hours. We also went to the doctor today for her first out of the hospital check up. The doctors said "She's just perfect". Well I could have told you that mister big brain, I mean just freakin' look at her, she's freakin' adorable. Glad to see Med School paid off for you Brainiac. Just kidding he was a very nice man, might have had a problem stating the obvious, but a nice man and a good doctor.

Anyway, here are some pics from the hospital I didn't get to post and some from her at home over the last couple of days.

The Three wise Guys: Any boy who wants to date Elliott will have to go through a strict screening process performed by myself and these three gentleman...the one in the middle can bite through nails.


Elliott & Daddy


The Godfather: Show Respect


Grandma & Grandpa Bird sent this cool cookie bouquet.




"Elliott's the Cutest, and that's the Truth PPPPTTTTBBBBLLLLLL!"

Not only is she cute, but because she came home the same day a riot broke out in North Toledo, she saved me from going to work, where I probably would have had to gone down to the riot to shoot video of it because we only had two Photogs down there. One of the Photogs was almost attacked numerous times and had his life threatened by a bunch of gang bangers that tried to rob him. The other Photog was hit in the arm by a brick. So thanks for keeping me out of that baby.

CS and Elliott Anne over and out.

Ladies and Gentlemen....Miss Elliott Anne

That's right, at 8:20pm EST Elliott Anne joined our family, weighing in at 8lbs. 15.8oz.

It was a very long and tiring day. They induced Morgan's labor at 7:30am and started monitoring her contractions. At one o'clock the doctor was going to Break Morgan's water, but it broke on it's own at about 12:30pm. She started pushing at 5 til 5pm and she did great, she's the strongest person I know. After she had been pushing for about 2 and a half hours, the doctor decided that the baby was just too big and he was going to have to perform a C-section. Morgan was pretty upset and frustrated, but she was a champ, she's my hero.

We went into the OR at about 8pm and at 8:20pm Elliott joined us.


After that Morgan had to spend about an hour in recovery.


More Pics later I have to get back to the hospital.
Papa CS over and out

We're in the home stretch

This is it we're going to the hospital at 7:30pm, they're gonna get Morgan all prepped and in morning they're going to induce labor. It's still quite possible that she could go into labor overnight after the prep her. But if that doesn't happen they're going to start the process of inducing at 7:30am on Wednesday October, 12. Everyone send out good thoughts and wish us luck. And everyone pray that the baby doesn't come out looking like this.

CS over and out

Come out Baby, Baby come out!

The baby is being very stubborn. It refuses to come out. I believe it is because the child hates me.

CS over and out

Baby Time

Morgan still hasn't had the baby, but in a few days at least we are going to be Parents. If she doesn't have it by Tuesday the doctor is going to induce labor on Wednesday. Everyone keep your fingers crossed.

CS over and out

Yuk Yuk the clown

News is serious business. Let's take for example the story of 2 men from our area who took a little trip down to New Orleans. One week before hurricane Katrina hit they were out partying and had a little too much. The wild night ended with them sobering up in the drunk tank. well as the hurricane approached the police began to make ready and had bigger things to worry about than paperwork for a couple of guys that saw "girls gone wild" one too many times. For their own safety the two were moved from the drunk tank to a prison with hardened criminals until the threat of the hurricane passed. Well we all know how the hurricane didn't just pass. Long story short, the two poor slobs have been stuck in that prison for over a month now.
I told my weekend crew that I wanted them to do this story on Saturday, because one of the guys girlfriends was headed down south to help them get out. Anyway, I'm sitting at home watching our six o'clock news and who do I see pop on the television screen.....why it was Yuk Yuck The Clown. You see it turns out that one of the girlfriend is a professional clown. And she insisted, if she was going to be interviewed about his horrible situation, she would only do it in full clown makeup. She was also going down to New Orleans dressed like that to talk to the authorities. Things like this make me want to not take weekends and just work 7 days a week. We all know that with a baby on the way and a lovely wife at home, that's not going to happen.


CS over and out.

Post a Comment

Before the baby is born I want to encourage you all to start posting comments on individual entries. This is beneficial in a couple of ways. First this ties your comment to the particular entry that you are referring too. Second this is a good way to interact with the other people who visit the site that leave a comment, for example someone will write "What a cute baby" and then someone else will post "You are so very right that is the cutest baby I have ever seen, it makes all other babies look like little trolls". Here's a good example from a string of comments tied to a entry from LLR's site.

So let's get started. All you have to do is click the "comments" link at the bottom of this post.

CS over and out

Baby Stuff

You know I'm going to be a weird dad. Hot Topic has a line of Baby stuff called HT Baby, and I really want to get some of the stuff from that line. I think I can talk Morgan into the "Who's Your Daddy?" or the "Mommy's little Monster" Star Wars onesies.

CS over and out

Road Trip Part Deux: or D.C. Cab

I just recently returned from a road trip to Washington D.C. I was sent there on assignment as a field producer/cameraman/editor/babysitter. My reporter and I geared up and left on Monday the 19th of September.
We've been following the story of the Jung Family, and their son Andrew was going to D.C. to speak at a rally for immigration reform. He also stopped by the offices of Ohio senators and members of congress to plead his family's case, calling for reform in the immigration laws.

Hey look! Jerks work back there. Hmmm,


The D.C. guy's desk is a lot nicer than mine.


Hey Willard! It's My Birthday!

Our Hotel was not in the best area.

Yep the accommodations sucked, in fact we had brushes with death 3 times in a row, in a ten minute time period.

My favorite part, aside from interviewing John McCaine, was catching up with my buddy Jason. I haven't seen him in over four years.


CS over and out.

Casting Call

Morgan and I spent the night Casting her belly in Plaster. She is waiting for it to dry right now. Then we shall use it for a Nacho Bowl. The Boobies hold salsa and guacamole.

CS gone but not Forgotten

Catching Up Is Hard To Do

First off Morgan and I are fine, and very excited about our little Chuck Jr. on the way. Even though as I'm typing this Morgan just called to me from across the room and said "For the last few days, the baby's been squishing my stomach, and it's very very very unpleasant." When she says things like that I always walk over to her and give her a hug, then I point at her belly and scold the baby saying "Look at what you've done to your poor mudda" I think the baby likes it.

A couple of months ago my buddy Jonny 5 and I took a little road trip down to Cincinnati. It's only about a 3 hour drive so it went by pretty quick. When we got down there Jonny and I drove around town and he would point out various areas of interest. We were stopped at a light by the stadium when the entire team of Cincinnati Bengals started walking across the street right in front of my car. Then Jonny started heckling Carson Palmer....it was very surreal. After that we met up with a gaggle of Jonny's friends from The 'Natti. After an afternoon in a couple of bars we ended up at the Violent Femmes Concert. The concert was in an alley behind a bar.....I'm not joking, also very surreal. After I heard the songs that I wanted to listen to I went back into the bar, where everyone else was watching the concert on a closed circuit big screen T.V. Wussies. When inside Jonnys buddy from Cinci, Hortor kept introducing me to the most random people. He would say "Hey Chuck, c'mere I want to introduce you to Shayne Graham he's the kicker for the Bengals." And then later he said "Hey Chuck I want you to meet Justin Jeffre from 98 degrees, he's running for Mayor of Cincinnati." That one was even way too weird for me. I mean c'mon, how freakin' random is that. And what are you supposed to say to that and keep a straight face? Luckily I watch way to much T.V., so I told him that I thought he did a good job on that episode of Mad T.V. that he was on. After that we went to another bar.

Now I remember going to the bar, but that is pretty much it, next thing I know I'm waking up in Kentucky. After a breakfast with Jonny and Hump we met up with Jimmy, and Russ then I totally got schooled in my first game of Frisbee Golf ever.

After that we went to Paul's for a Luau. Hortor even bought a pigs head for the event. Why, because Hortor's a freakin' sicko. I kid I love Hortor. That pigs head was pretty sick though, especially when Hortor and I had to throw it away the next day. Hortor pushed the garbage can under it and I kicked it by the platter it was resting on into it. When I did that it started oozing and an eye fell off. Hortor started screaming like a little girl and I ran into the street yelling "That was so Freakin' Nasty!" Aside from that I had a great time. Except I woke up in the closet the next morning. Jonny is making me go back for Octoberfest. I'm scared.
C.S.

Is this thing on? Testing testing one, two, three

Okay, over two months without a post, so there is a lot going on. I wonder if there is anyone out there that cares enough to check the blog anymore.

First off, there is only eight more weeks before little Michael comes out and joins us. No, Morgan and I still haven't found out the sex of the baby, but it has to be a boy. I would be the world's most overprotective father to a girl, especially once she hit her teens.

This is Morgan's belly at 32 weeks.


Morgan made the Crib Bumpers for the crib. They're pretty sweet. She went with the classic cat and the hat.

Okay, I promise I'll post more this week, but I've got to take off. First the 11pm news, then Chuck Suede has to meet up with some folks from work and belt out a couple of tunes.

later,
CS

Keeping Busy

Because we just finished sweeps it seems like everyone is on vacation and we're short handed at the station. I had to go to the zoo and shoot video of a baby swamp monkey because we didn't have enough photogs to do it. I've also had to run downtown and pick up copies of search warrants and video from other stations. All in all it's not that bad since my job usually consists of me sitting at a desk all day. It's good to get outside every now and then.

I just saw this music video called "Everyone Else Has Had More Sex Than Me" by TISM it's pretty funny you should check it out.

Later,
CS