Hannah's schedule for today:

• Sleep
• Poop
• Wake up
• Get diaper changed
• Immediately get another diaper changed
• Eat
• Sleep
• Poop
• Repeat randomly
• Get weighed sometime

There are no time entries because she doesn't tell time yet. Except for getting weighed, this is pretty much her schedule every day.

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Hannah Emily King was born at 8:53 a.m. this morning. She weighted 7 pounds, 1.6 ounces, and measured 18.5 inches in length. She had all her fingers and toes and also apparently attitude. A good one. A strong one. She cried to exercise her lungs, but mostly has been looking around at her near surroundings with the puzzled look you get when you wake up someplace you don't expect to. That "wow, it must have been some party" look. The "I know I should recognize this, but I don't" look.

We had intended for me to come home tonight, but plans have changed. Janet decided (and rightly so) that I should stay there tonight in case she needs help with the baby in the middle of the night. I have hastily come home to take care of some errands and grab some overnight stuff. In my haste, I forgot to bring the camera to download pictures, but I'll get them up within the next 24 hours or so. Keep watching here.

The main thing: Hannah is healthy, Janet seems to have come through fine, Zach is thrilled, and I am stunned--happily so.

Less than 24 hours now. We'll go to the hospital in a bit for preliminary blood work and paperwork. The power went off last night for several hours, and I was hoping Janet would not go into labor because of the added difficulty of getting ready to go in the dark. There was a tornado in Jackson, Tennessee, last night that swept through town within miles of where my Mom lives. Apparently the staff tried to wake up everyone and herd them down to the ground floor for safety, but Mom slept right through it. The tornado went through downtown instead and hit the Justice Center that houses the police department and fire department, among other things. Death toll stands at 10, but Mom is OK.

Zach is coming to terms with having to get up at 4:30 in the morning. We are to check into the hospital at 6 a.m., with surgery scheduled for 8. I have a list of people to call and another list of people to e-mail, and will also post information here--including photos, as soon as I can get them. I don't know how to download photos from the digital camera, but we'll get them ASAP.