This is my first week back to work and it’s been pretty tiring, but not too bad. I’m sleeping pretty poorly as you’d expect. Work is going fine, but at this point spending time with the family is more important. Since Lauren has been born, I’ve gotten to spend more time with Lucas, and so far he’s a pretty good boy.

I have been doing pretty well playing online poker, this is my best year ever.

I am badly out of shape. It’s both bad eating and lack of exercise. It’s easy to use the new baby as an excuse to not work out, but mostly it’s just laziness. Getting back into shape should be my #2 priority right after baby, but it never is.

I’m planning on getting a 2nd generation iPhone when it comes out. I’m usually pretty immune to buying a hot new consumer electronics device, but I guess the hype has finally gotten to me. There are going to be only a couple platforms for mobile devices, one is the Blackberry, the second is the iPhone and the third may be Google’s Android. The Blackberry’s email handling is great(I have one for work), but as a web browser it kind of sucks. Google’s Android is vaporware so far.

Saturday is my 36th birthday. I feel like I haven’t quite given back to the world what I’ve taken from it yet, but I’ll get there some day.

We’re home from the hospital. Tracy is doing well. Lauren seems to be a bigger and more consistent eater than Lucas was. This means she also sleeps more too. So far she’s an easy baby to take care of, I hope this continues.

We’ve put up our first set of pictures of Lauren here

There’s really nothing like holding a newborn in your arms. It’s an amazing feeling and I’m not really much of a emotional or sentimental guy.

Not too much going on here at the hospital. Just hanging out with the Tracy and Lauren. Lucas is in day care so at night I go home and pick him up then bring him back to the hospital to see mommy and baby. Then we go home and I put him to bed. Uncle Mike has been house sitting for the past couple of nights, and so I’d leave Lucas at home with Mike and come back to the hospital and spend the night, then in the morning I’ve been going home and taking Lucas back to day care. It’s been a lot of back and forth to the hospital, but it’s been great.

Mommy and baby are doing well. Thanks to everyone who sent us congratulations.