Zoe Marie Hancock was born at 3:13pm on Friday, 2/12/2010.  She weighed in at 8lbs 4.2oz and measured 20″ long.  She is a very eager eater and has passed all tests so far.  She has a full head of hair and a lot of hair every where else.  Her cry is more like a squeak, but when she really means it, she actually sounds like a sheep!  It’s really pretty funny!

We went to the hospital on Thursday afternoon for a scheduled induction.  The induction worked, somewhat, and brought labor along from 1cm to 4cm, but could not progress further because Zoe’s head was not engaging Anna’s pelvis, so a C-section was necessary.  We didn’t have time to get any pictures of Matthew in the scrubs for the operating room, but that would have been funny!  We did get to experience labor for several hours and our doula was very supportive in helping to get Anna to 4cm.

Anna is making progress with recovery.  We’re going to try walking the halls tomorrow since she is able to walk to the bathroom now.  The good thing is that little Zoe is perfect and a pretty good baby, too!

Picture from Superbowl Party.

Palm sent all developers a $100 gift card to Amazon for a Christmas present, so I took the opportunity to purchase the Nikon lens I have been thinking of buying.  It is a Nikon 35mm f/1.8G AF-S DX lens and it is absolutely spectacular!  The f/1.8 means it is a fast lens and can operate well at low light.  Here are some random shots from this weekend where I was playing with the new lens.

Marge & Gary gave all of us an early combined birthday present: a group ride on Speedy Johnson’s Airboat tour!  This is something I have always wanted to do and felt bad that we didn’t do it when we lived in Florida.  Speedy Johnson’s is located in Everglades City, FL, so we had a 2 hour drive to get there.

The tour itself was great!  The drivers were knowledgeable about the wildlife and they were not afraid to open up on the throttle!  To get to the tour area, we had to travel through a very thick mangrove swamp.  The path was clearly maintained to allow airboats through, but it was narrow enough to add excitement!  My favorite part was when our driver floored the throttle through a tunnel and we broke out into large open water!

Our driver took us straight to a gator, which meant we had a few minutes alone with the gator before 2 other boats showed up.  I got plenty of great photos of the gator since a friend let me borrow her 70-300mm lens.  Check out the pictures and video!

Mobile version of video: Speedy Johnson’s Airboat (Mobile)