Sorry y'all haven't gotten more regular or informative updates from us in the last few days, things have been pretty hard. Jeni has some sort of mystery ailment, or combination of mystery ailments, which prevents her from doing very much aside from lying in bed. Until this evening she hadn't been able to hold down any food for the last two days, which has sapped away all her energy. I've been pretty much on solo Hosea duty, with the notable exception of help from Emma, who's come over for the last two evenings to help out with stuff.

Speaking of which, if anyone here in Edinburgh would like to drop by for a few minutes to lend a hand, mainly to hold Hosea while I do simple stuff like take out the recycling, we'd really appreciate it. Just give us a call when you want to come over.

Also, I'd like to apologize to those of you who've been expecting phone calls from us, and to family who we haven't spoken to since we got home from the hospital. Hopefully we'll be able to make those calls in the next day or two.

Ok, how about some good stuff? Hosea's doing great! Every one who sees him, from the midwives to random people on the street (I've gone out with him twice now), say he looks fantastic. He's doing everything a healthy and happy baby should be doing, and we're remarkably thankful for that. Another praise, even in the midst of her feeling poorly, Jeni's been doing a great job nursing Hosea. At each feeding she nurses him for a while before we give him formula, and he's been taking less and less formula each time. We're not there yet, but we're at least on the right track to getting off the formula.

Finally, please pray for Jeni as she figures out how to get back to school. It's going to take longer than we'd originally planned for her to get back, perhaps significantly longer, and that's been causing her a lot of stress.