Joshua to Lachlan Photo Morph

Here’s a neat little trick.
Using Morpheus Photo Animation Suite you can take two or more images and morph them together. Great in this case to show off Joshua and his cousin Lachlan Rattray.
I would have included his other boy cousin Nicholas Rattray, but I still haven’t got a high res photo of him from his parents.
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What every man wants for Christmas

This is the hottest selling product this 2006 Christmas period for men aged 18 – 80. It’s the last remote any man will ever want, forget the TV or DVD remote, this little beauty will help you forget that you even have a TV. This universal X-Rated woman remote from JVC has been selling in the millions world wide.

Bursting thru…

So, now Kim is 34 weeks pregnant.
She’s totally over the whole experience now, and just wants the little guy to come out of there.
Kim the trooper is dealing with Joshua giving her a tummy beating, pains, cramps, trouble getting up, turning over in bed… you name it. I can only sit by and watch my beautiful wife grow this amazing human inside of her.
And of course, while I’m sitting there, I can feel Joshua trying to find a comfortable spot, with his legs, arms, head and bum giving Kim a hard time. I’ll have to plaster cast Kims belly for long term memories.

The Picture of the Year

Being an up and coming father, this was really amazing…

A picture began circulating in November. It should be “The Picture of the Year,” or perhaps, “Picture of the Decade.” It won’t be. In fact, unless you obtained a copy of the US paper which published it, you probably would never have seen it. The picture is that of a 21-week-old unborn baby named Samuel Alexander Armas, who is being operated on by surgeon named Joseph Bruner. The baby was diagnosed with spina bifida and would not survive if removed from his mother’s womb. Little Samuel’s mother, Julie Armas, is an obstetrics nurse in Atlanta. She knew of Dr. Bruner’s remarkable surgical procedure. Practicing at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, he performs these special operations while the baby is still in the womb.
During the procedure, the doctor removes the uterus via C-section and makes a small incision to operate on the baby. As Dr. Bruner completed the surgery on Samuel, the little guy reached his tiny, but fully developed hand through the incision and firmly grasped thesurgeon’s finger. Dr. Bruner was reported as saying that when his finger was grasped, it was the most emotional moment of his life, and that for an instant during the procedure he was just frozen, totally immobile.. The photograph captures this amazing event with perfect clarity. The editors titled the picture, “Hand of Hope.” The text explaining the picture begins, “The tiny hand of a newborn;21-week-old fetus emerges from the mother’s uterus to grasp the finger of Dr. Joseph Bruner as if thanking the doctor for the gift of life.” Little Samuel’s mother said they “wept for days” when they saw the picture. She said, “The photo reminds us pregnancy isn’t about disability or an illness, it’s about a little person.” Samuel was born in perfect health, the operation 100 percent successful. Now see the actual picture, and it is awesome…incredible….

“There are two ways to live your life.
One is as though nothing is a miracle.
The other is as though everything is a miracle.”

Albert Einstein

28 Week Baby Bump

She’s doing well folks, holding up her end of the bargin…. or something like that.
Kim’s has been getting her Braxton Hicks over the past few weeks and is now starting to get some Supa-pubic pains.
I think they just make up these words to make you feel sorry for them….
Only joking, Braxton Hicks are pains created when the uterus tightens and strengthens as it prepares itself for labour. And Kim has started getting these Supa-pubic pains which are proving to be a little (alot) uncomfortable. Until the next awesome photo, this has been a Hodge Baby News exclusive.