Introductions are necessary...

I got a call at 4:30 yesterday afternoon at work from Sheila...essentially saying "It's TIME..." Thankfully, by God's grace, work is now only 15-20 minutes away. By 6:00 we were at the hospital, Silas was in the care of our very good friends - Garrett and Rachel Swasey - and contractions were on their way. The hospital is brand new (it opened a month ago) and the birthing suites are ENORMOUS... what's even better is that the beds for Dads are actual beds. The couch in the post-delivery room opens to a full size bed - SO MUCH BETTER than our last experience.

Anyway, at 1:10 am God blessed us with another baby boy, Nathanael Kinnick Aichele. Sheila definitely knows how to grow em... he was 8 lbs. 8.5 oz. and 20.5 inches long.













For those who may not know... Nathanael mean "gift of God"... and Nathan means "God has given". Did you catch how big he is? Sheila made every effort to deliver naturally, however, with a guy that big, there was NO WAY that it was going to happen, so she did have a C-Section. As a whole, he is a HEALTHY boy.

Sheila is recovering well, and as I type, Nathan is in his mama's arms. We've got to get him back to the nursery in a hour and a half for additional testing.