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 Todd made his appearance in the world on Monday, Mar. 29, 2021.  He weighed 8 lbs. exactly and was 20 inches long.  He is perfect!  Beautiful little chubby cheeks!   Crista had a great labor--it was relatively short, and Todd was anxious to come into the world.  Crista labored on her own, without pitocin, and only had to push twice!   Todd has quite a lot of hair. Grandma and grandpa got the fun job--we got to watch the girls Monday evening, Tuesday, and Wednesday morning.  They were great, as usual.  One of the best things that happened was--after getting Ruby and Greta down on Tuesday night, we were able to hold Bridget for an hour.  She was content just sitting on our laps.  The routine would have suggested that we put her down right after the other two--but she was just so cute and sweet we couldn't resist.  We would ask her if she was ready to go to bed and she'd say "no." So we'd say, "5 more minutes."  Bu...

  Finally, after a year plus of COVID paranoia, we felt that we could travel to Mexico.  We had planned on going in December, but the National Health organization said, "Don't travel to Mexico."  So, we stayed home and both of us got COVID (I have to say it was better to get it in the states than in Mexico--we might have gotten stuck there).  We scheduled another trip for the end of March, beginning of April--then we remembered we had a new grandbaby coming, so we rescheduled one week earlier.  We were excited to get out of dodge. We planned on being a bit early to the airport so that we could buy lunch to eat on the airplane and also avoid the stress of rushing.  Of course, that meant our flight would inevitably be delayed--as it was, by an hour or so.  We purchased our Cobb salads from Market Street then proceeded to wait.   I had also stashed one orange for me and Roy to share, and some grapes.   While waiting, I heard some lad...