Daniel Coburn

As I mentioned in my catching up about my next child. We have had a lot of ups and downs with this pregnancy, from my wife’s health to the recent discovery that my son will have a Cleft lip and Palette. The cleft is a bi-lateral cleft which is the rarest form, and affect both sides of his lip, and with that there is about an 85% chance he has the palette as well. And one of the ultrasounds was pretty evident of that.

I’m a stats person so I live by numbers. The chance of getting the birth defect is .018% (no not 1.8% it’s .018%). So the chances of a nurse having experience with it are minimal, but fortunately we have Primary Children’s in Utah that are some of the best. With my wonderful wife, we’ve been studying what to expect.

1. 3.9 surgeries in the first 5 years. They will start at about 10 months
2. 66 Dr. appointments in the first 5 years.
3. 15% mortality rate in the first year because of other issues that might stem from this.

So what does it mean? Stress. Lots of it. The bottles cost $16 a piece and then last 15 feedings. Feeding the baby will be unique cause he won’t be able to suckle.

But good news it’s a boy, and yes we already have the name picked out

I haven’t done a movie review but felt like this one deserved one.

So Evan Baxter the news anchor that Bruce made a fool of in the first movie, runs for Congress and wins on the platform of changing the world.

They move to a BEAUTIFUL HUGE house and start all over. His wife and kids have a little prayer, the kids want to hike with their dad, and the wife wants their family to be closer. She suggests that if Evan wants to change the world he might need a little help…. So Evan says his prayer.

Things happen and sure enough God presents himself and gives Evan the task to build an ARK. Overall the reviews on this movie were not flattering, but I think they saw the movie for the wrong reason.

#1 It was funny
#2 It had a good message
#3 It was not offensive
#4 It had birds crapping on John Goodman (Not that John’s bad, but his character was a jerk)

The best item in the movie was God’s talk with Evan’s wife. She was leaving her husband cause of his “ARK” project, but “Al Mighty” there to save the day as a waiter. Evan’s wife told him about his husbands problems and about God, and the topic of prayer came up. The gist of it was, “If you prayer for God for more patience, does he give you patience, or does he give you opportunity to be more patient; if you ask for courage, does he make you courageous, or give you the chance to show courage; if you ask for time together as a family, does he put you together, or give you the opportunity to be together with things in your life”

So thumbs up, go see it! If you don’t like it sorry, if you do you can thank me

So I’ve been pretty quite lately, mostly because I didn’t have much I wanted to say in public. But here are a few quick things to catch people up.

Rule #1: Life kicks you when you’re down
Rule #2: Understand rule #1 and recover.

Car I’ve had since ‘94 a ‘95 Nissan Maxima broke down
It was the day after we discovered a purchase on EBay for kids furniture is going sour, the person dropped off the face of the earth, but when we bought they had 99%+ feedback and are now at 98.1% and “No longer registered” on ebay.
This followed finding out that our child has a bi-lateral cleft lip and more than likely a cleft pallet which will require several surgery’s starting at 10 months going to 8-9 years.