Dear Joanna,

This is your father. Your mother and I are waiting in the Labor & Delivery ward at El Camino Hospital in Mountain View, California. It's 11:15 am, and if all goes well, we only have a few more hours to go before we can finally meet you!

It's an amazing time right now, not knowing anything about you and poised right on the edge of this great big journey that we're all about to go on together.

Well, we do know two things about you.

1. You are almost certainly smaller than your big sister Ellie was at birth! She was "9 pounds, 10 ouches" according to your Mama.

2. Whenever Mama stops moving around (like when she goes to bed at night), it's suddenly party time for you! You don't kick as much or as hard as Ellie did, but you sure like to swish around a lot!

I can't wait to learn items number three through 1,000.

Mama's got her IV in now and we're just sitting here, listening to the sound of your heart beating on a little speaker. Mama is hungry.

Love,
Daddy