Let's welcome another Walker to the world!!!

The world just got a little brighter last week when it welcomed young master Owen Nicholas Walker to the world. He was born on 4/10/2007, weighing 8 pounds and measuring in at 20.1 inches long!

You can find more pictures here.

Congratulations to Jared and Leah for yet another job well done! We wish all of the Walkers (including little but big Alton) all the best on their newest addition!!!

We have also finally met Alton!!

We had been planning to get together with the Walkers at some point this week for a gift exchange and, more importantly, to also get to meet young Alton for the first time. What we had not counted on was a call from Jared asking if we were available and (upon confirmation) finding out that they were only 10 minutes away...

After 15 minutes of frenzied gift-wrapping, we were finally ready.

For those of you that have known Jared a while, you will recall that he has always been a big boy. Alton Gregory Walker certainly takes after his father in this regard. He is precocious and quite even tempered, but the most obvious thing about him is his size. In particular, after living in Taiwan for the past 14 months and seeing the relatively smaller babies out there, Alton looked more like a 4-year old than a 17-month old.

Alton is a sweet kid, likes to go give high-fives, and absolutely adores Clovis (our little parrotlet). I felt as though I had met him before after seeing all the pictures, but it was definitely much better to finally get to meet him in person.

We finally met Milo!

We met Milo today for the first time, and he really is a fantastically cute little boy. It is fascinating because he looks more like mommy from most angles, but more like daddy at some others.

We got to see a few baby pictures of Christy from when she was about the same age - had we not known that it was Christy, we would have both sworn it was Milo.

Milo is a boy of a thousand faces (most of them are happy, all of them are cute) so the only real answer is to actually meet him in person.

Baby Boy Jones

I just had to post something about the fact that Baby Boy Jones (AKA Andre Milo) came into the world this past Sunday, 10/29! We're so happy for the Joneseses and wanted to welcome little Milo to the world!

Ernest Visits

Our good friend Ernest happened to be passing through Taiwan on a business trip, so we were able to take him out to see the sights and sounds of Taipei. We tried to cram as much as we could into the day or so that we had, so we visited the Shih Lin night market, Sun Yet Sun Memorial, Chiang Kai Shek Memorial, and a few places in between. It's always great to have friends over, even if it is only for a short amount of time.