Baby Booth is born!

I'm way behind in posting to the blog and much has happened since the last one. Before diving into UK trip photos, I wanted to post a few of the new little grandson. Robert Alexander Booth was born on September 25th! He weighed in at 8# 5 oz. and was 20 inches long. He looks a lot like Alex... or more like Alex's brother and youngest sister right now. He's a heftier baby than his dad was, however... more like Kristine when she was born. He seems to be doing well and mom is extremely sleep deprived. I hope that will get better for her in the next month. He should start sleeping longer at night by then.

We'd visited Kristine the week before I left on the trip and I'd hoped the baby would make an appearance a week earlier than her due date... but he came 5 days after, when he was ready. While walking back to our Edinburgh hotel at the end of our first full day there, one of the gals in the group commented that maybe my daughter had had her baby and I'd honestly not had a moment to think about it until then. They had us up EARLY after a long day before and on a rigid schedule... visiting Holyrood Palace, the Edinburgh Castle, Rosslyn Chapel (used for some of The DaVinci Code movie) and walking about the city in the evening after eating. We were dizzy with tiredness and jet lagged. I decided it would be good to take time to check on the lobby computer, so fed in a pound and managed to navigate to her blog, despite the funky keyboard (they were a slightly different layout than here). First thing to load up was the picture above. =:D I blurted out, "She had the baby!!!" and a couple minutes later, after I'd read the whole post, an American gal approached from behind (she'd been waiting) to offer her congratulations. :-) She could relate, having grandchildren of her own.

Here are a few more photos Kristine has taken in the last two weeks... (in order):

This last one was taken yesterday morning. He has such an expressive little face. :-) We're leaving on Sunday for a short trip to Utah and Idaho... and will get to meet the little guy in person, as well as seeing Diane, Karen and Niklas in Rexburg.

Meanwhile... the jet lag is still wearing off and there has been lots to do this week before leaving again. I'll post pictures from the trip as there is time to go through and pick out the better ones. There are about 3,000 to deal with, but many are terrible shots taken from a moving coach (bus). ;-)

Hope all are well... more later...