Welcome to Earth Lincoln!

Hello family and friends. We would like to announce the birth of our second son, Lincoln Guy Harrison! This cute little guy (pun) was born on January 27th after only 3 and a half hours of labor. His stats are as follows:

Weight: 7 lbs 3 0z (keep in mind Krista only gained 13 lbs total)
Length: 20 in
Birthday: January 27, 2009
Birth Time: 10:35 am
Head Circumference: 13 in
Finger Count: 10
Toe Count: 10
Cute Button Nose: Check

And here he is.


Now I know what you're thinking. "Hey, isn't that Parker?" But alas, it is not. This is Lincoln. Look for a game on this blog in the next few weeks entitled "Who Am I?" in honor of the Jackie Chan movie "Wo shi shei?" (translation: who am I?). You can try your skills of telling the two apart after we take a few pictures with Lincoln in Parker's old clothes.

Here is Krista checking to make sure that Lincoln is adequately kissable.


And finally, here is our latest family picture. Notice how happy Parker is to have a new baby brother. Life is good at the Harrison House. Take care all of you. We love you.


Oh and incidentally, Rachel won our baby guessing contest with a total score of 88 points. Some of you might now be thinking that she only won because she picked Lincoln's name correctly (actually she gave us the idea of using the name in the first place), but this is not so. Rachel pretty well dominated the competition across the board. Note the accuracy of her guess:

Name: Lincoln W. Harrison
Weight: 7 lbs 2 oz (off by one ounce)
Length: 20 in (right on)
Date: 01/26/2009 (off by one day)
Time: 10:08 am (off by 27 minutes)

Honorable mentions are given to the second and third place winners as well, although a prize is only given to the first place winner. In second place with a total of 75 points was Nanette Combe, proud grandmother of Lincoln. Third place went to Lincoln's cousin Logan Fry with a total of 72.5 points.

Jake Merkley, one of Lincoln's adopted uncles, actually scored 84.5 points, although his guess came in exactly 18 minutes before the birth and he was promptly disqualified according to the "24 hour" rule. Krista, beautiful, brave, and brilliant mother of Lincoln, scored 76.5 points and yet was also disqualified due to the "parents cannot be winners" rule. (I was also disqualified by the same rule, but this did not affect the winners.)

Scores were calculated using the K&W factor equation published in Harrison et al. [1].