The Mouse Family Blog

Announcing Grace Antalya Mouse. 8 pounds, 10 ounces and 21 ½ inches tall. Born at 1:30 p.m. on Tuesday.

Liz and Grace are doing great. The delivery was very smooth and predictable – a welcome blessing compared to Lauren’s arrival. So now we’re all just relaxing here at the fancy new Prentice Hospital till Friday.

About Antalya (Ann-Tall-Yuh): Grace’s middle name comes from a region on the Mediterranean coast of Turkey, where Liz and I were traveling when we discovered we were pregnant. Antalya is the capital city of the province by the same name. The city was visited by the Apostle Paul on his journeys and is listed in Acts 14:25-26 (Attalia). The region got its name when King Attalos II, who ordered his men to find “Heaven on Earth.” After an extensive search, they discovered the region and named it Attaleia, which later became Antalya. For more information, check out Wikipedia.

Lauren, Clark, and Ann all had a chance to meet Grace today. There’s some great video, but we’ll need time to edit it.

In other news, we sold our condo in Wicker Park and the inspection finished today, so it should be clear sailing as long as the buyer doesn't really expect us to replace a hot water heater that "should only last 10 years" but still works perfectly. As we were headed to delivery, we put an offer on a house in Lincoln Square, a family-friendly neighborhood a little north of Wicker Park. Negotiations will take a while, but we’ll update you on that later in the week. If this house doesn’t work out, we have two others on our list, thanks to a mad dash of home tours this weekend before Liz’s period of bed rest.

Praise God, for He is good.