Meeting Will, April 16-19, 1998
 
Thursday, April 16
 
Sister Jan and Matt, in Raleigh, welcomed Will into the world on Wednesday, April 15. I drove there from Charlotte the next day...
 
april_1998_01.jpg (145247 bytes) april_1998_02.jpg (111641 bytes) Along the way I observed emus, a Ford Mustang on a 40 foot pole, and a row of old trucks...
 
april_1998_04.jpg (123236 bytes) april_1998_05.jpg (78481 bytes) At Carina's home in Durham...
 
Friday, April 17
 
april_1998_06.jpg (95554 bytes) Raleigh...
  
april_1998_07.jpg (92714 bytes) april_1998_08.jpg (62829 bytes) Carina (with the George Jones hat) and Andrea...
 
april_1998_09.jpg (85393 bytes) april_1998_10.jpg (90369 bytes) april_1998_11.jpg (66086 bytes) april_1998_12.jpg (77383 bytes) At the hospital in Raleigh where Baby Will came into the world...
 
april_1998_13.jpg (124142 bytes) april_1998_14.jpg (103313 bytes) Sister Jan, my brother-n-law Matt, and Baby Will...
 
april_1998_15.jpg (83339 bytes) april_1998_16.jpg (58847 bytes) Mother and Father... proud grandparents...
 
april_1998_17.jpg (102556 bytes) april_1998_18.jpg (92490 bytes) Baby Will grabs a little shut-eye. Will seemed possesed of keen inteligence and even temperment, and was about the most handsome baby I had ever seen...
 
april_1998_19.jpg (93834 bytes) april_1998_20.jpg (81457 bytes) april_1998_21.jpg (63639 bytes) Leaving the hospital..
 
Saturday, April 18
 
april_1998_22.jpg (209317 bytes) april_1998_23.jpg (160548 bytes) Visiting at Sister Jan's, Matt's, and Will's home in Raleigh...
 
april_1998_24.jpg (92819 bytes) april_1998_25.jpg (82683 bytes) april_1998_26.jpg (74541 bytes) Sister Jan reviewing video of recent events...
 
april_1998_27.jpg (63220 bytes) Jill Farrell was on hand...
 
april_1998_28.jpg (83400 bytes) In the evening Carina and I went to see Titanic in Raleigh. In this scene the ill-fated ship seemed to be crashing into Carina's big head...
 
april_1998_29.jpg (139046 bytes) april_1998_30.jpg (110982 bytes) april_1998_31.jpg (117629 bytes) Upon returning to Carina's house in Durham...
 
Sunday, April 19
 
april_1998_32.jpg (138685 bytes) april_1998_33.jpg (111815 bytes) april_1998_34.jpg (75057 bytes) Morning coffee at Carina's place...
 
april_1998_35.jpg (104205 bytes) Ward Underwood dropped by...