We are excited to welcome little Katie into our family!

Name: Katie Black
Date: Wednesday, December 14, 2011
Time: 1:14 am
Weight: 7 lbs 10 oz (3459 g)
Length: 21 inches (53 cm)
Apgar Score: 9

Mommy and Katie, about 25 minutes after she was born

In order to make our site more accessible to those of you that want to visit it using an iPad, iPhone, or other device that doesn’t support Flash, all of our videos from now on will be embedded using HTML5 with Flash as a fallback. This means that everybody should be able to view the videos, regardless of the device, OS, or browser you are using.

Also, I will embed the photos inline with the post content, with links to the full-res originals, so if you want to grab a photo for your screensaver or something, it will be super-easy to do.

Here’s a short clip of us having some fun outside as a family, with Tyler’s new toy. As you will see, Tyler’s becoming quite the little magician.

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Last week my brother Jason was flown out to Los Angeles to perform piano for a segment on the Ellen Degeneres show. You can get more info about him at his website, http://jasonlyleblack.com. Please share this video with family and friends!

We have a new addition to our family that we are very excited about! Here are some photos and video clips from the hospital, when he was less than 24 hours old!

Today we went to the doctor, and found out that we will be having a boy!! Laura’s due on January 22, and we are very excited. Looking at his parents, especially his father, I am sure he will be very calm, obedient, quiet, well-behaved, and reserved….. Now we just have to come up with a name. Suggestions are welcome.

After much frustration with the limitations inherent of free hosted blogging services, I’ve decided to buy our own domain, so I can setup and brand our blog how I want.

Among other things, now that I am fully in control of administration and hosting, I can embed custom flash videos, photo galleries, automatically send out push email notifications of new postings, and more. So enjoy the new goodness!

-Ryan