And then there were five… (The story of Claire’s birth)

The set-up When Sarah was about 20 weeks along with this baby, she began to lobby for us to not find out what the gender was until the baby was actually born.  After all, she figured, we could be surprised by learning if it was a boy or a girl at 20 weeks, or at […]

Posted by Curtis Gibby on September 15th, 2010

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Early-morning musings of a 9-month-old

Based on real events of the morning of Nov. 1, 2008 What’s this? I’m awake all of a sudden.   Judging by how dark it still is, probably about 4:30 in the morning.   So long as I’m up, the rest of the family might as well be.   Let’s start wailing to see if […]

Posted by Curtis Gibby on November 1st, 2008

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PUTTIN’ ON THE RITZ!

My family’s always had an affinity for the film Young Frankenstein — we’d always get a laugh by saying “What knockers!   Oh, thank you!” or “Frau Blucher {horse whinny}”.   I even caught myself mentally referring to a kid dressed up like Frankenstein’s Monster as a “little zipper-neck” at our ward party the other […]

Posted by Curtis Gibby on October 27th, 2008

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Baby update

You’ve all been asking yourselves, “Where’s our 7 and a half month old update on Nathan Gibby?”   Right here, that’s where. Nathan has become a very busy baby.   He got into the commando scoot about a month ago, but now he’s full-on into crawling, and he’ll go anywhere in the room if you […]

Posted by Curtis Gibby on September 5th, 2008

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And baby makes four

This morning Sarah woke up at 2:15 with pretty strong contractions. She got me up soon after, and we called for Becca (her sister and doula) to come help with the labor. We looked out the window and saw that it had snowed quite a bit overnight, so the roads were pretty bad. Becca and […]

Posted by Curtis Gibby on January 21st, 2008

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You Gotta Love It, Baby

I got the chance to laugh at Sarah the other day while we were tossing around names for Baby Brother. (A few weeks ago, we were pretty much settled on Nathan, but we’ve since backed off it.) Our neighbors have a son named Stockton (after Utah Jazz great John Stockton), so Sarah said, “We could […]

Posted by Curtis Gibby on January 12th, 2008

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Baby announcement! (Oh boy!)

We’ve got a big announcement for everyone! We’re happy to tell you that we’re expecting a little boy — at our ultrasound today the tech told us that Sarah’s probably due at the end of January 2008. It took them a while to officially determine the gender, but we’re pretty confident in the results — […]

Posted by Curtis Gibby on September 5th, 2007

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A First for Audrey

This week, Sarah and I went to the temple for the first time since Audrey was born. That meant that Audrey had to stay with a babysitter for the first time. We left her with one of Sarah’s very reliable Young Women and told her to feed Audrey a bottle with formula. When we got […]

Posted by Curtis Gibby on August 21st, 2005

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Baby Blessing Day

Here are a couple of pictures from yesterday, when we blessed Audrey. Everything went really well at the blessing. Both of Sarah and Curtis’ families were able to attend, and the blessing talked about growing old and finding a companion that would help her grow strong in the gospel, as well as how much we’d […]

Posted by Curtis Gibby on August 8th, 2005

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I’m a dad!

Judy (Sarah’s mom) summarized everything really well in her email to the family, so I’ve slightly edited it so it comes from my voice and not hers, but this is mostly her writing: — Late Monday night, Sarah went into labor and after a long and difficult day, she delivered a beautiful baby girl. Audrey […]

Posted by Curtis Gibby on July 18th, 2005

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