Kiara's Birthday Countdown
Can you name athletes that wore every number?

 Most of the pictures were taken by Noriko. I was just the holder of Kiara.

Welcome to Labor & Delivery
This is just a glimpse of my surroundings at Labor & Delivery at Kaiser West LA.

I had to take this picture!

The last Labor & Delivery Room that was available that night. #packedhouse

This was suppose to be the baby warmer for Kiara...change of plans after 24 hours!

My trooper on enough pain meds to communicate with the outside world.

GO DUCKS!!!

I was craving Carl's Jr. all day...thanks Pam!!!

This was my bed for the 24 hours in LDRP8.

Sitting on the exercise ball next to Noriko.

I was so nervous about the delivery of Kiara that I could barely relax and watch the Final 4 semis.

She's not just my wife...she's my baby mama!!!

This post is dedicated to Noriko. When I decided to start this blog, I told myself that it'd only be photos. This post will be the anomaly. Noriko has endured so much before the pregnancy, during the pregancy from morning sickness to heartburn to Kiara kicking like she's doing P90X Kenpo X to the 24 hours of labor and the crazy delivery. I'm not the writer in the family so I'm not going to attempt a poem or a song, nor am I a painter so there'll be no mural or painting of her, so here's my attempt to thank her...I couldn't have asked for a better wife, BFF, baby mama and teammate!!!

Thank you Noriko!!!

Love D!!!

Noriko in October at Stephany and Ryan's wedding...4 months pregnant.

Disneyland in November...5 months.

New Year's Eve at the Kirkpatrick's...7 months.

2012 Rose Bowl...GO DUCKS!!!...7 months

Baby Moon on the Big Island during Winter Break...still 7 months.

One of many baby showers in February...8 months.

Walking into Kaiser about to get admitted for Labor & Delivery...minutes from gametime!!!

Recovering from giving birth to our beautiful baby girl...1 day after.

Going on our first walk as a family of 4...4 days after (@ScoutTheBeast is not pictured).