Big news!

 Harrison Kruft was born yesterday!  Mom Ashley was in active labor for 25 hours, Grant said she was a trooper! Stats: born 5-28-21, 11:24am, 5 lb 13oz, 19.5”.  He is already nursing, doesn’t cry much, very alert. So that has been our life for the last 24 hours. We are immensely happy that everyone is doing well, all are healthy (except Ashley did test positive for Covid, no wonder she has been feeling so bad these last 2-3 weeks.  Guessing Grant has it too).  I am very sad to not be in Phoenix to see all of my family.  We are thinking about driving home next week and leaving the boat at the boatyard to have the repairs done.  So back in Boatland, there are a million flies, the weather is cold, rainy and windy.  We got a tour of the town from the only cab driver in town, it was pretty fast, it’s a small town.  Tomorrow we are going to the Crab Festival.  Looking forward to that.  Rat update.....we took the stove out and found a hole big enough for the rat to get through but not the sticky trap.  It had pulled off of the trap which was still there and full of long rat hair, yuck!! Hey, thanks for stopping by!

Videos of the rain storm and a slow motion shot of the bug zapper killing flies


Harrison Kruft

Harrison with Leslie and Jake in the corner of the screen


Can you see the sticky trap?

Grant’s hand to show scale of how tiny  Harrison is.

Just born

David removing the stove.

Grant’s thumb

Harrison loves the skin to skin contact

He has hair!

I’m hungry, I want to eat NOW!

Cousins, my favorite new nephew Kelly along side our new grandson Harrison.

 

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  1. JackieMay 29, 2021 at 11:00 PM

    Wow, those two babies look a lot alike. Love that DNA. The rat cracks me up. He has certainly controlled you two for a couple weeks now. Do you think all the other rats high-five him every
    time David has to take something else apart to search? Enjoy the Crab Fest.

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  2. UnknownMay 30, 2021 at 6:21 PM

    I hope you got the rat zapper so when you leave it is caught! Maybe the repair people can find it!
    Harrison is precious! I want to cuddle him~ I bet you cannot be near him until they are all well so
    take you time! Love you,
    Kitty

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