Back into the Fray

September 7 brought drizzly rainy weather and a new member to the family.  After a last minute name change following prolonged probing of Cristin’s spine with a needle, Elise “Ellie” Howley Cowles was born.  She is beautiful but I am biased.  She dazzled everybody with an impressive meconium blowout and later expressed distaste in a similar manner when Cristin’s decided to watch “Keeping up with the Kardashians” rather than sleep.   The showdown with her older sister is still four days away so we are trying to beef her up as much as possible in meantime.