28. September 2008 by Julie.

Julie has been bugging me to get some photos online.  I have posted some new photos on a Shutterfly site.   Checkout the link:  www.thetuckerfamilyonline.shutterfly.com   I have also placed a permanent link in the link section on the left.  Enjoy,.

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11. July 2008 by Julie.

Well, things are improving slowly with little Ryan.   His heart rate and breathing are stable and he is maintaining his temperature for long periods of time.   The removed his IV but he still has his feeding tube in place.  He is slowly eating more by mouth, but struggles sometimes to do everything at once (breath, suck, swollow, etc).   Things we all take for granted but I guess little ones need to learn.   Julie returns home today without Ryan, that will be quite strange.. but it should only be for a week or so.  We will manage.   Here’s another picture of Thomas holding Ryan..  enjoy

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8. July 2008 by Tom.

Much to our surprise, Julie went into labor yesterday afternoon and delivered a healthy baby boy at 8:01pm.  Ryan Thomas Tucker weighed in at 6lbs 11oz and was 19inches long.  He was 6weeks early, but so far is in good health.   He will spend some time in the NICU until they are sure everything is ok.   Mom is doing well and recovering from a C-Section, so she is in some pain but in great spirits.  Thomas is also very happy to be a big brother and said “this is the best birthday present I could ever get….”   He is 10 today, so their birthday’s will be a day apart.  

Julie should be able to come home on Friday, but Ryan may need to stay a bit longer.

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16. May 2008 by Tom.

Ok,  I built this site with a pretty standard “Blog” software.    The biggest difference is that everything keys off of “posts” to the blog.  Posts can only be written by site adminstrators (Julie or Me) at this time, but anyone can respond with comments to each post.   This is a bit different from the old site, but should work nicely.   Right now, I do not require a login to post a comment, but if things get out of hand with SPAM or innapropriate comments I might turn on this feature.   

 Also, if you are a bit more technical, check out the RSS feeds;  with this cool feature, posts and comments will automatically sent to your PC’s RSS reader (there’s one built into Internet Explorer).  

 I haven’t figured out how we will deal with photo galleries yet, but I’ll figure something out.

 I know it’s different than before, but I just don’t have the time to completely rebuild a custom site;  so please be patient.

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16. May 2008 by admin.

Folks, sorry for the long outage!   I built the site with a specific Microsoft feature that is no longer supported, therefore rendering the old site inoperable.   We have been so busy that I haven’t had a ton of time to spend rebuilding the site.  Julie has really missed posting for everyone, so I threw this one together quickly.    I hope it will work for now, until I can spend some real time putting something nice together. 

 Thanks for your patience

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