Jack’s Blog

All of the member of the Hill family on the day after Christmas.

The family descended on Greenwood on Christmas day. Sixteen folks in all were here to celebrate the day and to celebrate Jack’s arrival. As you can imagine the primary activity of the day was holding Jack, taking Jack’s pictures, talking about Jack, talking to Jack… Notice in the pictures that Grammy got that [...]

After a long night and a full day, I decided to attend the 5:30 pm Christmas Eve service at our church (Westminster Presbyterian). I took a couple of pictures of the boy with me and he was quite popular even though he wasn’t there. It sure was nice to be able to tell [...]

Since Jackson was doing so well, already eating, etc. The attending in charge of pediatrics (Dr. Gratin Smith) gave us the all clear to take Jack home after he was 24 hours old. So we loaded up in the car seat for the first time and headed out the door.

After Jack was born Lindsay was asked to move from the Labor and Delivery area of of the hospital over to one of the new rooms in the new patient tower. As the family was making it’s way down the hall (we were quite a procession of Lindsay in a wheelchair, Jack in the [...]

This is my favorite pictures of Jackson’s first day. After the family had gone and most of the flashbulbs had stopped Jackson had one more alert time before bed. I know it looks like he is looking right at me, but it could just as easily have been the fascinating glow of the [...]

The family who was in town for Jackson’s first day decided to head back to Atlanta on Friday evening. Of course they were coming back soon enough on Christmas day, but before they left we had to get a few more pictures of Jack…

This is Claire Duvall the wife of another of Lindsay’s classmates. She and her husband Alex were getting ready to leave town on their Christmas vacation, so she wanted to stop by and say hello to Jackson right away. As it turns out we created quite a stir in the Montgomery Center (Lindsay [...]

I’m glad there was good cell phone reception from this wing of the hospital. Even Lindsay got in on the action of calling people to spread the news. I think this is one of the phone calls to Aunt Anna Beth. I called several people early on Saturday morning only to find [...]

As you can imagine the family was pretty excited to see our boy. I will try to add a comment to this post at some point with the link to a video I took of all the high pitched voices of female family members talking on the phone, talking to Jack, and talking to [...]