Team Wendorf Report

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Wednesday morning at 12:30am April 29th the incredible Kristina Wendorf gave birth to our fourth child; a boy officially named Axel.

Some of you may remember that Team Wendorf Report kicked off 3 years ago with a post titled ‘Welcome Kai, this is your life!‘ announcing the birth of our second child, first son, Kai Atticus.

And some of you may remember that Team Wendorf Report followed up a year and half later with a post titled ‘Welcome Otto, this is your life!‘ announcing the birth of our third child, second son, Otto Adoniram.

Axel came pretty much right on time, but due to a prolapsed umbilical cord our beloved midwife Charlotte Geddis sent us to a hospital for an emergency c-section. Axel and Kristina spent a few days recovering at a wonderful hospital in Everett and are now at home.

We are very grateful to God for our fourth child and are continually amazed by His grace and love for us.

Kristina is doing well considering the nature of childbirth by c-section and Axel is doing great too. Lucia, Kai and Otto spent the day with their ‘Aunt’ Mandi and apparently had a great time. Jason is still counting his blessings in that, at this point, he still has only one wedding that he will have to pay for in his future.

Much thanks to everyone who has been praying for us. The evidence of God’s kindness is amazing.

More info soon…

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Seattle received a healthy dose of the white stuff yesterday. In Seattle, snow causes societal breakdown on a sliding scale:

• snow prediction = grocery run on local stores
• 0-1 inches = schools cancelled, tire chains installed, local news anchors suit up in goretex.
• 2-3 inches = people leave their cars in the middle of the freeway and wander aimlessly.
• 3-5 inches = all work stops. Local news creates storm logo and theme music.
• 6+ inches = cannibalism

So in case we are eaten by our rabid neighbors, consider this Team Wendorf’s farewell post. Pictures of the devastation can be seen at our photos.

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Team Wendorf has been running silent and deep the last six months, but decided to come topside to share the latest scuttlebutt and air out our poopy suits. For the tens of readers we may have here is our report:

• Item 1: We have 3 kids
• Item 2: Kristina is with child four, due in May
• Item 3: Battle Cat now lives with us
• Item 4: Jason is working at Microsoft
• Item 5: We bought a Eurovan, which is a minivan that doesn’t bathe regularly and smokes tiny, filterless cigarettes
• Item 6: Otto turned 1
• Item 7: We go to church at Mars Hill Church Downtown

Ok, looks like its angles and dangles time. till we surface again… DGUTS!

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Recently I decided that our family needed a fire escape plan, particularly because we all sleep on the second floor. I bought a few hundred dollars worth of equipment but it has just been sitting, so I decided that the next step was to write up a simple project plan that included steps for what we still need to accomplish to be prepared.

I of course wrote this in all seriousness even though I included a few humorous items in the plan, but Kristina felt that the entire thing was funny. So funny in fact that she was doubled over in laughter about the whole thing. So much for trying to apply project planning to family goals.

Here’s what Team Wendorf will do in case of fire:

Equipment Available:

* Two fire masks – one kept under each side of the parents bed
* Two fire blankets – both kept handy in master bedroom
* one fire ladder – kept in Kai’s room

If we are awoken by fire during the night we will do the following:

* pee pants
* put on fire masks
* Kristina wraps Otto (and self if necessary) in fire blanket
* Kristina takes Otto to Lucias room
* Kristina takes Otto and Lucia out window onto porch roof
* Jason takes fire blanket and goes to kai’s room (wraps self in blanket if necessary)
* Jason puts ladder out window
* Jason carries Kai down ladder to yard
* Jason helps Kristina, Otto and Lucia off of porch roof
* Jason rushes into flaming building to save Russel (our basement renter)

What we need to do:

* learn how to use ladder
* learn how to use fire masks
* possibly buy one or two more fire blankets (to keep in kids rooms)
* possibly buy one more fire ladder for master bedroom as alternative escape option
* pray we never have to deal with this

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We had a rare treat/annoyance a few weeks ago. We got quite a bit of snow in the Seattle area, which is uncommon. The conditions have to be just right; usually a snowstorm followed by dry, cold air. The snow has to stick and then not be followed by rain, which is usually the case when it snows in Seattle.

(for more info about Seattle weather check Steve Pool’s awesome weather resource at the humbly titled www.stevepool.com)

The annoyance was getting stuck on our own street. We live on a steep hill that crests about 20 yards south of us, and gets steeper for about a quarter mile to north of us. After the initial snow the roads were fine at the crest of our hill, but in front of our house and down the hill was a solid sheet of ice, about an inch thick. We were literally stuck for almost a week because our front wheel and rear wheel drive cars couldn’t make it the 20 yards to the crest, and going down hill to the next main street was a quarter mile bobsled run littered with cars in ditches left by the brave and idiotic.

The treat was the beauty of the snow, which was stunning the next day as the sun came out (which we hadn’t seen for quite a few months). We took the kids out in the snow, which they didn’t really know what to do with, but it was fun anyway. I shot a video of the snow and the kids using the dv camera we got for Christmas (thanks mom and dad). I then threw a short video together using the automatic movie creation tool in Windows movie maker which, as it turns out, is a nifty little program.

btw, I know that the intro to the video says ‘Snow Day 2006′, but in reality it was 2007, so shut up.

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Just to make things official for those of you who don’t know, Kai’s middle name is Atticus. Yes, it is taken from the character Atticus Finch in To Kill A Mockingbird. I’ll explain more about that choice in a later post.

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