Well, this was supposed to be my first week working at Evanston Northwestern Healthcare as their new Director, Business Development. On Sunday night, I was getting all ready to attend their new employee orientation on Monday morning.

The only problem was that this little guy had other plans.

Monday morning around 2:30AM the bag of water was officially "unzipped," preventing me from going to work. Instead, I traded my hospital administrator role in to be a patient. Timothy Chen was born June 12, 2006 at 11:45PM. Our first child. 6 lbs.

And given that my wife is an OB-GYN, it was extra special/funny/weird/great to be an OB patient. Just imagine your boss delivering your baby, only that it's completely no big deal.

I'll be taking some time to get used to my new role - both at home and at work. I'll continue to blog, but probably a bit less. Any and all parenting advice is welcome!