Mirror, Mirror on the Wall

The Grandthings Field and Izzy check themselves over.

Meeting the Field Grandthings

Iz meets Grandma and Grandpa Field for the first time. I'm not sure she was as impressed as they were.

Could I Be Any More Precious?

I Love My Grandpa

Sunday's Mean Fancy Clothes and Naps With Daddy

Izzy's First Trip to The House

Izzy made her first trip to The House today. She loved it.

She spend nine months there getting used to all the noise, so she felt right at home.

She loves her "Honey" Helen McCormick:

And her Uncle Ryan:


And Jessica:


And Miss Doris:

Izzy and Grandma Merrianne (and Sanka . . . of Course)

Grandma Merrianne and Isabella got along very well. More importantly, according to the four-legged, fury creature, Grandma let Sanka get some quality time with Izzy.

Papa Keith with His Granddaughter (and Granddogger)

Iz loves Papa Keith . . . he's comfy. Sanka always makes sure to get in on the action.

D-Lish

Isabella makes her first trip to the place with the best food in the state.

Reading from Izzy's Favorite Author

Daddy and Izzy read their first book together.

She's not as in to books as Chris had hoped.

Isabella-Button Makes Her First Trip to Church

First Father's Day

No man could be prouder.

Izzy Loved Her First Bath

It had to happen sooner or later. Poor Isabella had to have her first bath and get un-stinky. A you can see, she really appreciated our efforts. The nice thing is, we have lots of photos we can use to embarrass her when she's a teenager.

The Grandthings and Aunties Demand It

We've been told that we're not sharing nearly enough photos.

Hey, Dad

Izzy Comes to Occoquan

On Sunday, June 10, Izzy and Mom got to come home.

It was a beautiful day.

Welcome home, Isabella.

Your mom and dad have been prayerfully waiting for you to get here.

Daddy's Very Excited to Be Daddy

Welcome to the World, Isabella Jareé Field

Isabella Jareé Field arrived at 8:14pm, Friday, June 8, 2007.

She weighed in at 7 pounds, 13 ounces, and was 18 and 3/4 inches long.

Mom and baby are doing very well.

It's Time

Here's Jay at Potomac Hospital, ready to do her thing.

On Our Way to the Hospital

Well, here goes.

It's time to make our way to the hospital to start the process of introducing the world to Baby Field.

We'll try to load more info and pictures as soon as we can.

Tomorrow's the Day!

Looks like we'll be heading to the hospital tomorrow to bring Baby Field into the world.

Very exciting.

Stay tuned.

How Romney is Helping HillaryCare

(This post by Chris first appeared on HE's Right Angle.)

My friend Michael Cannon has a great piece on NRO today that reminds conservatives of why Mitt Romney's healthcare plan for Massachusetts is not something they should be praising and promoting as a reason to support Romney.

As he campaigns for the White House, Mitt Romney has had to tap dance around the health-care reforms he enacted while governor of Massachusetts. The first bit of bad news was that the plan’s cost was higher than predicted. Then it reneged on its commitment to cover the uninsured. But the latest bit of news about “RomneyCare” may require even fancier footwork.

The Left is now thanking Romney for making HillaryCare respectable again.

Those on the right who are promoting RomneyCare, including the Heritage Foundation, ought to think again. Their support of Romney's government planning undermines their conservative principles. More from Cannon:

...[T]he aspect of RomneyCare that most resembles HillaryCare is its very centerpiece, which Romney borrowed from the conservative Heritage Foundation: the health insurance "Connector."

Cohn is essentially correct. The objective of the "Connector" bureaucracy, as described by Heritage Foundation scholars, reads like an exercise in government planning. The "Connector" is supposed to "reorganize[e]…a large part of the state's private insurance system into a 'single market' structure with uniform rules and a central 'clearinghouse' for administering coverage."

Why, exactly, do we need a new layer of government bureaucracy to do these things? So we will have someplace to buy health insurance? We're getting along just fine without layering more bureaucracy on our auto insurance. In fact, we already have a connector for both health and auto insurance. It's called the Internet. Has anyone ever heard of eHealthInsurance.com?

Why do we need a "Connector" to tell health insurers what to sell and at what price? Those sorts of price controls and mandated benefits are exactly the kind of government planning that is making health insurance so unaffordable. Shouldn’t conservatives be trying to repeal those laws, instead of creating new bureaucracies that will propose, enforce, and defend them?