OmarraByrd IM Blog

In my haste to get to the hospital on the 20th(that was funny to me, cause we were in absolutely no hurry), I ran out of the house and of course, I forgot our camera. So, the pictures that you guys saw on the January 23rd post were ones that the professional photographer(my sister-in-law Rose Marie Guignard) took on the 20th & the 21st and sent to me in an email.

Well I contacted the photographer’s studio and they graciously allowed me to access their database(she brought the camera over for me to download the pictures on my computer) and borrow the photographs of the whole event. Their a very nice operation. I fully recommend their services. I have their number somewhere… anyway…

So here is the full unedited version(well sort of I took out all the gory c-section photos) straight from the editor’s office(that would be me).

Editor’s note: These video files are larger than the others, so they will take some time to load. Just give them a minute, trust me they are there! Part 1:

The Video 1

And here is Part 2:

The Video 2

Keep checking in for new photos and please register to the blog and leave comments. We love to hear from you guys who have posted already and would love to hear from those who have not!

May All Your Ventures Be Met With Success,

Omarra Byrd

Hello everybody! I thought that I would post some historic moments in Xavier’s life. Moments that he couldn’t even experience, but had a direct bearing on the creature comforts that he relishes right now.

It is a very fortunate thing to find yourself in association with great loving friends and family. My wife and I find ourselves in this very fortunate position. Most mother’s to be can consider themselves fortunate if they have one baby shower. Extremely fortunate if you can consider yourself friends with enough people that they have to spread your shower out for two separate occasions. My wife had three, I don’t even know what to call that.

Anyway, one of these showers was held at her job. I didn’t make that one, but I did make the other two. So with no further adieu…

A Tale of Two Showers:

The Video

Thanks to everyone that made those showers a possibility and to all who gave gifts or sent gifts if they couldn’t come personally. The love of all of our friends and family was greatly appreciated. Especially the diapers(and that’s only speaking from a week’s worth of experience)!

May All Your Ventures Be Met With Success,

Omarra Byrd

Hey everybody! Omarra Byrd here, welcoming everybody back to the blog and what has potentially turned into a site that is all about my son Xavier James Byrd. Which honestly, I have no problem with.

The only thing is, I built this site as an extension of my business and my main site BooksBonkers.Com. So, this blog was supposed to be all about Internet Marketing tips, information and recommendations. Eventually, I will begin posting posts that pertain to my business. At some point I will begin to shift the focus and as of right now that will tentatively be this Thursday.

Thursday because, that is the day that my wife and I plan on bringing our son out of the shelter of our home and into the world as we know it. This blog being utilized to display everything Xavier was started so that friends and family could feel a part of this whole process and not feel excluded and have to miss out on any of it.

Come Thursday, that will be needed much less. So, therefore, it will be utilized much less.

I also mentioned how my wife was such a trooper earlier. These photos show that the best. From the bruises that they left on her arm from trying to find a vein to put the IV in to the skin they pulled off her leg while simply removing some tape that had the catheter hose taped down to her leg! And oh yeah, there are some more pictures of our X-Man. Enjoy:

The Video

I hope you guys enjoyed the pictures and if you haven’t registered (you no longer need to register in order to leave a comment) to the blog yet, I’m hoping that you do so, so that you can leave some comments for me and my wife to read and enjoy.

There is a video posted that explains how to register (you no longer need to register in order to leave a comment) and it’s in the, “My Rant! / Blog Lesson!” post. Just watch that short video, register and then leave us some comments. We would really enjoy that. Well, until later…

May All Your Ventures Be Met With Success,

Omarra Byrd

Okay, once again we have another late post. I’ve been trying to catch my naps where I can and post pictures on here whenever Xavier will allow me a few brief minutes.

There will not be a bunch of text to read on today’s post but I will post two days worth of pictures.

Did anyone get a chance to look at the pictures that were posted online with Flickr in yesterday’s post? If you didn’t, please scroll down and click the link in the post that says “Xavier James Byrd”. It’s immediately after the video.

For those who have already taken a look, did you enjoy the comments? I hope so! Now just imagine how much Crystal and I would enjoy your comments. Please register (you no longer need to register to comment, if you are on the main page then just click on the comment link directly under the post that you want to comment on) and make some comments for her and I to enjoy.

Now on to video one, “Day 3″:

The Video

This was the arrival of Crystal and Xavier back home. “Oh Happy Day”! 

Now we have video two, “Day 4″:

The Video

Once again we have to thank everyone for their cards, calls and visits. It is greatly appreciated! Until tomorrow…

May All Your Ventures Be Met With Success,

Omarra Byrd

Well my couple of hours turned into more than that, but I am back now to load some more pictures to the sight of Xavier.

By the way, I have yet to give my wife, Crystal Denice Byrd, her proper accolades. My wife was a consummate trooper through this whole process. Unfortunately for her, she got a full 20 – 30 minutes of the normal child-bearing experience, complete with screaming, breathing and sheer torment, before the “Doctor” decided, “Maybe we’ll just cut you open and pull the baby out that way!”

Even now, as she sits upstairs with Xavier, she is still in pain from the very intrusive procedure!

My earlier mission to find her pain prescription of codeine was fruitless. So her throbbing pain is being medicated by over the counter Tylenol. Still she just grimaces and bears it! So a round of applause for my lovely wife and all of the child-bearing women out there who tend to go under appreciated and taken for granted at times.

Well enough of that, I ranted earlier. On to the pictures.

First their is a video presentation and then there is also a link to see the pictures online with added commentary by myself to each picture.

Enjoy them both and please feel free to post comments for me and my wife, it would be greatly appreciated!

The Video

And now the link for the pictures:

Xavier James Byrd

Once again enjoy, and…

May All Your Ventures Be Met With Success,

Omarra Byrd

Here are a few of the pictures that I promised! I tried. In fact I think I did a pretty good job, considering I’m a day early! Well, not exactly. I missed it by a couple of minutes.

Give me a break here. These pictures were originally stored as a Bitmap Image. You know that they take a long time to load as huge are they are. Then I had to convert it to a Jpeg Image just so that I could upload it to the Blog.

If not for that, I would have been a day early!

You have to Zoom in on that second image in order for it to have any significant impact. I find that to be just amazing!

For a full image, you have to click on the images. Then you can click on the image one more time to get an even larger view of the picture. In order to get a full image on the text links, you have to click on the link, then click on the image. Then, once again, you can click on the image one more time to get an even larger view of the picture.

Now if your squeamish at all, then you don’t want to click on any of the text links!

Going In!     We Got Him!    Now That’s A Big Baby!     It’s All Worth It!

I liked that more than I thought I would. Maybe I’ll add some more Wedding pictures besides the ones that are on the About page. Who knows? Until my next post…

May All Your Ventures Be Met With Success,

Omarra Byrd

If you have started a blog of your own then you well know that Hello world! is simply a default first entry for everyone who uses a WordPress blog. Well I kept that there because it is fitting to me and my current circumstances.

Yesterday at 7:05 PM my second son Xavier James Byrd proclaimed these exact same words! Well not exactly the same, but something to that effect! He came into the world weighing in at 7lbs 5ozs and 21 inches long. His coming into the world was an ordeal in itself.

To make a long story short my wife’s water broke on Sunday morning at about 10:00 AM. Yet, my son wasn’t delivered until Monday at 7:05 PM! You do the math on that one!

Anyway the Byrd & Harley clans are extremely excited, to say the least.

I hope to post some pictures tomorrow, but I make no promises! With back and forths to the hospital and making sure my first son, Omarra Hason Byrd, Jr., gets to school on time and back… well, you get the picture!

Until then…

May All Your Ventures Be Met With Success,

Omarra Byrd