Welcome to Lindsey's home page. Lindsey is an American baby girl, born recently in one of the many states that lie east of the Mississippi River. She makes her home in the state of her birth, and she lives with her mother, her father, her brother, and her cat.

During her calmer moments, Lindsey enjoys looking around the room, cuddling with her mother, slamming her head on her father's collarbone, and practicing her vocalizations. When fussiness strikes, she can be momentarily soothed by a round or two of something her parents like to call "Dooby Doot."

Life with Lindsey will capture, in words and pictures, some of the highlights of Lindsey's early years. Think of it as a kind of online baby book. It will also allow far off relatives and friends to keep up to date with the latest photos of Lindsey. And, judging by the response to her brother's web site, it will also entertain, confuse, and outrage thousands of strangers. (Really!) So please join us for what we expect will be a fun ride. We start modestly, with an account of Lindsey's birth, and some early photographs.

First photo! The first photograph ever taken of Lindsey, in the hospital just hours after her birth.

She was, perhaps, hearing some unfamiliar noises coming from outside the walls of her home. But Lindsey never paid much attention to those noises, and if they sounded a little bit different, she wasn't likely to have noticed. She was content to just slosh around in her amniotic fluid, enjoying the occasional surge of nutrients coming in through her umbilical cord.

At 8:12 a.m., everything changed. A surgeon's scalpel deftly sliced through her front wall, creating a strange doorway, and a brilliant, blinding light flooded her home. A tremendous pair of hands reached down and lifted her out of the only home that she had ever known, and Lindsey let out a small cry as air filled her lungs for the first time.

It was June 29, 2001 and the planet Earth, home to over six billion people, had yet one more citizen.

The first collective photograph of the newly enlarged family. Lindsey is the small bundle cradled in her father's right arm. The scowling little boy is Lindsey's brother Alex.

Lindsey was put on a little table, where she was examined by a nurse and a pediatrician. Minutes later, her father had tiptoed over to the table, having carefully avoided getting an accidental glimpse of the carnage on the operating table behind him. He gazed with a mixture of pride and wonder at the wiggly pink mammal who was his second child, and his first daughter.

Lindsey's mother, unfortunately, was unable to join her daughter and her husband at the examining table - she had a large incision in her abdomen that required immediate medical attention. But mother and child were destined to meet before long. On her way out of the operating room and into the nursery, Lindsey was able to stop and say a quick hello to her mother, who gave her new baby girl a kiss on her freshly cleansed head.