Version 1.5.1 18Dec2005

Note: Roy has divorced Kerry, but has decided not to change these pages.  

 

Roy and Kerry posing for a self-proclaimed professional photographer. Kerry is originally from Toledo, Ohio, and was working as a GeoCities webgoddess in Marina Del Rey, California when Roy met her.

When Kerry met Roy, he was playing with cars again, this time at Dan Gurney's All American Racers in Santa Ana, California.

Wedding party, right-to-left: Sue Peake (Roy's mom), Jane McFetridge (Kerry's mom), Kerry, Judy Fowler (Roy's aunt), Elizabeth Fowler (Judy's grand- daughter), Michelle Wulfson (Maid of Honor).

7-month old Sloan Douglas Gardner peering into his crystal ball, from which he has divined all the secrets to happiness and long life for the whole world, hence his pleased expression!

For Christmas 2000, Sloan gave Daddy automotive tins of cookies and candy. That's Roy's twin brother Dave hiding behind the little tricycle motor.

Sloan posing at another pro photog's set with classic sport props. Sloan received his middle name from his stepgrandfather Douglas Peake, a lifelong baseball player who once qualified for a triple A team.

Sloan reading a book to Kerry. An old book. Roy is determined that his first words will be "Pieces of eight, awwwwk!", but cookie crumbler insists on saying "Mama" and "Dada" instead.

   Some kids are born with a silver spoon in their mouth. Sloan was born with a six-pack ring around his neck. Al Gore wants him to be his anti-littering poster boy.

   The hospital had the latest human centrifuge for assisting birth, a 2-level affair with the public gallery above the plane of rotation, eliminating the need for hockey rink-strength windows and their constant cleaning. Reminds me of the spin-the-bottle game. We could have elected to use their hyperbaric chamber, but decided that explosive decompression was a little TOO fast. They're both better than the queen-size laundry mangle they replaced, though.

   The hospital had a very efficient pneumatic tube package delivery system for speeding swaddled infants from one department to another. It's great watching their wide-eyed little faces as they whiz through the transparent tubes.

   Sloan's cute little head is so small I can push a Q-Tip in one ear and pull it out the other. For myself, I have to use a chopstick. It was fun playing keepaway with the nurse, tossing Sloan over Kerry's head!

   I've developed a politically correct way of stopping Sloan's inevitable crying. Acupuncture. Works great.

   Sloan's at the age now where he's biting while nursing. Also, he can roll over on his own. It occurs to me he can now feed like a crocodile: Clamp down and spin.


Links to Kerry's baby pages:

Growth Spurts   Sloan's progress and stats.
Homestead New Arrival   Not much here yet.


And don't forget Bruce Amos's Mr. Mom Software


If you'd like to see more, go to Gardner family photo album page two.