Easter Pics

It was an early morning with mass at 7:45 and sleeping little between 1 and 5 a.m.  That meant both LL and I were pretty beat when headed out to Naperville to see my folks. Somehow we caught our second wind though and had a very nice day. Little Marissa was introduced to her auntie Bee and uncle Ray for the first time. Marissa was born on the day that auntie Bee started her new job, so it was a very good day for Bee!

Aunt Lori holding a very happy baby.

Bee holding Marissa. It was a tentative situation at best at first, but they both seemed to settle in after a few minutes.

Grandma Sutton holding a very sleepy Marissa.

And grandpa Sutton doing the same!

First Easter cake for Marissa!! It was pretty tasty too.
















Naperville Greg came through with a replacement hinge, which I installed yesterday. The last piece of the puzzle in the baby's room.

Happy Easter!!

Today, Saturday, was a bad day for Jesus' disciples. They had abandon their lives, their jobs, their wealth and invested themselves in a man they thought was the messiah. And he had just been crucified by the Roman Prefect under pressure from their own people and high priests. They sat inside and wondered what was going to happen to them next. I don't know about you, but I couldn't even imagine the type of disappointment or dismay or utter devastation they felt. After I left Morningstar due to some management changes that left people in charge who had low morality, little professionalism and bad character, I couldn't work for two years. It was a highly emotional and deeply disappointing time for me, but I'm sure it was nowhere near what the disciples felt on this day.

Thankfully for them, Sunday came and restored hope! Happy Easter everyone!!

2 week old pictures

Here are some more pictures. Our little delight is now 2 weeks old and is weighing in at 7 lbs 8 oz, healthily higher than her birth weight of 6 lbs 12 oz. Good stuff! She's very healthy and though it means little at this point, she's solidly in the 50 percentile of length, weight...maybe something else...oh, head size. Like I said, doesn't mean much.

You'll notice the pacifier in the last picture. Coincidentally, this was the first day that she tolerated it at all. Normally she would just spit it out. The doctor asked if she was taking to it all, so I guess it was time!

Happy Birthday to me!

I'm off to celebrate at the bar with Markakis and Bill the Bear....and some NCAA basketball. Here are some pics! Thanks to Joisey Ken for the cute shirt and matching onesy!

Week 1 complete!

Lots going on these past few days...all baby related as you might expect. In fact, I'd anticipate this theme to continue for the foreseeable future.

Our "routine" is somewhat interesting as it's a little nuts. We stay up until almost midnight (or a bit later) and then try to get some sleep before a 3 a.m. feeding. Sometimes I get up to cuddle Marissa if she's fidgety. Then LL tries to get some sleep between 4-6 or 7 before the next feeding. I sleep most of this time and get up around 8 or 9. We have a (now) late breakfast, late lunch, late dinner, stay up til midnight again, rinse, repeat. Yesterday I was able to hit the gym and tomorrow I have a business meeting, but for the most part, it's just a rotation of the above.

Today I broke out the Moby and carried the baby while LL slept. It was pretty nice as Marissa was on my chest while I worked on the computer. The Moby gives the term hands free device a decidedly low tech but very useful meaning!

Now for some pics!

Busy, sleepy, eatey days

Okay, this post is a few days late. Sorry! It's been an eventful couple of days as you might imagine. Learning lots of new things, cooking for LL so she can focus on Marissa, entertaining visitors, and taking pictures....ooohhhh the pictures. LL's mother has been staying with us and helping on all fronts whether it be taking care of Marissa or Molly, our dog. But she's a bit of a shutterbug, so you not only have to be constantly aware that a camera is present, but you need to make time for pictures as well. Last night I slept for 9 hours though, so I can put up with some pictures!

Yeah, 9 hours. I think I finally caught up from being in the hospital. LL has been getting some 90 minute to 2 hour naps during the day and about the same at night, if not a bit longer. Marissa has been sleeping 3-4 hours at night, so that's a good start. We've been working on keeping her up more during the day so she'll sleep more at night. It's a process.

Ricardo and wife Jodi came over last night and we brought in sushi from Mini and Eric's restaurant, Rollapalooza. The food traveled down the street very well. We had a fun time and downed some wine. Good stuff. Then tonight, my buddy Joe D. (who came down to the wedding in Puerto Rico) and his wife who just had a baby themselves, bought us dinner from Sapori Trattoria, our favorite Italian place. It was delicious AND we have leftovers for tomorrow.

On Friday my sister Lori and bro-in-law Steve were downtown for a doctor's appointment so they came by for a visit as well. They brought MORE food for us including cupcakes and stuffed peppers (from my mom). Awesome stuff!

So it's been a busy few days with lots of naps during the day and lots of eating (I made crepes two days for breakfast and they are coming tomorrow as well!).  It's all good though. Now for the REAL reason you came by my blog today:

The last one is my favorite picture so far!

Welcome Home Marissa Ann Sutton!

Sunday night at 8:00, my buddy Nick (aka Markakis) picked us up in his friend's SUV and drove us to Prentice at Northwestern Hospital for our induction. A special thanks to Markakis as I completely forgot that he bought a new, smaller car in the Fall when I called him to see if he'd give us a ride. He gladly accepted the challenge and borrowed his buddy's car. Very nicely done!

We checked in around 8:30 and made it up to our first of two rooms relatively quickly. Around 10:00 or so, they started the induction process which started with a Cervix Ripening Balloon (CRB) and a low dose of pitocin. Upon arrival, LL was only about 1.5 cm's dilated....barely dilated at all. Around 2:50 a.m., the CRB had fallen out on its own after having done its job of getting LL to 4.5 cm's.  So they broke her bag of water and increased the pitocin level.

Around 5:30, they administered the epidural as the contractions which started around 3 a.m., were getting a little rough. By 10:30, LL was still only 6 cm's and was feeling nauseous. After we got that under control, I headed to the cafeteria to get some breakfast while LL rested and contracted, though post epidural, they weren't painful at least. LL's ob/gyn came in around 11:30 after performing a morning hysterectomy.  We were planning on another 6-18 hours of labor since there seemed to be little progress over the last 6+ hours. Much to our surprise though, the doc said,"Let's get ready! She's 10 cm's. We're having this baby!"

Yowza!!!

The doc prepped, the nurses prepped and I prepped. Wait. What? Yep, I held one of LL's legs up and back to help her while she pushed (better than nothing). And push she did. The nurse and doctor kept saying what a great job pushing she was doing, but both LL and I had the same cynical thought: what else could they possibly say? You're doing a terrible job? Ha!  Turns out, they weren't just placating her! 20 minutes after the pushing started at 12:45, out came baby Marissa Ann! She had made about 5 sets of 3 pushes and that was it. On push number 3 the doc asked if LL wanted to feel the baby's head, as it was almost out. Two more sets of pushes was all it took.

So here are the pictures. Marissa Ann was born at 1:06 p.m., was 20 inches long and weighed in at 6 lbs, 12 ozs.

More pictures and stuff to come tomorrow....ish.

The first rule of go bag? Never talk about go bag.

If you have a kid, you probably know of the "go bag" reference. It's the bag you have prepared in case labor starts early and you have to race to the hospital. If you know the movie Fight Club as well, then the title might make SOME sense to you. Mostly it's just something that LL and I say to each other and for some reason it cracks us up.

But we are scheduled to go to the hospital on Sunday night at 8:30, so even though we have our go bags, they are more like well packed suitcases. The current schedule is to check into the hospital at 8:30 and at some point in the evening, have a cervical ripening balloon, or CRB, inserted and pitocin will be administered in a low dose. That will help prepare for labor. After 6 hours or so, early in the morning on Monday, the pitocin will be stepped up and hopefully labor will be induced. It could take 12-24 hours though.

Soooo, sometime Monday or Tuesday early, we should a little baby girl in our hands! God willing!

Friday night, being a Friday in Lent, we went out for sushi. Tonight we're going to our favorite Italian place, Sapori Trattoria. Tomorrow, we'll probably just cook something at home and watch the start of the Blackhawks game before taking a cab over. Since we'll be there until Wednesday morning, there's no need to drive down and pay for downtown parking for 2 1/2 days. We'll use the saved parking money on a celebratory dinner!

Update time

Thought I'd shoot everyone an update on our status based on our visit to LL's doctor yesterday. First though, while I have your attention, MY back is doing better. Seems like the ibuprofen is working at keeping the inflammation down and allowing me to walk and such. I'm at about 85% now, can't go to the gym yet most likely, but can lift things and go up and down stairs as needed.

On to LL's status! We went to the doc and her blood pressure was elevated, but okay, so no need to induce. The doc wants her to come back on Friday and was thinking he'd send her over to the hospital to be induced then. I raised some objections though as there is a risk of having to get a c-section if you induce (about 40%).  If you don't induce though, there's a chance of a stroke for the mother as she goes further along with high blood pressure. Still, with the higher risk of a c-section, we're going to hold out til Monday if possible at which point she'll be 39 weeks.

Here are some pictures! Everyone has said to take pictures now as it will never be this clean/tidy again! So here we go.

The owl picture is a new addition.

Changing station!

Look at the expert hanging of those handmade pictures! Pics courtesy of LL's mom. She did a great job.

Even the closet seems somewhat organized. Nice.

A picture from another day which shows another angle.

Man (and woman) down!!

On Tuesday I did some light shoveling and felt a little twinge in my lower back. Nothing really at all and barely even of note, if not for what happened on Friday. After sitting at my computer most of the morning working on various things and feeling good about going to the Blackhawks' game that night, I bounded up the stairs towards my bedroom where I was going to get my gym bag ready for a post lunch workout. As I walked down the hallway, I felt my lower back tighten up and the pain literally brought me to my knees. Unable to move for a few minutes, I wrote off the idea of the gym fairly quickly. After getting to my bedroom, I was able to take some anti-inflammatories, but there was still a fair amount of pain.

It was tough to sit or stand, but doing either was fine.  Initially walking was tough too, but eventually I would "loosen up" a bit and be able to walk sort of normal. The really crazy thing is that I had PT on Wednesday and they really put me through my paces. Thursday was nothing out of the ordinary. Then BAM, Friday noonish it struck. Ugh.

But we had plans for drinks (just me) and fish at Emmit's before going to the Hawks game, so I had to suck it up. LL had a trip to the baby-doc where they strap a monitor on her and measure the baby's heartbeat for an extended period of time and make note of when she moves.  She was almost late for the appointment due to work and a stupid cab driver, both of which elevated her blood pressure, which is not good. As a result, the doc said he wanted her to go on bed rest starting today and to avoid going to work. He felt little things were elevating her blood pressure to bad levels.

Unfortunately, LL also wants to spend as much time as possible with the little gal on the back end after birth, so taking time off PRIOR to work is not a good thing. Sigh. We're working through it to come up with a good solution, hopefully involving working from home and/or me chauffeuring her as needed. Tuesday LL goes back to the doctor though and hopefully he won't want to induce or anything. There's a greater chance of having a c-section if they need to induce at this point, so we're hoping to avoid having to do that. Tomorrow LL is 38 weeks.

On a brighter note, the Hawks won in OT and recorded a point for their NHL best 21st game to start the season. It was also their 200th straight sellout and Hossa's 999th game. Good stuff!

Saturday night, tonight, will be another Pizza Group night! Should be fun!!

Sequester sets in

Unless you're totally avoiding the news, you know that spending cuts kick in today that I imagine will eventually impact me in some way, though I'm not sure how or when. Congress and the White House kicked the can down the road at the end of January with some tax increases and some spending cuts, but not enough of either. The GOP stated "that's it!" for tax increases though, so when Obama and the Democrats started looking for tax increases along with spending cuts to avoid these cuts, the republicans said no. The media has many several mentions of a "period of austerity" for our country that is looming. There doesn't seem to be a simple way around it, so I have to agree. If you owe a bunch of money, you either have to raise income or cut spending to pay it back. Do we need to pay it all back? No, but we do need to run at a surplus budget for a while if we're going to make a dent. So how do you do that?

Well, letting someone else play world cop for a bit would help. Wars are REALLY expensive....like CRAZY expensive and are a big chunk of the reason we have this tremendous debt to begin with, not to mention the thousands of lives we lost. We need to work smarter on that front.

Taxes need to increase in the short term. Not that it balances the budget, but why was the SSN tax ever reduced from 6% to 4% in the first place? Just a short term stimulus plan that was just that, short sighted.

Tax international companies for doing business here and have US corps creating jobs abroad bring back those jobs to the US. In the end, these two are the single most important things we can do for the long term health of our economy. Bring home jobs and employ people. A lot of problems go away if people have jobs and are paying into the system instead of living on the dole.

That's my political rant for the day! No baby yet and no indications that she's coming over the weekend or anything. Still prepping at the Sutton house!!

If you hear snoring, let us be!

Yesterday was supposed to be a day of R&R for LL after not sleeping on Saturday night due to indigestion from eating (too much!) Mexican food. Poor thing had heart burn and really didn't sleep much at all. We had tickets to the Hawks game Sunday evening, but she decided to bow out and recuperate. She's a big fan and really likes our seats, so she was sad about missing. The Oscars being on was a nice alternative for her though while she flipped back and forth between the game.

Just when LL was getting ready to take a nap, about 2:30 or so, I went up to the kitchen and noticed the sink had backed up. Ugh!! We have two sinks up there so I needed LL to secure the stopper on one side while I plunged the other. Unfortunately it didn't work. Then my neighbor came over and said there's was backed up as well which meant the main stack going to the main line was backed up. Double ugh! So I called the plumber who asked if I REALLY needed him out today (their way of saying it was going to be expensive) and I said I did. Unfortunately I left for the game before the plumber got there and had to have a few conversations and short texts with LL while the plumber was here. When I came back though, it was all cleaned up and things were sterilized that needed it. Fortunately the condo building foots the bill since it wasn't in our unit per se.

Since LL didn't get the sleep she needed, I thought I'd hit the store while running errands and make dinner for when she got home. Porterhouse steaks were on sale and I bought some sugar snap peas to cook. Combine that with some pita triangles heated up in the oven and dipped in one of two kinds of hummus and it was quite the meal! Delicious! LL was very happy. I don't think she's going to have any trouble sleeping tonight.

I also hit the gym today and did some light weights and then ran for the first time in a LONG time. I only put in 20 minutes, but went about 2 miles before walking briskly for another 10 minutes or so. Just easing back into it. It was a pretty good workout, which leads me to believe I too will have no trouble sleeping.

Too long between entries!

It was a busy week last week with ESDNM coming into town late on Tuesday night (11:30) and then leaving Thursday late afternoon. We had to fit our clients into the day and a half of meetings along with a prospect and two lawyers. Busy, busy, busy. Then Thursday evening, LL and I had another baby class for 2 1/2 hours, this one was on caring for newborns, so come Friday, I was pretty beat.

But there was no rest for the weary as LL had an early doctor appointment and ultrasound which I wanted to attend. The baby is now 6 pounds 5 oz and is smack dab in the middle of average for a 36 week 5 day baby (now 37 weeks as of today). The good news from the ultrasound must have relaxed LL as her blood pressure afterwards was the lowest in a few weeks.

Early in the week, LL went on an online baby shopping spree boxes were arriving daily starting Tuesday. Not just one or two and not small either! The mailman had to stretch to reach the mailboxes on both sides of the foyer on Tuesday just to deliver the mail. So now our neat and orderly baby's room is not and we'll be putting stuff away for a little while.

LL's car battery didn't start Saturday, but unlike last weekend, I was able to jump it with my portable emergency battery/tire inflator/outlet/charger box that I keep in my car. She was able to get a new battery at Sears in Joliet as she was visiting her parents and picking up the dog.

So lots of stuff going on, but nothing inspirational to write about here. Hope you had a great week!

Oh wait, congratulations to sister Bee who just got a new job and will be working at Argonne National Labs with her hubby! Very exciting time for her and we're very happy for her!

Skating where the Bears play

There were two hockey games over the weekend at Soldier Field, where the Bears play. They put a rink in over the last few weeks and had various events going on there. One of them was letting people, who acquired tickets, to go skating. Good fun! One of the baristas at my Starbucks got four for Monday afternoon and let me have one.

This is an ice sculpture inside the stadium showing the teams that played.  Office Max was the sponsor and where my barista friend got the tickets (after waiting in line for about 90 minutes).













And there's barista Sara, she couldn't skate due to a back injury, with Tommy next to her and her husband Mike on the far right of the pic. This was the prep room where you put on and take off your skates.









The entrance to the field and rink, with the exit on the left.


















 And there's the rink! We had a 45 minute slot to skate and then they would clear the ice and run the zamboni. They went all day, so they were probably able to accommodate 1,000 skaters or so during the day.

The three of us with Soldier Field in the back ground. It was raining a bit when we went out onto the ice, so I put on my softball pullover. I should have brought my Bears pullover that Joisey Ken had bought me. Just wasn't thinking.

Nice cross-over form.

I'm coming to get ya!!

 Picture of my seats! Section 312, on the aisle, last row.

And my other seats from center ice. Section 437, second row from the top.









We'll see if either of these videos post.

Shower time

It's been some crazy busy days, but I'll try to catch y'all up.

Friday morning, I cook LL breakfast because we had mashed potatoes from a recent visit to my parents' house and LL loves potato pancakes.  But, since she had to wait for me a little to cook breakfast, plus we slept in a bit, I drove her to work.  That meant though that I barely had time to get to my physical therapy appointment, which was pretty grueling again.....but good. Then Friday during rush hour, I picked up LL and we made a 2+ hour trek to Joliet to have dinner with her parents, two aunts and a cousin. They were all in town for the shower on Saturday.

Sub-plot to the week: I received, started using and lost, two styluses. Yes two. A stylus is what you can use to operate your Iphone with your gloves on. They make gloves with which you can operate a smart phone, but while they work well as styluses, they suck as gloves; which is really their primary purpose. So I started using a stylus, which was awesome. Then I lost it, which sucked. Then LL got me another one for Valentine's Day, then I lost it first thing the next morning. LL then ordered me 5 of them which have a tether line that you put into the earphone jack on your phone so you can't lose them. Day one and I still have it!!

Saturday was LL's shower, a very small, family oriented event, and here are a few pics.


My sisters, mom and niece! LL's sister-in-law organized everything and then her husband, LL's brother, got sick and she couldn't make it. She did a great job though. It was at a little place called Jane's, which I've never even driven by, but it was nice. I of course stayed home and watched Swamp People with LL's dad. Ha!






One of the fun/crazy things I've seen as gifts thus far was a diaper cake from my mom. Ha! I moved it out to the car and thought it really was a cake! I was being careful not to mess it up or damage it. Too funny.


LL was really tired afterwards though and we had a glorious day sitting on the couch doing a whole bunch of nothing. We went for dinner at The Bagel, one of our go to locations for soup and comfort food.

Sunday didn't amount to much either as we slept in, again, and I went to get my ice skates sharpened. Oh, did I mention that I get to skate at Soldier Field on Monday? Yep! And I've been skating for years on skates that were NEVER sharpened!! Ha!! I bought them oh...I don't know...6 years ago at a Play it Again Sports, a used sporting goods store in whom I held stock some time ago. Anyway, I just assumed they had been used and were sharpened. Having never owned a pair of hockey skates, I didn't know any different. They worked pretty well, so I thought I was okay. Then I went skating with some people on Thursday and one of the guys said he bought new skates and couldn't skate because they weren't sharpened. He didn't know that he needed to get them sharpened. That made me think....Have I ever had them sharpened. Nope. Doh! Idiot! Anyway, looking forward to skating on REAL skates for the first time.

Seafood

It's Ash Wednesday, the start of Lent for us Catholics. St. Alphonsus' mass schedule wasn't to my liking so I went to Old Saint Pat's church in the west Loop at noon. The priest was very engaging, which isn't always the case, but this guy was pretty good. In his homily, he made the analogy for Lent of a Brita water filter. We are, he proposed, the water going into the upper chamber of the Brita. Lent is the filter itself and the clean water is us at Easter. I like the analogy. Oh, he mentioned he needed a simple analogy to use for the 500 or so school kids earlier that morning and this is what he came up with. I like the analogy anyway. Maybe that doesn't say much about me!

Being Ash Wednesday meant that I had to fast and avoid meat. Lunch was just a yogurt with Grape-Nuts (by the way, where did that name come from??) and breakfast was two halves of paczki's (pronounced punshkies) left over from Fat Tuesday (which I purchased at Glazed and Infused, very awesome). Fortunately I had plenty of energy (in the form of fat cells) to get me through my trip to the gym.

So I hit the store to get some fish-type food for dinner. They had 4 oz lobster tails on sale for $4, so I bought two, had two 6 oz portions of trout and then some smelt, which I cook for an appetizer. Already at home was an acorn squash, so we were good to go! The lobster was outstanding because of the marinade I used. Here's the recipe. It was unbelievably good. We're already figuring out what other types of food it will work with! Scallops and shrimp jumped to the forefront. Yum!

Tradition

Since 1973 our family has gathered to vote on the best Christmas card received by parents that Christmas season. Next Christmas it will be our 40th anniversary of this tradition!! Holy cow. The card LL and I have sent the last two years hasn't qualified because it has family pictures on it, which we don't allow into the competition. Clearly though, they were the best cards of the last two years. Still though, we got together to vote on the OTHER cards that did qualify. It's a good reason to get together and share a meal with the family. The winner, if you recall, receives a letter of acknowledgement from my parents and the picture is framed and hung in the hallway of their home.


The owl card won this year and was sent by my sister Lori. The card below it came in 2nd and was sent by my niece. Their family get's 3 votes and have no qualms about cheating, but this year they actually did send the best two cards, after the card we sent of course.

Yesterday's events were a reminder for me to go through my cards and pick out the best ones that I received.

The top one is from the Bears, as you might suspect. The next one is from my Mokena friends, Terry and Sandie.












These cityscapes are from intellectual property attorneys with whom I actually haven't worked and the second one is from my parents!

And this pooch card is from my sister Bee. Very good card.

Friday Fun

Thought I'd just post some pics today.


 These are the softball uniforms I've had since I started playing about 11 years ago.

Here's another picture with a few more added I think. Guess there's no reason to post the first one, but it's already posted. Ha!

And here's February's calendar picture downstairs. A great picture from a great day.

And here's our other calendar's pictures for February. Lots of good pictures from our dinner on Thursday at Barrachina. That's my niece that I'm hugging, my parents, Mokena Terry and Sandie, Linda and Greg and me with Greg. Good pics!

Saturday and Therapy

It was a busy, busy weekend.....or at least Saturday. Sunday was busy too I guess, but just in a different way. First, back to Saturday. As we had turned the baby's room into....the baby's room, we had to move stuff.......well...out. Unfortunately a good chunk of it made it to the hallway and no further. So with guests coming over for the big game, even though they are good friends, the crap needed to be relocated or tossed. A good portion of the stuff we earmarked for sale by my parents at a future garage sale to be determined. The rest of it was moved to offsite storage, pitched, consolidated or stored in a closet downstairs.


Then we tackled this wall decal. LL bought it from Etsy and it had about 15 separate pieces that had to be lined up just so.  It took both of us the better part of an hour, maybe longer now that I think about it, to get it all set up. The finished product is pretty sweet though. LL has a great eye for decorating!!









Just another view.

On a separate note, as you recall, I'm going to physical therapy in an effort to help my herniated disc. The interesting part of this set of sessions is that it starts with an extended period of deep tissue work on muscles and "knots" in my upper back.  For this part, my PT uses Graston tools pictured here:

Yeah, the tools are dug into the muscles pretty hard, does lead to some bruising, but in the long run the breakdown of the knots will help stabilize the muscles in a more normal fashion. 

The Graston portion is followed up by dry needling. Dry needling is similar to acupuncture, but they limit the needles to just the impacted areas (so no wrists or feet or other areas).  For me, it's obviously limited to the upper back and neck area, so I had the PT take pictures. You can see the redness from the Graston tools.

After the needling, I go through about 45 minutes of regular physical therapy: lifting weights, stretching tiny muscles, etc, etc. Today I was gone from 1:30-4:30 at PT as I have to take a bus there and back. It was a long afternoon.

Adopter

First, happy birthday to my wonderful wife LL! Love you!!

I've never been an early adopter of technology. There's no 3-D TV in the house. For the longest time I only had a cell phone for emergencies. There's still a VCR hooked up to our TV. They stopped supporting the model of receiver I use. You get the picture. Having an Iphone though has moved me down the "adopter" timeline. Because of my comfort with the phone and online transactions and such, I've changed my banking habits to...well, the recent decade at least as far as everyone else is concerned. Paying bills online, sending checks online and now...depositing checks through my phone. Yep, just like the commercials. Someone mentioned it to me the other day when I said I had a bunch of checks to deposit but hadn't made it to the bank yet. So I downloaded my bank's app and registered. All I had to do was enter the amount of the check, take a picture of the front and back and click "deposit". Not too shabby. The irony is that I had already gone to the bank and the bank's ATM rejected two of the checks as unreadable. Those two checks were the ones I deposited via my phone. Worked like a charm!!