Babysitting jobs are popping up left and right with the arrivals of two new additions to the staff family.
    Physics teacher Cy Prothro and chemistry teacher Bruce Coulter recently welcomed a new member to each of their families.    

    Upon closer examination Prothro came to the conclusion that his baby was indeed a girl.
After settling this initial confusion, Prothro welcomed Eleanor to the world by cutting her umbilical cord. “I was hoping to use a huge knife but the doctor handed me a pair of scissors,” he said.

    The baby madness began in mid-March, when the Prothros discovered that they were expecting. “We received the doctor’s confirmation the day before we went on vacation in Hawaii,” Prothro said. “The first people we told were complete strangers.” He added that their families heard the news a month later, in mid-April.

    Eleanor’s name came about with very little argument. “We both liked the name Nora but my wife wanted something more traditional like Eleanor,” Prothro said. The name Eleanor also sounded better with the middle name, Wilde, according to Prothro. “My grandmother’s maiden name was Wilde,” Prothro said. “My favorite children’s story is also Where the Wild Things Are, and I liked the idea of a wild child.”

    Prothro decided to take two days off to welcome Eleanor home. He explained that his mother-in-law was in town visiting and his own mother arrived on Dec. 5. “I feel kind of useless with all these mothers around,” he said. “Christmas break is also coming up so I have time to spend with Eleanor then.”

    Prothro shared full accounts of the birth during his classes, even telling students what he did with the placenta. “It’s sitting in my fridge right now,” Prothro said. “I’m planning on cooking half of it and garnishing it with pepper and putting the other half under an apple tree.”
Prothro is only following family tradition. “There’s a tree in Maryland with my placenta under it,” he said. “That tree produces some sweet fruit.”

    The Coulters recently also welcomed a new member to their family. Rordan Coulter arrived three months early on Aug. 6 at California Pacific Medical Center.
Coulter took a week off to aide his wife Kirsten, allowing substitute teacher Harper Puziss to teach his classes.

    The Coulters were expecting a child around last December. They decided not to have a baby shower but celebrated by arranging the baby room.

    The couple met during an acting class in New York and followed their acting roots by misnaming their son after a character in a British melodrama. “The rogue’s name (from the melodrama) was Roden but my wife and I heard Rordan and we ended up liking it,” Coulter said. “We basically invented the name.”

    Rordan is now four and a half months old. Although he’s living with a chemistry teacher, he has yet to learn his elements. “I haven’t started teaching him science yet,” Coulter said.