I think it’s challenging at any stage in adding a new family member to a family, but adding the third has been especially difficult.  Even more difficult than adding the second, fussy, needy, crybaby that he was (Lowell)…  You see, now that James is 3.5 and Lowell is 22 months old, THEY FIGHT.  A lot. [...]

On our own!  David will be home at “normal” time for a Tuesday.  We have a dinner meal being delivered around the same time that he will be getting here.  I’ve already done 2 loads of laundry, snacks for tonight’s Bible Study small group is made (minus the homemade frosting), the boys are napping, I’m [...]

Birth: 8 pounds 15 ounces (AABC)

1 day: 8 pounds 7 ounces (initial pediatrician visit)

3 days: 8 pounds 4 ounces (AABC postpartum checkup)

5 days: 8 pounds 15 ounces (circumcision/new pediatrician visit)

8 days: 9 pounds 7 ounces – 75% (recheck on the circ. stitches)

15 days: 10 pounds 6 ounces – 95% (2 [...]

I’ve reached the point of new-motherhood where I start to second guess things.  For example… Nursing.  Yes.  I am second guessing what I am doing, despite having successfully nursed two boys for a cumulative total of 28 months.  I know what I am doing.  I know how it works.  I [...]

I’m noticing that there are simply not enough hands around these days to keep taking pictures.  I promise that I want to take them… I have friends with new *first* babies with GOBS of pictures but I simply cannot keep up.  Poor Korben is only going to have a few precious pictures of his babyness. 

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