I was out with just Stellan and Ellie yesterday. I pulled up to my first stop and both of them were sleeping. Uh… Now what?! I’d forgotten such possibilities. It turns out, I can still carry two sleeping babies and a diaper bag, lock a vehicle, and hold both until the older one decides to […]

Stellan’s birth story is posted here.

Apparently, my friends, I have reached the point of intentional. Or perhaps I’ve just joined the group of the lost causes. I haven’t been asked once this week or last if I don’t know what causes this. No one has asked if we have a television. No one has said my hands are full. Lots […]

Someone broke it to the poor boy that he has 5 sisters.

Stellan is a week old today. Crazy how this week flew when the last week of my pregnancy was a decade long. I’m loving having a newborn again. It never gets old, ever. Stellan had several nights of screaming in the hospital, then one night of perfect nursing and sleeping and nursing and sleeping and […]

Stellan Wyatt, all 9lbs 2oz of him, joined the crazy cast of a big (little) family Wednesday afternoon. He was 21 inches long. His birth was fast and stated to be the attending OB’s “easiest ever” delivery. Labor lasted 4½ hours. I’ll work on his birth story. In the meantime, I am over the moon […]

Today while I was in the shower Pierce tried to reheat leftover pancakes. He was told to heat them for 20 seconds. I think he typed in a few extra zeroes. The whole house still smells like smoke. The pancake was black. The plate clearly didn’t survive. Then a dear unnamed child was apparently bored […]

I’m 39 weeks today, due next Saturday. We went and found an outfit to bring baby home in today – we even may have decided on a name. I think, since it’s so close to my due date, we’ll keep it secret until baby’s born. I finally had Liberty get a shot of the dress […]