and back to work I go tomorrow.  I’m (0f course) feeling nervous about it but I know we’ll all be okay…send Jude your good bottle drinking vibes tomorrow.  Here are a couple of photos I took today. Finally caught a smile on camera:

TIme for a photo and news update! Today Jude is 2 months old. I am currently agreeing with the addage “it goes by so fast…” I’ll be heading back to work in three short weeks and we’ve hired a part-time nanny to help us out for a while. Levi continues to be a great big [...]

We celebrated Levi’s 4th birthday today with friends.  We ended up with an accidental theme party when grandma Dorothy offered to make superhero capes for Levi’s friends.  They had a great time playing and we all enjoyed the ice-cream cake, thanks to The Chocoate Shoppe (and parents too busy learning how to manage life with [...]

Levi’s been telling people he’s a “little bit 4″ this week.  His birthday is coming at the end of the month, but we had to celebrate with Grandma Eberly before she went home this week.  The number 4 is also descriptive of Jude, as he’s now 4 weeks old.  Still eating, growing and pooping a [...]

Artsy photos by Carissa, taken when Jude was 6 days old: For a comparison to his brother at 5 days, check out these photos of Levi at 5 days:

We were happy to welcome Jude Daniel into our family on August 20, 2010 at 10:30 am.  He weighed in at 7lbs, 13 oz and measured 19 inches (although was somehow 20.5 inches at the doctor’s office 5 days later).  Levi has been a proud big brother, already a bit protective of Jude, letting us [...]

We’ve commented multiple times this summer that, “remember last summer, it was hardly hot enough to even go to the pool?”  That seems hard to imagine after the summer we’ve had… it’s been plenty hot.  And the fact that I’m plenty pregnant makes that even more apparent.  Speaking of being pregnant…I’m at 40 weeks 2 [...]