Today, we celebrated Thanksgiving as just our little family.  I was excited to break out some of our entertaining stuff, which hasn’t gotten much use in our small apartment thus far.  Through several exertions of self discipline and a few charitable donations, we were able to clear out a lot of the extra stuff in […]

Our last week has been packed full of quality time as a family!  Life with two kids seems to fly by a whole lot quicker than I ever remember it doing so before.  I realize it sounds cliche, but it “seems like just yesterday” that we were moving here!  This time of year is actually […]

Lydia brought her hands together today!  With just a few more weeks left for maternity leave, I’m trying to celebrate these little moments that happen spontaneously.  It’s amazing!  Part of me really wants her to hurry up so that she can play more with her brother.  Then, I catch myself and *try* to remind myself […]

I will not lie.  Today was hard.  Colin’s school was out because of Labor Day weekend, so I got to be a single parent of two for a day.  Yikes!  Besides the fact that this is hard anyway, today was my first time to attempt it for so long.  Originally, we were going to hang […]

In the days leading up to and right after Lydia’s birth, while we were mostly occupied with other things, my dear sister Joan and her family were here for a visit!  Before Lydia’s birth, we were able to do a few dinners with family and walk over to the nearby park one evening.  Then, the […]

We finally got to take Lydia home yesterday!  She never completely got up to 80 mL at each and every feeding, but she is very close, and she has been nursing well during the past several days, so we think that made the doctors feel better about discharging her.  One of her latest nurses, Wilfreya, […]

We are at day 5 and it appears we will pass by all the cousin birthdays!  

Tomorrow marks the official “due” date for Baby Sandridge.  Today, we had our 40-week checkup with our obgyn, and all looks well as far as Baby’s and my health are concerned.  As I told the doctor, I feel great!  I just have a loving obstruction who consistently gets in the way of my being able to reach […]

I consider myself already a mother of two (in-utero children count!); however, it will be a different mother-of-two experience soon.  So far, no signs of impending arrival are present, but we are definitely in the “any day now” timeframe!  We are excited, and we are also feeling the growing pressure to be ready.  Unfortunately, there […]

One tough thing about being in Irvine has definitely been having our closest friends and family a 4+ hour plane flight away.  Yesterday, our family was kind enough to honor us with a baby sprinkle for Baby Sandridge!  Many gifts were shipped in advance to our apartment.  We are fortunate to live in the internet […]