This is a little late going up, but I should mention that Nick was able to attend the Microsoft Build 2017, May 10-12.  He has been wanting to go ever since he entered the workforce!  I was excited for him.  However, as the week of Build approached, I also found myself working to manage a […]

So much has happened this past month!  Since there is just A LOT, I will just dump as many pictures as I can here tonight and fill in details later (maybe, one day…).

I’m currently reading The Montessori Method, and I am hooked by the first few chapters.  Maria Montessori was certainly ahead of her time in early childhood education.  Did you know that the amount of learning that takes place in the first two years of life is estimated to be the equivalent amount of work that […]

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 […]

We are so glad to have another visitor this week, Oma!  She has already made herself quite handy, coordinating two meals and helping to nurse Colin back to health when he was suffering from a little stomach bug yesterday.  He was quite pathetic, yet adorable: He woke up feeling terrible, threw up a few times, […]

Last week was my first week to start really phasing back into work and Lydia’s first week to start going to school.  I only worked 12 hours last week, but that was enough!  We are figuring out new routines.  On Monday and Tuesday, I just went with Lydia to school, and we hung out for around […]

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 […]

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 all went to see Lydia today, and she is just doing great!  She has all of her IV’s out, and the only cords still attached to her are the leads that are measuring her breathing (which are now reading as completely normal), as well as a small tube in her nose that this there […]

As we eagerly await Lydia’s return home, and especially now that things have been looking “up,” I’m feeling ready to share Friday’s birth story.  Here it goes!