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Chaos and Sanity in Peaceful Coexistence

Porter’s current repertoir includes: sleeping, eating, not sleeping, marathon hiccuping, crying, perfecting his aim in long-distance projectile spitting and peeing all over the place each time his diaper is being changed. Not bad for being just short of 2 weeks old.

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Multi-task or die.

Okay, so I’m back. If there is one thing I have learned over the last couple of weeks it is that hell hath no fury like my readership after 3 or 4 days of no new posts. So, on with the show.
Although we have yet to really settle in on a new daily [...]

And then there were four

Is there someone who could explain to me why babies come straight from the factory defaulted to nocturnal mode, leaving parents to have to spend the first month rewiring them? I would like to have a sit-down with the head of the product design department on who thought up this particular feature…and smack them [...]

Nine and a half pounds of sweet, cute, adorably kissable boy

( Porter )

After about 6 hours, and what seemed a horse dosage of pitocin, my body gave in and finally allowed me to begin the kind of labor that would produce an actual baby. It seemed an eternity, but just 4 short hours later (at 6:30 pm) we welcomed a 9 pound, 8 ounce baby boy [...]

New Chapter

Today officially marks my 42nd week of pregnancy, and the time has finally come to put everyone out of their misery and find out if this child is a boy or a girl. I will be induced first thing tomorrow morning, and with any luck, we will have added a new addition to our [...]