Crew Greyson Childs Arrives

Family of three about to become family of four...
on our way to the hospital Wednesday, May 20

Suiting up. (one size fits all).

The big reveal. 1:02 p.m.

Getting weighed and measured. 6.12 lbs, 19 inches

Soaking in the sun in the well baby nursery while Mom recovers.

"In love" all over again...

What does a guy have to do for a little shampoo?...

Big Brother

Blue is for boy.

Father and son.

Ready to roll "bro."

Las Vegas' youngest Elvis impersonator.

Brothers.

What a difference a boat makes

From this...




To this...






And a few fleeting happy moments in between.



And we're done...for this year anyway. We'll work on the swim skills this summer, but Greg definitely deserves the gold medal for patience (and maybe a neck massage for all those death grip holds Cole inflicted).

Cole's still afraid he'll sink, but all in all our perseverance week after week was worth it.

Lookie me, so craftie

Copied this idea from Etsy.com Turned out pretty good. Can't wait to take cute pics with the boys. EIGHT MORE DAYS!

(Posting my handmades is so self indulgent, I know. But really I'm so proud of myself anytime I attempt new projects and when one actually gets completed, well now there IS cause for some congratulation --- even if it is me patting my own back...I should post a pic of all the unfinished stuff I've started and never completed, now that's what usually happens...must be nesting or somthin'?!)

Pretty Packages

I wish I could go on a long sweaty run. I need to get rid of some of my anxiety. I really truly miss my morning time alone with my iPod and tennis shoes.

I think my physical fatigue is giving way to my faith. I'm feeling apprehensive and quite honestly a little scared about this baby's birth. I'm tired. I know I'll make my way to a sane place, but these early morning hours really do make me question.


I love pretty packages. You know the ones where the packaging is almost better than the gift. Pretty bows and flowers and little attentions to details that make you not want to open the gift for fear of ruining the wrap job. That's how I wish I could see the future. Like a pretty package. I want the bow on top. I want the tidy, neat and pleasing presentation before my eyes. Alas, sometimes all I see is a hasty gift bag thrown together with a little tissue from a past gift and no card.

I'm not sure if my little metaphor is actually making sense, but anyhow...today I feel anxious. And really why? There's not much I can do but just live it and make sense of it as I go along.

Yesterday I found myself bravely saying "So what. So X happens, So Y happens. So what. It will happen or not and we'll figure it out." See, how can I be so brave one min. and so doubting the next? Add in a little irrational hormone here or there and now you can see why I can't seem to sleep past 3 a.m.

The sun is coming up. The baby is moving. I hear footsteps upstairs. It's time to get a start on the day.

Blog2Print

So, its 5:35 a.m. on Saturday and I've already been up for 2 1/2 hrs. I guess my body is just prepping me for those interrupted nights I'll be experiencing in a few weeks.

Waking up in the early a.m. gives me a few hours alone with my thoughts. It's been nice. Today I decided I needed to write in my journal, so I crept down stairs and grabbed my neglected little journal (I'm still working in the same book I started 6 months after I was married) and hand wrote an entry. I know, crazy...I used my own penmanship. I was thinking one day I should convert my journal to an electronic file, but for now I enjoy the scrawl of my handwriting across the page.

I left a blank page before I started my entry. It just didn't seem right to start on the very next page as my last entry because so much has happened since then, so I left a blank page, then started today's entry.

What should I put on the blank page? The thought plagues me. What could I put that would suffice all that has transpired? Why do I care now? There are so many gaps in the written account of my personal history, why is this recent laps more important to go back to and record?

Should I just write... "Lots of stuff has happened...see my blog and Facebook status updates for more." A quick cross link should take care of things in this digital age, right? I mean really, what should I fill that blank page with? Seems an injustice to just skip to today.

So now I'm on the computer thinking, I'll just insert all my blog entries, that should catch it up. I Google "printing your blog" and up comes Blog2Print. Seems easy enough. Anybody ever done it?