Update from Project "Family of Four"

Team S was hit with a stomach bug earlier this week (apparently a different flu than the one you get the shot for??) which was an unexpected, temporarily crippling blow. I guess that is what I get for bragging about how easy things have been :)

I think, make that PRAY, we are out of the woods with little Juliet spared. I'm guessing if we make it through today without her getting sick we should be through the germ cycle. Yikes, it was UGLY.

On a brighter note, a few pictures and an update about the crew...

There is little better in the world than napping with a newborn on your chest as hubby is doing here. It defines yummy...

A picture of the lady clad in pink. She had her first bath today and actually faired pretty well considering she doesn't like to be naked and seems constantly cold. A few tears but overall she proved to be the calm, relaxed little bundle we love.

And Ben relaxing on the couch with his trucks. He has developed into quite the little performer in the last two weeks as he pulls out all of his tricks for visitors coming to meet Juliet.

He is obsessed with his cars and trucks, has "garages" all over the house where he stores them, and drags his dinosaur book (thanks ba ba) out for every new person to read it to him.

He has been AMAZING with Juliet - curious when she cries, alerting everyone when her sock falls off, gently touching her head while she is sleeping. There was one incident of toy-to-face contact, thankfully it was with the foam finger and no damage was done :)

Paula has been coming in the morning to help with Ben, allowing me to run errands. She usually heads home around Ben's nap time and our little crew hangs together in the afternoon. We've got a pretty good rhythm going.

With that, you're pretty much up to speed on the exciting details of our progress. More pics to come soon!

Wednesday Words

We're picking up words at a pretty good pace these days, and I read somewhere recently that in a couple months he'll be learning 20 words a day! So I thought I'd try to commit to a weekly update of new words he can say, on Wednesdays...forgive me if there are any repeats from the previous list.

- giraffe (my favorite word of his yet - no one would be able to translate this without assistance but it is a very excited "Geeeaaaaf!"
- train
- whale
- plane

...potentially "Carrie" after his favorite aunt spent the weekend with him.

Still no 'mom.'

In other news of note, he understands quite a bit of what we say to him. He can throw things away in the garbage, deliver things from person to person in the room, get down the stairs by himself (backwards, finally!), knock on the door to get inside, and knows we walk Stella out the front door but run her in the mornings out the garage (back door).

He has also become quite the little performer.

Last night at Club Lucky he had hubby, sis, Tracy and I in tears over a couple of random tricks he is working on. Nothing earth shattering - but he hams it up and knows he is on stage, which makes it all the funnier. And he laughs when we laugh, and so on and so on.

He's pretty entertaining to hang out with these days.

Needless to say, we enjoyed the long weekend together.