The Adventures of
David
Elizabeth
and Leif

Well…  I said I’d blog again when it got better.  It’s official, and I’m delighted to make good on that promise!  For a few weeks now I’ve been nervously waiting for this newly happy stage to return to so much difficulty, but.  I think…I think it’s really for real.  I’m still eager for the nursing year to be complete, for that feeling of being rested every morning, for just a little more mental sanity to allow for erstwhile pleasures such as, I don’t know, scrubbing out the toilet every now and then.  But let’s not get crazy.  For now it’s enough to take joy in both my children, to feel excited about lugging them outside for the third time in a day, to remember–viscerally–that I have abdominal muscles.  It is enough, and adequacy never felt better.  Survival has been good, and now for revival!  Thanks to everyone who has helped me through these hard six months…

I’ll close with a portrait of another person who recently received some fresh nourishment.  How sweet it is!  (”Oh, that’s why those little white knives are stabbing me in the mouth all day long!?”)

O Sleeps 9!!!

At 7:03 this morning, Elizabeth Dishman was roused by the waking cries of her almost 9-week old son, Orion, who, according to reliable sources, went to sleep at 10pm the previous night, eclipsing his own record of 7 hours of continuous nighttime sleep.  ”I couldn’t believe it,” said the 37 year-old mother of two, who has reportedly functioned on 5-6 hours of sleep per night since the infant was 3 weeks old.  ”I’m hopeful that this will start a new trend, but it’s really too early to tell,” Dishman said.  Husband and father David says he also awoke feeling delighted and refreshed, rolling over in bed and giving his wife “two thumbs up.”  The couple’s older son, 3 year-old Leif, was at the time playing with trains and gave no comment on the proceedings.

So this is me making up for the lack of baby pictures of the 2nd child in MY family…you guessed it: moi.  Although I’m not complaining–now that I have two children I understand the tendency to over-pic the first and under-pic the second…the unbelievable disparity in the amount of time, energy and hands.  But we posted so often during Leif’s early months that I want to make sure and at least try to keep a similar digital record of Orion’s.   Here’s to equal opportunity blogging!

So cute…

Hilarious “poopy face.”

A couple of important milestones…

(Read this to review Leif’s first bottle experience…still a poignant memory.)

Welcome to your world, my dear…

This one just cracks me up…thanks Auntie Marlene!

Some of Leif for good measure…

And please, try to remember: