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Grandpa Lew, the baby whisperer, has been helping us since Saturday. He has some crazy mad baby calming skills. Sadly today he had to head back to CT. He said something about having to work and go to school. Hello!? Grandpa? Where are your priorities? I’m going to go sing Nicholas Cat’s in the Cradle.

I was just going through the photos on my memory card and I noticed that I cropped this photo down for an earlier post: Here is the original photo: I think he is giving me the middle finger! I’m not sure if I should be impressed or send him to his room.

Vivian took some amazing photos while she was visiting on Saturday. More of them here .

Here are Mom’s favorite photos she captured while she was here.

Nicholas slept from 11pm-1am last night (yay!). Then he yelled from 1am-5am (boo!). At 5am we finally got him to sleep and then handed off to Grandpa Lew (in from CT) for the morning shift. What I don’t understand is how this little seven pound boy can yell four straight hours. I feel like at […]

My parents stayed for the weekend and helped us get the basics for Nicholas’ room. The 5am Nicholas hand-off to somebody on the east coast timezone was delightful. Mom barely let the boy out of her sight. Nicholas did great during the Michigan game yesterday. He definitely cried more when Minnesota had the ball and […]

Notable quotes from the hospital stay: “You haven’t been eating, scallop potatoes, for three weeks…like we have.” -verse from song now stuck in all our heads “So expect the pain to be about 4-6 times as bad as it is now.” -nurse to Mary, being perhaps a bit too honest “When Nicholas was born he […]