Kids
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Be My Valentine
I ordered the kids’ classroom exchange cards online because I haven’t had time to go to a store. Feels kinda apathetic but I’m at a “whatever is convenient- done is better than perfect”…
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GI Doctor Visit
Baby Henry went to the pediatric gastroenterologist (GI doctor), who met us with a dietician. The pediatrician, pulmonologist, and swallow study all pointed to a GI in figuring out any underlying causes for…
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Swallow Study
Baby Henry’s medical providers want to make sure he’s not silently choking and protecting his airway when he eats from a bottle, so they had us do a really cool test called a…
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At the Cardiologist
Monday we had a giant change of plans. Our pediatric cardiologist had an opening from a cancellation so we went with about an hour’s notice. I got everything ready in a half hour,…
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Ice Cream Mother-Daughter Date
Happy New Year! It’s been a bit of a crazy time with a new baby at home. We hardly leave the house, so our Mother-Daughter dates were put on hold for a bit…
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Portraits of Newborn
I’m getting so much practice in capturing these tender moments of our sweet Henry. We are all taken in with his charms. It’s not all a bed of roses here; the hard moments…
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Home with Baby
These first few days at home with Baby have been a sleepless trial by fire. There’s a learning curve and getting into a rhythm again. Baby didn’t sleep or eat well the first…
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NICU Diaries: Graduation
It’s Week 17! Baby is 44 weeks corrected gestational age. Read about last week: Week 16! Day 113: Discharge Day Lily picked out Henry’s “going home outfit”, a footie pajama with snowmen on…
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Creative Kids… Back In My Day
Fletcher has this icebreaker idea at the dinner table where we pretend we are old folks. In a silly almost Southern accent he says things like, “Back in my day, we didn’t have…