Sophie is now in kindergarten. I can still hardly believe it! Today is her second day and she started to get that "Wait, Mom!" look on her face and then realized that the Daily Question was starting. I blew her a kiss and she followed suit and then turned around and found Tatum and Celia (her two little friends from soccer) and didn't notice me ( Read more... )

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She's here! Labor was crazy fast-- an evening of back pain as my body trumped the meds, and then an hour and a half from losing my mucous plug until the final push. She beat the doctor and doula to it! (Not their faults, of course, and both were there for a few hours after things. In fact, I was the first birth that Nicole had missed ( Read more... )