Our lives as parents

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Milestones at Aden’s seventh month birthday.
Today you are seven months old. You are half as tall as your grandmother-Noni. You are learning to sit up on your own. If fact, you sat up on your own last night for the first time. Your Noni and I laughed and clapped and you just looked up and smiled a great big smile like it was nothing and you knew you could do it all along.

This is my third day back to work after having the kid. I think I get about two hours total time with him at night because my MIL is here taking care of him. The upside of that is I get more sleep this week and that is helping with the adjustment. But, two hours! [...]

It’s my first day back at work. I haven’t cried yet. I have had the joy of everyone asking me how hard it was to leave Aden. That’s the pleasure in working in a big office, you get the same questions multiple times to the point of not wanting to answer the next person who [...]

I dread the crawling stage. Our house is sooo not baby-proofed. This will probably be the last Christmas I can have ornaments on the bottom half of the tree or fancy crystal out on the bottom shelves or anywhere near crawling hands. But the trade off will be watching Aden open his own presents. For [...]