Back to "Normal"

Things have been pretty busy since Lucas' surgery June 14th. We had the delivery of lovely Eliana, Grandma and Grandpa Brooklyn came to visit, post-op and postpartum appointments, trip to NY (which I would never recommend so fresh from the knife with one so fresh from the womb, though it was nice to see family), more doctor appointments and finally, settling in to home life. I'd say the past two weeks have been about finding normal.

There is still a ton of stuff to do around the house. The transition of bedrooms, Lucas into his new big boy room and Eliana into the crib room, is still incomplete. I'm still a bit of a house and in between maternity and "normal" clothes, so both are taking more then their fair share of space. We still have chaos from what was put into storage while our house was on the market and I really should get outside and groom our landscaping. I get a little accomplished every day, but most days it is only a very little. These things battle with the every day needs of laundry, dishes, cleaning and cooking, not to mention the snuggles and therapies and diapering and feeding of the kiddos. :) It all will get done eventually, I will organize the bedrooms, lose these 20ish pounds, and get outside once it drops below 100 degrees, actually, preferably below 90. :)

This version of normal is good, but we are about to embark on a whole new Normal beginning next week. Monday morning, August 16th, Lucas will be attending his first day of preschool. This is our last week with his therapists who have been with him over the past three years and he will begin getting all his therapies through school. He will be there from 8:30-11:30 Monday through Thursday and, rest assured, I am totally prepared to cry. I can hardly believe that he is, so fast, such a big boy. (Of course, then I look at him and realize what a moose he is and there is no denying!) I know that I will miss him terribly while he's at school, especially in the beginning, but I am excited about it. We will establish a new routine and Eliana and I will get some time just the two of us too. Hopefully in the time Lucas is in school I will get my shopping and exercising and napping in. (You realize my priorities in the previous sentence are not in order, right? Can you guess which is really number one?)

I will update again soon, telling you all about how I wept uncontrollably as I sat in the parking lot of the school after leaving my beloved son with practically complete strangers and how, with each passing day, I wept a little bit less and grew more and more proud of my handsome little moose. I'm sure there will be other things to tell as well. There will also likely be more pictures. For now, here's what we've been taking lately. There are more on the camera that have yet to be uploaded online, but we should get them added in the next few days.

For now, enjoy the pics and be blessed!

Eliana - week two

Early Summer 2010

Late July 2010

Early August 2010