Peace. Quiet. It often takes a week away from home for me to use these words in conjunction with my life as normal. Vacations are nice, but when your kids are little, they are stressful. Aside from the worry that Luke was going to tumble down the stairs, Trey was going to have a meltdown from his late bedtimes, and having so much we wanted to do in so little time, we had a great time visiting family in Michigan.
We were lucky because we not only got to celebrate Thanksgiving, but also the birth of sweet baby Ethan. Ethan is our boys' 9th cousin. He is also one of the reasons we are adopting Sasha. If my sister-in-law had not discovered that she was pregnant with him, she and her husband would have stepped up to adopt Sasha first. Ethan was born on November 23rd. He weighed 8lbs 8oz. He is mostly healthy, but he has an enlarged kidney from what seems to be a blockage. Doctors have known about it since the 20 week ultrasound, and they have monitored it, but there was nothing that could be done until he was born. He is going to have lots of doctor visits and a barage of tests, but we are praying for his health and we know that God is in this.
Our boys had so much fun playing with their cousins. Trey and Emily were inseparable, and Luke surprised me by not acting jealous at all while I held Ethan.
Luke really took to Aunt Sara...either it was all of those pregnancy hormones she was putting out there or he's trying to replace me :)
This is how you will find us for the next week, hunkered down.
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