Update time! Lots to catch up on… At 47 weeks old, Felix started giving us nose kisses (awww!), and we visited Jon, Katie, and baby Greta (who is three weeks younger than Felix) in Seattle! Felix a...

Oh, spring. Yay, yay, yay! We have had a string of beautiful, sunny days lately, and I've been spending as much time as possible outside (or just on the porch steps with the door cracked, if on...

Time for another update, huh? Somehow I've got a backlog of six weekly Felix pictures to share. The weeks just keep passing, whether I write about them or not! At 36 weeks old (way back in mid-Janu...

Blankie head (top: Arlo, bottom: Felix): Creamed spinach: Aunts and uncles: ...

A somewhat belated Happy New Year! My wish for us in 2013: More sleep! Otherwise, things are pretty great already. When we last talked, Felix was 31 weeks old. A day after my last post, his first t...

We've been hugging our boys extra close these past few days, preoccupied with the horrible shootings that happened this week, both close to home and in Connecticut. My heart goes out to the families a...

Time for another long update! At 23 weeks, Felix rolled from his tummy to his back for the first time (and has continued doing it every so often since then, but it doesn't seem intentional). He sta...

One more Aviatrix, plus a sneak peak of our new door color. I love this yarn color; I'm hoping there's enough left over to make myself a hat with it. I should really be working on sewing Arlo...

Wow, six new orange chair photos to share? I guess it has been a while. At 17 weeks old, Felix found his big kid voice, and he started hollering for fun. I don't remember Arlo going through a loud ...

Happy September! Here is Felix at 13-16 weeks old, making pretty much the same face every time (I swear, he smiles a lot too!). And here's his sweet little almost-bald head at three month...

Wow, lots to write about! I guess that's what happens when I only write one post per month. Here we have Felix at 8-12 weeks old. He's pretty good about hanging out in the orange chair while I take...

Hmm, time seems to be going by awfully quickly. I have three more weeks' worth of orange chair pictures to post--here is Felix at 5, 6, and 7 weeks: Poor little brother! In the past few ...

Felix turned 1 month old on Sunday, and we celebrated with a picnic at Laurelhurst Park. The sun was shining, and we had Pine State biscuit sandwiches and lemonade in Mason jars--a great way to celebr...

Felix is two weeks old! One week: Two weeks: Things are going really well so far. He has been breastfeeding without any problems, which is such a relief. At his two-week checkup, he a...

Here's Felix's birth story! The short version is that I was trying for a VBAC (Arlo's birth story is here), but I ended up having a repeat C-section due to partial placental abruption. Felix and I bot...

He's here! Felix Marshall was born Thursday, May 10, 2012 at 1:42 am, weighing 7 pounds, 11 ounces and measuring 19.5 inches long. I think he looks a lot like Arlo did when he was born. He ende...

Today is baby #2's due date, but he doesn't seem in any hurry to come out. And I was so convinced he'd be born early... Even though my midwives had mentioned that labor in second pregnancies of...

Arlo is 23 months old! Not much new to report this month--Arlo continues to be awesome. He talks a lot, and he picks up new words almost every day. He seems to be moving past the phase where he...

We hit the 37-week mark on Tuesday, I got a haircut, we've got kind-of-healthy oatmeal cookies in the freezer (I substituted half whole wheat flour and added chopped walnuts, and they're still very go...

Here are a couple of Arlo's 22-month orange chair pictures, as promised in my last post. He was in kind of a grumpy mood, having just gotten up from his nap, but the tape measure cheered him up. ...

What a crazy week! My sister Lianna came to visit at the beginning of the week, and unfortunately, Patrick and I came down with a cold almost as soon as she got here. Luckily, she was still able to ge...

Wow, it's March already! Arlo turned 21 months old last week. As you can see in the pictures, his hair has been getting pretty crazy, so a few days ago, I decided to try cutting it myself, ra...

Hmm, somehow it's already the middle of February. We've just finished getting over a nasty stomach bug. Luckily, it only seemed to affect Arlo for a couple hours, and it didn't hit Patrick too hard, b...

My first meeting with Kelly about my diastasis recti went well. She gave me lots of information about the anatomy of the abdominal muscles, what causes diastasis recti, and how to fix it. She confirme...

We had our monthly midwife appointment today. We've seen a new midwife from the group at each appointment so far, and today's midwife told me that I have a pretty significant diastasis recti. She said...

Arlo turned 19 months old a little over a week ago. He is turning into such a big kid! He took to the BabyBjorn toilet trainer potty ring within a day or two, and we've now retired his little p...

We got our final amnio results today, and everything looks normal (also, we have official, 99.999% confirmation that it's a boy). Phew! I'm so glad we can put that behind us and worry about more norma...

Arlo is 18 months old--what a big kid! He continues to comprehend more and more about the world around him. When he's about to do something he knows he's not supposed to do, he'll stop, look ...

Good news--we just got our preliminary amnio (FISH) results back, and they're normal. That means that with 98-99% certainty, the baby doesn't have trisomy 13, trisomy 18, or Down's Syndrome (check bac...

The amniocentesis this morning went well. I spent the prior 24 hours getting more and more freaked out about the baby potentially having trisomy 18, reading stories from other parents online (not a go...

We got some worrisome screening results for baby #2 on Friday. I did the final blood draw for the sequential screen on Tuesday, and based on the results, the baby is at an elevated risk of having tris...

So we have some good news to share--I'm pregnant again! The baby is due May 8, a few weeks before Arlo's second birthday. Here's a scan from our 11-week ultrasound. I think it looks like the baby is w...