The Mixed-Up Adventures of the Merry Mederich's.

Well, I didn't blog on July 21st as I intended, but there is a very good reason for that.  On Sunday, July 21, the Justin Mederich's embarked on a 6 day trip to California to visit Justin's grandparents on his mom's side.  This entry will serve as both an update on Soren's 2 months of life, as well as some pictures from our trip out west. So, what is Soren up to these days?  He's becoming very engaged with the world around him.  He looks around and follows things with his eyes.  He smiles a bunch and tonight after his bath time he even laughed a little bit. So stinkin' cute!!  He's been eating well and nurses about 9 times a day.  I'm so happy to have been able to stay home longer with Soren and establish our nursing relationship for longer before returning to work.  Sleep has been good too.  Last night he even slept for a 9 hour stretch!  That certainly isn't the norm (yet), but I'll enjoy it when it happens.  Hooray for sleep!...

Since this blog is more or less my scrapbook, I set a goal of blogging twice a month.  My aim is to blog on date of the month that each of my kids were born.  Via was born November third.  Today is July third.  Today I blog about Via.  Via is such a joy to be around.  She is sweet and bright and a mostly happy little girl.  Bringing Soren home wasn't super easy for her.  It's hard to all of a sudden share your parents when you've previously had them all to yourself.  Her reaction to little brother hurt my feelings a bit.  Since she saw me holding and feeding him so much she clung hard to daddy and didn't want much to do with mommy.  With postpartum hormones going crazy, I did quite a bit of crying the first few days.  It didn't take long for things to level off though.  Via realized Soren wasn't going anywhere and that mommy still loved her.  She still gets whiny about sharing our attention sometimes, but who c...