From the monthly archives:

February 2010

There Are Baby Albums, And Then There’s This Beauty

February 27, 2010

Not surprisingly, we have a LOT of photos of Violet, and Ruby is destined to enjoy (suffer?) the same fate. So photo albums are at a premium around here. Aunt Meagan made a gorgeous album for Violet when she was a baby, and when Ruby was born, Aunt Meagan and Aunt Amy were quick to [...]

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Wordless Wednesday

February 24, 2010
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Officially a Family of Four: Happily Ever After

February 20, 2010

Fortunately, by the time we brought Ruby home, we were well past the point of protesting things not going according to whatever plans we may have had. So when Violet vomited all over me (twice) about an hour after we got home, we abandoned the cozy spot where we were snuggled together on the couch [...]

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Wordless Wednesday: Sisters

February 17, 2010
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Officially a Family of Four: Coming Home

February 12, 2010

We had hoped that at 37 weeks (technically full term), Ruby would escape any complications associated with prematurity that might require time in the NICU. But although prematurity was never a problem, other concerns sent her there before I even made it out of surgery. Initially, we were told that low blood pressure and tachycardia [...]

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Officially a Family of Four: Ruby’s Birth Story

February 4, 2010

Plans had been made for Ruby to be delivered via cesarean section on Thursday, January 21, at two o’clock. Grandparents were notified, coverage for Violet’s care was in place, and we went to bed Tuesday night running over last-minute things to be taken care of the next day. As usual, I slept fitfully, late pregnancy [...]

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Officially a Family of Four: Prologue

February 3, 2010

As I explained in my last post on the pregnancy, just a few weeks ago we were waiting, and hoping, that the uterine synechiae the high risk docs had identified as inhibiting Ruby’s progress toward the birth canal would snap or otherwise give way and allow Ruby’s head to engage and us to proceed toward [...]

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Officially a Family of Four: Ruby Is Here!

February 1, 2010

And what an entrance she made. On Wednesday, January 20, sirens sliced through the stillness of our street – awash at four o’clock a.m. in the red glow of lights from two fire trucks and an ambulance – to announce her impending arrival, and less than two hours later, she was with us. But I’m [...]

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