Number 5

We are welcoming our fifth blessing to the family in January 2013.  We were able to see picutures of this sweet, healthy little baby at 20 weeks.  Taylin and Cohen were at school, but David was able to join me along with Teague and Kennedy.

 This little one will be a tiebraker: 3 boys or 3 girls?

Perspective

After Cohen had been awake for a little bit, I guess he had taken a gander in the mirror (which is hard for the kiddos to do here...they are all so high).  He came down with what most refer to as bedhead and said, "Look, the bed fixed my crazy hair today!" He did so with his dimple smile.  Sure love Mr. Cohen and his perspective.

We are adjusting here.  Most everything is unpacked.  We finally opened up the boxes of decorations a week ago and we hung most of them this weekend.  The basement and a search for a few furniture pieces is all we have left.  We have made it one month.  This single month feels like two months worth crammed into a one.  David finished his first month/rotation.  It is supposedly the easier months, with the exception of elective months.  Knowing that, I had to seriously lower my expectations for the first year.  The simpler month was wild.  He would leave before 6AM and return around 7PM (that means late dinners if we wait).  We do get him home in the evenings, that is a positive.  We are all on summer schedules, which means we stay up until the dusk of the day.  Here is 9PM at the earliest.  Waiting for David to have dinner isn't that big of a deal.  We usually eat around 5:30/6PM, so it has been an adjustment to eat a little later.  This won't work when school starts in two and a half weeks.  He is also on call two times a week.  He works (meaning goes into work) only 6 weekends this year.  Which is huge compared to how many weekends he pulled the last 4 months of residency.  One of those weekends happened to be the first month.  Perspective: one down, wahoo or what a full month!