Family Picture

So I decided now that we are four we should have a family picture taken. I planned outfits, bought some new clothes for those of us who didn't have matching attire and scheduled the appointment on the computer. First appointment: CANCELLED due to ill parent and child. Second appointment: Off we go to the mall with an excited Eva, sleeping Stella and two anxious parents. We get there and Eva becomes a crank pot. Stella gets a gas bubble and Matt and I realize it is like 90 degrees. So here is the pic of two sweaty parents, a cranky child who temporarily stopped cranking to smile and a screaming infant who for a second stopped screaming (mostly because she required being on her stomach!) This may be the only pic of the four of us we ever do!!!

It's the Final Countdown

So the countdown begins for me to return to work. I go back December 16th (Matt's 33rd birthday). I am sad to leave Stella but excited to get back to what I love to do (and get paid for it since I have been working from home for free!). Since Matt has not found a full-time teaching position yet it looks like he may be staying home with Stella for the rest of the school year. I feel better about leaving her home since it is with him than I would if I were leaving her with a babysitter. She is getting so big - she will be 10 weeks old this Thursday. But I still think she is so little to be leaving her with anyone just yet. We never had to leave Eva with anyone until she was almost a year old since Matt was working from home and able to keep her with him. In some ways I hope we have the same experience with Stella even though that means that I am wishing that Matt doesn't get a job, which I feel a bit guilty about!