My darling boy, Your laughter is beautiful and your smiles come so easy. You continue to be a really happy little boy. Unless you are in a new environment in which case you cry a sobbing, terrified wail. That’s been a new development this past month, the scared thing. It started the week before Easter […]

y sweet Henry, When you were first born, I saw you next to a four month old baby and I thought to myself that four months seemed so old. It felt eons away from where we were at the time, both in development and in actual time. Now look at you: you’re four months old. I […]

Oh, my sweet boy. There’s a saying that time flies, that it goes by in the blink of an eye. And, while that’s kind of true, the other week I said to your daddy, “Can you believe it’s only been 11 weeks since he was born? I mean, only 11 weeks ago.” Because it seems like you’ve […]

y sweet Henry, I remember my sister telling me once that a child’s first birthday is as much a celebration of the child as it is of the parents. “We’ve made it,” they say. “We made it through the first year.” This is how I feel about the months passing. You’re two months old now and while I can’t believe how quickly you’re […]

My beautiful, sweet boy. You are one month today and I feel an equal mixture of astonishment that you’ve been with us for a whole month already and amazement that it’s only been a month that we’ve know you. This month has definitely been a blur, passing by in a haze of exhaustion, sleep deprivation, […]