Well It's about time I wrote. . .

After some issues with the picture program I finally got it working and so here I am finally writing once more. Isn't my boy cute? Anyway it's been two months and we are all surviving, despite this being a very busy house and the cleaning hardly getting done, we are all still breathing and right now that is enough.

Christopher is a very laid back content little boy and for that I am eternally grateful. He seems to cry only when he's hungry or being smothered by one of his well meaning sisters. Frances just adores him and because of this she is constantly hugging, kissing and cooing at him -- even once trying to pick him up -- that was scary!!!! Elizabeth seems mildly interested, and well Jessica it turns out is like a little mother. The past few days she has been feeding him, changing him, cuddling with him, anything we let her do, and he just seems to sit back and drink all of it in.

The first few weeks he wouldn't sleep in the cradle and that made it very tiring, now he's adjusted to that fine. He even has been going longer and longer at night. For four nights he's actually gone all night and he will go at least four hours. Gil has been amazing taking him until one or two so that I only have to get up for one late feeding. That has been a real god-send and I don't know how I would have survived without that.

So since my last blog, Rose has moved out, we've celebrated her 21st birthday,(We all miss her tons), we've celebrated Frances' second birthday and my Dad's birthday. - we'll keep his age a secret - and we've basically hung around the house. In a few days I will get a tooth pulled and then take a percocet vacation for two days, and then the kids go back to school. This is Elizabeth's first year at school and this is new and scary. I am scared for her, she is sensitive and I hate to think of her being bullied or having her feelings hurt, she is also so funny that I wish I could follow her around just to see and hear the way she interacts with those around her. She is beautiful and smart and growing up and all of that this heart finds hard to take.