Avery just had her one month check up and weighed in at 10 lbs 14.5 oz. We thought that was a lot but wanted to see how that compared to Zoe. Turns out at 5 weeks, Zoe was 8.5 oz lighter. But charting from birth, it seems they are on the same track. Looks like we are going to have another big one!

Jon Q

Okay, something is pretty clear 4+ weeks into Avery’s life: we don’t take as many pictures of her as we did of Zoe. We love her little face as much as Zoe’s, of course, but I guess we’re just less compelled the second time around to take the same old pictures. Newborns, after all, don’t do much aside from eat, sleep and cry!

With that said, we do still keep the camera close by to document some of these early moments. Here are a few recent shots.

-M

I recently talked about feeling like we had passed our first real parenting test by caring for a newborn and sick toddler simultaneously. What I didn’t know then was that the real test was still to come! After Zoe got better, I became super ill (let’s just say I spent most of Saturday lying on the floor with a bucket); by Monday, neither Q or Avery were feeling 100%. Through it all, Q and I had to hold it together and continue caring for both girls – whether we felt up to it or not.

Having an illness run through the house is incredibly difficult: it not only means aching bodies, but long nights, frayed nerves and frustrated tears. (And did I mention lots and lots of laundry??) I admit to not holding up as well as I could have and to having more than one breakdown these past few days. How are we going to get through this? I asked more than once, including yesterday morning, after waking up from only four hours of sleep. But Q kept telling me to hang in there – that soon we would all feel better, get more sleep and fall back into our “normal” routine – and so we just pressed on.

Thankfully, Q was right. I don’t want to jinx anything, but I feel like we’re through the worst of things, and we’re all slowly returning to normal. And all I can say now is that this bug better stay away for good. We don’t need anymore “tests,” thank you!

-M