These Small Hours: November 2007

Brecken Jolee

Some more pics of our newest family member...

Cade likes to give his new baby sister kisses!

First Bath

Look at my pretty new do!

More Kisses

Ohhh boy - Cade has a new....

...SISTER!!!! Brecken Jolee Morse was born 11/15/2007 at 6:31 PM. She weighed in at 7 lbs even and was 19.75 inches tall. Mom and baby are both doing well. Cade will get to meet his new sister first thing in the morning.

Remember

One year ago today, four of my co-workers and their pilot lost their lives in a plane crash near South Bend, Indiana. They had flown there for the day for a client meeting and were on their way home. I don't want to remember how horrible that day was, but I do want to remember how it changed my outlook on life and death and how it strongly reinforced how quickly a loved one can be taken from us with no warning. Five people lost their life partner that day, ten lost a child, and eleven lost a parent much too soon. To me that is unimaginable, but real.

I will never forget them.

Cade's New Bed

Back in August (August 18th to be exact), Cade made the switch from his crib to a "big boy" bed. We went through an adjustment period where the lack of bars to hold him in was just a little too tempting for the explorer in him. We really started questioning ourselves if we made the right move by taking him out of his crib, but we're happy to report that he is doing great now and I'm sure it's a transition that we would have had to go through no matter when we made the switch.

We still keep a gate up in the hallway so he can't roam the entire house if he wakes up in the middle of the night. Mostly that is so I can have peace of mind and get some sleep myself.

Once in a while, we get the ladder out and let him climb up and check out the top bunk, but I think it will be awhile (10 years or so) before he gets to actually sleep up there. We're still waiting for one of the grandparents to test it out! : )

One one side of the bed are shelves that go all the way down to the bottom of the floor. (You can see this behind Jim in the last picture). One night we woke up to Cade crying and saying, "Daddy, I'm stuck! I'm stuck!" So Jim went in there to see what was going on and Cade had somehow squeezed down through the crack between his bed and the shelves and was on the bottom shelf! And we even keep a big body pillow in that space, so we have no idea how he got himself down there, but we got a chuckle out of it. We have also found him sleeping half on/half off the bed standing up, sleeping on the floor, and sleeping in the hallway.