I’ll skip the “Where has time gone? We meant to post a long time ago!” spiel and just get to the meat and bones of the post.

Our house has been used more as a home recently than a place to swing a hammer and wield a crowbar. Maybe it is because we have decided to take it easy? Maybe to sit back and enjoy a cold one? I don’t know. It surely couldn’t be the 8lb baby in the bassinet that has made us rearrange our lives.

We welcomed Adley into the world mid-June. She was 7lb 9.9oz, 20.5in, and came with healthy vocal cords pre-installed. Casey has been doing her best to get Adley into tip-top (as in, “topping the scales”) since she was born. Brendan was a chunky-monkey when born, so we figured Adley may as well follow in his footsteps .

It is amazing how things change when you go from one child to two. You would think the work load would be about double, but I swear it is quadruple what it is with one child. Casey asked me the other night who I thought Adley looked more like. I realized then that I haven’t even had enough time alone with Adley to actually really look her over and figure out important things like that .