Best Friends!

Baby Georgie met her new friend, Baby Siri! (my friend Cheryl's new baby girl)

First Day of School (as in "pre")

A hurricane named Iris hit Step by Step last week...our girl has started preschool! Let's just say Ms. Sophia tried very hard to reframe some of Iris's challenging behaviors in a positive way when I asked how Day One went. Day Two was much smoother reportedly. We hope for success this week when she returns tomorrow!

One of my favorite days ever

Tom and I agreed that Sunday was really pretty close to a perfect day. We enjoyed a spontaneous day with our friends, the Marinaro Family, (the very attractive Italian family featured in this post) exploring an apple orchard, a state park, and the cute town of Marine on St Croix. We were blessed with great weather, a well-behaved Iris, a baby that slept and ate at all the right times, and good company.

Of course perfection doesn't last. 12 hours after we returned home I came down with a nasty case of mastitis.

9/2 update:

The top picture is Iris at 4 weeks. The girls look so much alike!

A brief summary of the past almost 3 weeks...Baby Georgie came 2 weeks early. Tom sprained his ankle two days after we came home from the hospital. Iris stopped sleeping thru the night ( an accomplishment she just achieved at age 2 by the way) and is often up more than the newborn! Ongoing basement remodeling including two days without running water makes Chelsey crabby and feeling much like pioneer housewife having to fetch water from neighbors. Iris fractured one tooth and chipped a second one creating an awkward smile and the likelihood she may lose a tooth. When told this she informed me the Tooth Fairy would bring her a gift and also that the tooth fairy is Mommy. Tired Mommy.