Logan Todd

On April 13th we welcomed our newest member of the family into the world. Logan Todd arrived three days past my due date at 1:13 in the afternoon weighing in at 8 lbs 11 oz and 20 1/2 in. Now each April 13th we will be celebrating both Logan's and my brother's birthdays. After waiting for him to arrived which seemed like forever, it was so amazing to finally meet him. Those first moments of his life are just too surreal to put into words. This time around we were more in the moment which meant less pictures, but I think we still were able to capture the magical time with some photos.

During the first week home we were so fortunate to have a ton of help from our family. Todd's parents were with us for our first weekend home and completely took care of us. I felt so spoiled to be able to solely take care of myself and little Logan. Also, it was so wonderful for Logan to meet his cousin and aunts and uncle. I'm finally able to write this post thanks to my parents who are watching Henry for me today. He has been so wonderful while we all adjust to life with a newborn. I'm pretty sure he was thrilled to get out of the house and spend time with Nonna and Pop without a screaming baby.

Here are some of the pictures from our first days with our expanded family.

Chef Henry

Lately Henry has really enjoyed helping me to cook. We recently made a carrot cake for Valentine's Day and Henry especially loved putting the cream cheese frosting on the cake and loved licking the frosting off the spatula even more (don't worry, the licking occurred after we were done icing the cake).

Didn't look the prettiest, but it was tasty!

Today Henry's specialty was Belgium waffles for breakfast and smiley face pizzas for lunch He has been wanting to try out the new pizza recipe ever since checking it out in one of his High Five magazines. Today was the big day and he had a blast making the faces and piling on the mini pepperonis.

Before

After

Time for Travel

As we get closer to "Duece's" arrival, we wanted to visit with friends and family before we are officially in the no travel zone. A few weeks ago, we traveled to Brooklyn to spend some QT with Uncle Clev and Jenn. Henry loved seeing the city and even got to bowl for the very first time.

The following weekend, we traveled to D.C. to see Uncle Mike, Aunt Jeannine, and cousin Colin. We had hopes to see my cousin, Tracy, from California, but the airlines had different plans. Bummer! I hope Henry's uncomfortable look below isn't foreshadowing how he'll feel when his baby brother arrives. He is actually really into his cousin and hopefully next time we visit he won't have the sniffles so he can actually give the little man a hug.

After D.C. we drove up to Baltimore to see Aunt Kathleen and check out the aquarium. As you can see Henry couldn't take his eyes off all the fun sea life especially the dolphins!



I'm not sure when or where our next road trip will take us, but we will be a family of four (five, really when you count our first born, Riley, the best dog ever). And I couldn't be more excited about that!