Peanut has been doing very well the last few days and continues to gain weight – 4lb 5 oz as of yesterday. Little things are signs of big progress – recently, she’s starting to wake up hungry and take at least a portion of her feedings by bottle – earning her the nickname “Rock Star” […]

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This is the first official post from me, the DW (Dear Wife), as I am affectionately called by my DH. I will be guest blogging with updates of our little Peanut’s progress. Previously, we were updating our family and close friends via email, but we thought it was time to update our blog and start […]

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With the events of the last few weeks (more on that tomorrow) I’ve been a little behind on some of the updates I was originally going to post a while back. There’s quite a list at this point – even when things are normal, there’s a ton of things going on this time of year […]

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There’s been a lot going on this week… so much that it’s been difficult to get any of it listed on here. Peanut – as she’ll be called going forward – is one week old today and still in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at the University of Iowa Children’s Hospital, so I spent all […]

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I don’t have a nick-name for her yet, but after insisting on coming into the world 9 weeks early and throwing us all for a loop (she already had the six of us sleeping under five different roofs last night) I’m sure I’ll come up with something fairly quick. So, without further ado…

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No Flash Back Friday this week, but you will still get a little glimpse of the house. LuLu grabbed the camera last weekend and started snapping away. I hadn’t realized how many photos she had taken until later when I had to clean over 200 pictures from the camera. One thing is for sure, she’s […]

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We have a problem in the garden. Over the coarse of the last week, I started noticing zucchini and summer squash either missing or half eaten. I first noticed it one night while LuLu and I were out burning off a little extra energy. LuLu loves to pick the summer squash, so she made a […]

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We could have picked a better year for the kiddos to have started out with a pumpkin patch. With the lack of rain and high temps there’s been a few days when things weren’t looking so good – it’s hard to stay excited about a wilted vine day after day. There’s only so much watering […]

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Earlier this week I decided it was time to dig the potatoes. Actually, it wasn’t much of a decision. We had finished super early that evening thanks to a pan of lasagna my sister-in-law dropped off and Sissy was off working with her steer for the fair with my brother. (More on that to come.) […]

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Prior to our unplanned “vacation” a couple weeks back, we had plans on traveling out of town for a very close friend’s wedding last weekend. Needless to say with the DW on bed rest, that wasn’t happening now. Since everyone was looking forward to it, the kiddos’ grandparents offered to take Sissy and Potato Boy […]

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