That was fun, what's for dinner? - 5/8/08 evening

Unbelievable. When we fed the boys lunch we were a family of four. Now it is 5:30 and we are headed home with a brand new baby to show them, and it is still not even dinner time yet.

Get to the house and the boys and all of the grandparents are outside waiting for us. We get out of the car, I run around and pull Susie out and we get swarmed by everyone with cameras flashing. Closest we will ever get to the paparazzi I guess. Sure is nice that our third child is getting all of this attention (and this is my parents’ eighth grandchild). I set the infant carrier on the ground so the boys can get a good look. They just stare and smile and point; it is really quite cute.

We all head inside, and see that in addition to all of the cookies I had made earlier, there awaits a red velvet cake that my mother had bought and the boys helped decorate while we were gone. One of the decorations was some sugar-hearts that once Marshall discovered they were edible they became quite the hot commodity.

Try to spend the rest of the evening being as “normal” as we can for the boys’ sake. We get them fed, bathed and into bed by the usual time. My parents take off, so it is back down to Sarah, Grams, Pops and I, and Susannah of course. Sarah and I are pretty tired, but it appears I am way more exhausted than she is. Pretty sad really that she is fairing better than I am. Honestly, what did I do today? Nothing in comparison with her. This happened with the boys as well. We justify/rationalize that she is still riding an adrenaline high. Works for me. I’m going to bed now.