Twenty-eleven was a year of dramatic events and great change for our family. Some good, some awful, and all the while we were extremely busy. It all ended on a high note with the birth of Sarah who we are all quite head-over-heels in love with.
We continued tracking Ted’s life (although we missed a few months) and started tracking Sarah’s life.
Ted is 34 35 36 | 41 42 43 44 45 months old
Sarah is 1 2 3 4 weeks and 1 month old
Twenty eleven started off well, with Ted doing well with potty training and sleeping in his big boy bed all through the night. He also got to fly up north with Kate and meet his new cousin Ben.
In March we had two visitors, first Gram flew up to spend some quality time and then Auntie Christine arrived the following weekend. Christine hung around for Ted’s awesome 3rd birthday party and for his first baseball game at NC State.
April was fairly average at first, but turned awful at the end of the month when Kate’s mom Cass became ill and passed away on Easter. None of us were prepared for it, and it’s had a huge impact on our family. Everyone here misses her.
Blogging in May and June took a back seat to a lot of travel, dealing with emotions, and me changing jobs for what I hope is the last time for a while. One high-note of June was getting to meet our new niece Abigail who joined Uncle Josh and Auntie Kristen’s family. Abigail is funny and super-cute.
In July there was more travel up north, and then my folks motorcycled their way up here to spend some time with us. In August cousin Cory came by for a visit and got to bond with her NC family a little. Ted and I also go to have a guys weekend in August while Kate flew up north.
In September our boy started preschool! He looks like he’s ten in his backpack. We also had a visit from our friend Scott, making his first trip to the After Victory homestead. We also made a trip out to western NC to visit aunts Deirdre and Jackie, which was lots of fun.
October was rough – my grandfather got pretty sick and passed away. Not only was it super-sad, but I had to leave my very pregnant wife at home to fly up to the funeral, which made me nervous the whole time on top of sad. (Of course my concerns were pretty unwarranted, as Sarah was born 8 days past her due date!).
In November we did a lot of waiting! Lucky for us we had a lot of family in town to keep us entertained. Ted was very busy - taking a sibling how-to class, as well as performing Thanksgiving songs at his preschool. The most exciting part of November was Sarah’s actual arrival which came on the 30th.
December was filled with some very helpful family visiting, and a lot of us adjusting to having a new member of our family in the house. Auntie Christine set some sort of visiting record by being at our place twice in a 3-week span. Christmas day was spent with friends, instead of traveling far-far away like we’ve done the past few years. It was great, Ted got a bunch of very cool stuff and it’s hard to not be happy about Christmas with the enthusiasm of a three-year-old boy around.
There’s lots I’m forgetting – we had more family visits than I wrote down, I think.
After a year like this, we are grateful to have friends and family who care about us, support us, and humor us by reading our goofy blog posts. I hope 2012 is good to us, and good to you.
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2006
2005
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