Welcome baby Sebastian! (Settle down, it's not my baby!)

Take it easy. I didn't have my baby, you guys. That's not my baby (though it looks like it could be, he's big enough!) No, our dear sweet friends Erin and Jesse welcomed their beautiful baby boy into the world in November, and he's just about the most amazing thing there is in the whole world. These two are going to be such incredible parents, and they already are, and I just couldn't be happier for them. When I got the call that he'd arrived I was shooting a photo booth at a nearby event, and basically just started bawling my eyes out on the spot. In front of everybody. I went to go meet him only an hour or two later and somehow managed to keep it together.

My boys were so excited to meet him a day or so after that, and were so gentle and sweet. I've been sort of worried about how things will go when our little one arrives (especially where Theodore is concerned) but seeing them with him these past couple of months has set my mind right at ease. They have been so warm and loving and soft with him that I know everything is going to be just fine. Look how tiny and scrumptious he is! How am I going to have one of those in my arms on this side of two weeks from now? How is that possible?

I've done this whole newborn thing before, twice in fact, but I just feel like there's going to be something so different this time around. We've got a home of our very own (our own space!) and nobody living upstairs for whom we have to keep our baby quiet. We have wonderful friends and family who live so incredibly nearby to help whenever we may be feeling overwhelmed (or just to bring us food when we need it!) and we've got a freezer filled with frozen meals I've been working on for the past few weeks. I feel so ready and comfortable, and can't wait to see what my newborn babies look like in the sunshine (our basement apartment had almost no light!) I just can't wait to find out what this adventure is like so free from all of the chains that weighed us down the last two times. I'm probably romanticizing it like a mad-woman, but I have such high hopes for a truly magical (however sleepless) time ahead.