Isaac is five weeks old today, and to celebrate I thought I'd get it together and take some pictures off the camera. Woo! Big accomplishments! Seriously though, Dan's mom went home on Wednesday, so at this point I'm just happy to have survived two days on my own with both kids. There were points on both days when both kids were screaming simultaneously, but they were brief. One morning I got all ambitious and tried to get out of the house. In order to accomplish this I spent every minute from 6:30 a.m. until 9 a.m. getting me, Kate and Isaac dressed and fed, and it was going pretty well until Isaac peed on me during a diaper change. This happens all the time because more than a month into this I have still not mastered the art of changing a boy's diaper without incident. This time I made the rookie mistake of stripping him down and picking his naked self up so I could move all the wet linens out from under him, and that's how he pooped on my clean shirt minutes before I thought we were about to get in the car. That set our departure back by about 30 minutes, so all told it only took us three hours to get out the door. Needless to say the house pretty much looks like it has been ransacked by vikings most days. But I'm optimistic we'll find our new normal in ... I don't know ... a year maybe. I appreciate all the encouragement I've received from moms of more than one. It's good to hear that one day this will seem less like a complicated circus trick every minute of every day.

And now, pictures!

Grammy and Isaac.

Isaac is starting to give us some real smiles, which is so much fun.

But those sweet little newborn sleep smiles are also pretty amazing.

Kate has been keeping it fabulous.

Since we're not quite ready to move Kate into a big girl bed, Isaac has no real room and has been sleeping in a bassinet in our walk-in closet at night. When it's time for a nap I just put him down on whatever flat surface is available. Poor neglected second baby. Of course sometimes he gets our whole king size bed to himself, so it's not all bad.

And now, back to the circus!