It All Started Two Weeks Ago.....

So I have had a pretty eventful two weeks. It all started last last last Friday when we welcomed Logan into our family a month earlier than we expected. I went in for a routine exam where my doctor decided that Logan wasn't doing a good enough job growing inside me, so he sent me downstairs to Labor and Delivery to wait around for 5 hours before he went in and got him. It makes no sense to me but apparently babies who are lazy bums about growing inside mom tend to be less lazy about it if they have to fend for themselves (sink or swim, kid. Time to cut the cord, I guess :) ). Anyway, one c-section later, I doubled the number of children I have and reduced my gross hours of nightly sleep by 75%.

Logan joined the family on April 23 at 5:21 pm local time clocking in at a whopping 4 lb 11 oz and 18 inches. He is giving Katherine a run for her money by threatening to overtake her as the cutest child on the planet. Once he fills out a bit and starts looking less like an undercooked roast, we'll see if Katherine retains her title as "Fairest in the Land." But for an undercooked roast, Logan is pretty stinkin' cute!

See!!

Katherine likes him pretty well too

But this is not all. Two weeks after Logan made his debut, Casey graduated from college for what I sincerely hope is the final time. He walked across the stage and received his diploma cover and hood for a PhD in Math (I know, what a smarty, huh?) that he will actually complete in a few months. Casey was a good sport and walked for me. If it had been up to him, Casey would have spent last Friday holed up in his office thinking mathy thoughts and completely ignoring the fact that the building next door was filled with his colleagues wearing funny hats and dresses and marching around to "Pomp and Circumstance" while their adoring families looked on. But luckily my husband thinks I'm cute and can't resist my eyelash-batting, so I got to be one of those adoring family members. Proof of the power of eyelash-batting can be found below:

This is Casey being hooded by a professor who is on his defense committee

A little explanation of this picture is required. Again, it's all about the eyelash-batting. I wanted a photo of Casey showing off his hood a la blushing bride showing off her train and he obliged, quite convincingly too. You can't even tell that there was much eye rolling mere nanoseconds before the shutter snapped. Seriously, if you are a wife and you want your husband to do something, just bat your eyes and smile. Works every time!

But this is still not all. Seriously, more momentous stuff happened to me in the last two weeks, but I will only add one more thing because this entry is already WAaaaayy too long. A couple of nights ago, I suffered my second stab wound by a steak knife. Oddly enough my sister was indirectly involved in both stabbings. The first time, I was eight and I got stabbed in the leg which required 50-ish stitches, but I won't bore you with the details. The second time was on Saturday.

I was minding my own business in the kitchen and grating cheese to put on top of a cassarole, when my sister walked by and accidentally (at least that's what she says....) knocked a steak knife off the counter. This knife landed on/in my foot causing severe lascerations requiring a trip to the couch and a couple of those dot bandaids and a kiss from Katherine. Fortunately there are no photos of my injuries. My foot is so mangled, it would make you sick, or more likely you wouldn't be able to find the scratches since they're pretty much healed. Still, I have to wonder about that sister of mine.....