A June post... told through pictures.

6/30/2013

This June is nearly impossible to blog... so much change and happiness, and so much sadness. So I'm telling it through pictures... as they speak more appropriately than my words at times....

The girls spent the first weekend in June at the Ocean with my family celebrating my grandfather's 80th birthday... Matt and I hung back with Bean and Bit because I had too many mommies waiting to have babies! I do love this picture though... my family is so blessed to have such amazing grandparents in our life.

Tragedy struck this month in the cruelest way it can given what I do for work. My dear friends Sean and Tim gave birth to a gorgeous stillborn baby boy, Samuel Finn on June 10th. I can't bring myself to write much more than this at the moment. The strength I have seen through the love of those two parents has left me humbled beyond words. I will attempt words at some point, as he left a beautiful footprint in this world and in the hearts of many people. Peace be with you, Sweet Sam.

FOUR doula-babies made their arrival in the last weeks of June. One baby was born the day before Father's Day, two babies were born (on the same day) while Matt was in Connecticut and one last one held out until the end of June. I was impressed with myself when it came to finding the inner strength to attend these labors... watching my friend suffer the heartache no mother should ever endure was enough to make me hang up my Rebozo but I sucked it up and found that being in those birth rooms with those parents and the new healthy wriggling babies was enough to reignite the spark I thought had gone out of my doula-engine.

I turned the basement apartment that was formerly occupied by my mom into a playroom! This was exciting... I channelled all of my sorrow and pain after Sam's passing into making an epic playroom and I was pretty proud (and tired) after it was done!

Father's Day! We went out for pancakes with Matt before he hopped a plane for CT to work for 4 days... those 4 days were... uh... yeah. I was outnumbered.

It melted my heart to see all the love and appreciation the kids showed for Matt on Father's Day. He truly is an amazing dad to all of our kids and we are so blessed.

Then Bean got sick. Super sick. It was NOT fun... he had a wicked high fever for nearly a week and we took him into the hospital worried out of our heads that it was something horrid. The guess is it was a virus but YIKES it was not fun seeing all of the energy tapped from his little energetic self.

So really? June can be done... I'm ready for July and the rest of the summer!!!

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The Captains

Matt-
Project manager, guitar playing, iOS lover, Catholic, paleo-eating, crossfit-doing rockstar daddy.

Kate-
Birth Doula , childbirth educator, sings in the shower, liberal, Catholic-ish, Android lover, cupcake baker, toddler-park-chaser, super mommy.

The Crew:

"Boozer"
(the nickname she's had since she was a baby)
Kate's eldest, an avid reader, appendectomy-survivor, vegetable loving wonder-child. She will let you know amazing things about life if you can spare a few minutes to listen.

"Bean"
(His baby name, "Mean Bean" depending on his mood...)
Matt's little man, Aptly defined as "Boy. (n); a noise with dirt on it" As well as a smile as bright as an exloding star and giggles more infectious than MRSA. He's like a dirty-noisy-MRSA-star.

"Bucket"
(the nickname she's had since she was a toddler, since it sounds like one of my favorite literary characters when proceeded by her name "_____ Bucket")
Kate's Middle Girl, a tomboy in princess gear who is rougher, tougher and dirtier than the other three combined. She's also a Jedi.

"Bit"
(also "Little Bit")
Kate's baby girl. I think she has an actual name but being the youngest, it (and she) is often forgotten. We normally find her on top of tables and chairs and fireplaces and swingsets. Often wearing a diaper. occasionally not. She is brilliant and cute and scares the everlovin' shite out of us.

"Bear"
(aka "_____ Bear")
The "glue baby" who holds all of us together... the only genetic child Matt and Kate have together, Elijah is a joyful little man who has blessed our family in many many ways in his short time here so far...