The Skarin Family Blog

After such a busy weekend, this was a relatively low key week…just what we all needed. With the holiday and then class night and graduation at NHS, Bruce was only in the office on Tuesday and Thursday. I have been very spoiled with how much time he has been home in the last 6 weeks. It has been great! If...

I think it may be safe to say after this weekend that Evan could win a contest for how many parties/gatherings he has been to at such a young age. It’s tough when there are so many people so anxious to meet you. This weekend was filled with friends and family, all of whom loved meeting Evan. Not only was...

I thinkthe pictures speak for themselves as far as telling the story of Evan’s first bath. You will notice that he is nice and calm in the before and after pictures but that during was quite a different story. We kept trying to tell him that he would eventually come to love bath time but I don’t think he quite...

We were so fortunate with the amount of time that Bruce was able to take off from work but it still flew by, especially considering that we had almost two weeks alone before Evan arrived. While it might have been nice to have Bruce home longer after Evan was born, it was nice to the time that we did have...

Seeing as we will now have a regular backseat rider, we knew it was time to get rid of the Solara and get another 4-door car. We had done our research and knew that we were looking for a white Acura TSX before Evan arrived. We had test-driven one and had found a few online with low mileage that were...

With Adria and Avi visiting from DC and Laura, Mark and Henry (who is absolutely adorable!!!) visiting from Alaska, we all decided that the best and easiest way for everyone to get together and meet Evan would be for us to host a gathering where the girls and their boys came to us. It was hard for me to commit...

Our second week at home proved to be much less eventful than the first.  We had begun to figure each other out a bit more and were falling into a nice rhythm.  We celebrated Grandpa Bob’s birthday on Monday the 17th, spent some more quality time with Grandpa Bob and Omi before saying goodbye to them on Wednesday the 19th,...

When Uncle Dan and Aunt Karin came to see us at the hospital then left Danny and Sean at home with Grammy. This was good for two reasons. One: I was so tired from the c-section that I don’t think I would have been able to handle Danny’s energy. Two: We don’t really know if the kids would have been...

Our first adventure out of the house together since arriving home on Tuesday was to take Evan to the pediatrician for a one week weight check. With the help of Omi and Grandpa Bob, we were able to shower, eat and leave the house on time. Evan’s pediatrician was out of the office so we saw one of the doctors...

Our life at home with Evan starting out pretty smoothly…for the first few hours anyway.  We got settled, Gramma and Papa arrived and we were visiting with them when things started to go awry.  Papa was about to feed Evan when we discovered that the bottle was leaking.  Problem 1 quickly fixed.  Evan took his bottle, burped like a champ...