Month: May 2016

Welcome Tobias Graham Stern

Family, Toby

On the morning of Friday, May 27 we welcomed Tobias (Toby) Graham Stern at 8:25am. The scheduled c-section delivery went smoothly and we were back in recovery holding our newest bundle of joy by 9:30. Toby weighed 8lbs 12oz (smaller than his brother, much to the surprise of our doctors and ultrasound screenings the past few months) and 20in. We are over the moon in love with this little boy already!

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I have this exact same picture from the morning when Luke was born. However, Toby arrived a little quicker than Luke did 🙂

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Many thanks to Dr. Ziock and the amazing Dr’s and staff at Western PA Women’s Healthcare, as well as Maternal Fetal Medicine at Magee for taking such good care of our family.

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Already givin’ Dad the stink eye!

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He had so many visitors in the hospital and was surrounded by love from the moment he arrived.

Many thanks to Grandma, Pup, Nana & PapPap for keeping an eye on Lucas while we were at the hospital.

We got to go home the day before Memorial Day and have a quiet afternoon with our family.

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Murray and Theo welcomed Toby as well as they did Lucas nearly two years ago. We are so lucky to have such wonderful boxers.

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How thoughtful is this? The Third Grade Class at SSA welcomed Toby home with the cutest “Welcome to the World” sign. We are truly blessed to have some many wonderful people in our lives and the lives of our boys.

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Big Brother Lucas has not even blinked an eye and loves helping in any way he can just in the first few days Toby has been with us. Welcome to the family, Toby! We can’t wait to watch you grow.

xoxo,

Mom & Dad

We Bought A House!

Family, Home

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This past Tuesday we closed on our first home! Yup, we made the big leap, while standing on the doorstep of welcoming our second little boy, and purchased a new-to-us home!

We spent the last year and a half (yes, you read that correctly) looking at houses but were never able to find “the one.” When January came we said “till the last week of March” – if we didn’t find anything by then, we were waiting until the fall. Low and behold, on March 28 we submitted our offer in a multi-bid situation and it was accepted.

We’ve spent the past few weeks packing as much as we could where we’re currently living, and well knowing that once the baby arrives I will be of no help at all – which is quite possibly driving me more insane than getting ready to give birth.

We are so excited for this to be our family’s home and to finally be able to make things “ours” where we are living. The neighborhood is fantastic and we have a yard! Murry and Theo are going to be in heaven and the back deck is amazing. It’s everything we’ve been looking so long to find and standing on the front porch, it already feels like home. I can’t wait to see all the memories that we make raising our boys in this home.

Ok, I’m going to go look at paint colors and pin 1,000 decorating ideas.

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