The whole family is at home now. Drake is doing great, even though he was circumcised today. Dane is doing well too (he was circumcised too, but not today). He has been a little crabby today, but I think it more to do with how much he slept last night, than having a new little brother. I think the hardest part so far, has been trying to contain Dane while holding Drake. Well... and not sleeping much...

Drake is still at the hospital with Renee. He is eating well most of the time (usually all but one feeding). On Thursday, they had to put in a feeding tube to pour Renee's milk in, when he wouldn't eat. She feeds him every 3 hours and is exhausted. I've been staying up there as much as I can, while my Mom watches Dane. Still... there isn't a whole lot I can do. I try to make sure Dane doesn't think we've abandoned him. This has been difficult for the whole family. Hopefully, Drake will be coming home early this week.

Since this blog is about Dane, let's not leave our fearless little man out of the posts any longer. Last month, we stayed at a friends house for my 20 year high school reunion (yes... I'm that old...). Dane stacked up all of the pillows off of their couch. He would jump onto them like a stunt man. He missed on this one:


I've been think of starting a new blog for both of the boys... Thought about naming it... are you ready for this?... Raising Double D's...

Dane is amazing! We took him into see Drake for the first time yesterday. I didn't think he would really understand what was going on, but when we went back to see him again today, he was saying "Dake! Dake!" He knows his little brother.

We were also a little worried about how he would touch him when he got close enough. I was amazed at how soft he touched Drake. And I have the pictures to prove it!!!!!

Check out the shirt Renee made for him!
The new family picture.

Our little man came into the world 5 weeks early. He weighs 4 pounds, 8 ounces. He is 18 inches long. Mommy, Daddy, Dane and Drake are all doing well! More later...

Good view of the bonus room!

A quick family picture of us at the Zoo. Dane was great! The first animals we went to were the monkeys and he loved it. We started to leave to see more animals and Dane turned into "collapse-a-kid." He didn't quite have the understanding that there would be more animals. We told him there were lots of other animals to see, but I don't think he believed us until we saw the bears. We had a great time! Renee is doing wonderfully and we are about a month away from the "Deuce!"

I tried to upload these to Blogger last week and I was having problems. So really... they aren't the most recent pictures. Tomorrow, we are going out to take more pictures and I'll try to upload them. Currently, the second floor exterior and interior walls are up (maybe even some of the roof).



The windows will actually be the same from the great room (windows on the left) all the way down to the basement. A little mess up that they are going to fix soon.

We are so excited!!! I'll try to post more tomorrow!