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Motherhood - this is just the beginning

Posted by Aprille D on Sunday, May 8, 2011, In : Holidays

This is my third Mother's Day.

My first (2009), I celebrated a life in the arms of Jesus, and mourned the loss of our first little one. My second (2010), I celebrated the life growing within me. I appreciated the honor bestowed upon me simply due to the fact that I had conceived two children...I was blessed to have carried life.

This year is different.

I look in the mirror. Where once I saw a slim figure...now I see leftover baby fat, a cesarean scar, and stretch marks. Instead of a made-up fa...
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6 Week Update

Posted by Aprille on Saturday, October 23, 2010, In : Baby Ezra

Ezra is now 6 (almost 7) weeks old! He weighs over 12 pounds now! Milestones this week were more smiles, him grasping onto things, and him FINALLY losing his umbilical cord stump! Last week we bought him this little playmat and he loves to lay there and look at the toys. He kind of is starting to bat at them but I'm not sure if he's really doing it on purpose so much as it's still just his little arms flailing around. Either way it is fascinating!

Things are going so much better for our little...
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thanks mom

Posted by Aprille on Friday, April 2, 2010, In : Family News

I have to just tell the world how thankful I am for my mom and how much she has done for me.

Countless emails, phonecalls, and IM conversations discussing everything from diapers to playyards to epidurals. She's been just a WEALTH of information!

Going with me to the stores to register, helping me know what was essential and what was fluff, giving me things to think about, and asking me the questions to help me think through what I needed.