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Year 33: Could This Be It?

It's been since mid-February that I've written.  Let me go ahead and get you up to speed on the past 9 months. Evan Matthew was born February 21.  To make a long story short, like my labor was, I went the caster oil route this time.  As Kellen chanted "chug it, chug it, chug it" I held my nose and swallowed the slimy goo mixed with orange juice around 8pm.  Three hours later, I was in active labor.  Two hours after that, I was holding Evan in my arms.  He cried, I cried, and I shook like I was having a seizure, because apparently that's what happens after delivering a baby.  He was a little guy coming in at 7lb 4oz and 20.5".   So, today marks my little Evan's 9 month birthday.  He is thriving; pulling himself up on the couch, fireplace (safe? probably not), stairs and crawling around this house at speeds that I should probably be recording.  And then there's my firstborn, Khloe.  She's ginormous.  My mini-me is the most...