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Hey there! Liz, I just wanted to say that I'm so glad Katie's surgery went so well and that she seems to be recovering comfortably. I'm also so sorry about your grandpa and my thoughts and prayers are with you and your family. You really did have a rough week. Everything is good here. I'm getting settled into life with 3 kids under the age of 3. The biggest challenge is that Seth and Lilah love to antagonize each other and just torture one another and I simply don't have time to referee right now. And they usually choose the times when i'm nursing to need something or attack each other. =) Isaac is doing well. He's big and healthy. My biggest challenge with him is that he has an insatiable appetite. The kid is constantly starving! I'm making plenty of milk. But he just wants to nurse like every hour! I don't have time for that either. =) But we've been blessed with family helping out this last week and friends here in Columbus are bringing us meals until the middle of December. They're also calling me like daily to see if I need them to pick anything for me at the store, etc. What a blessing! The labor and delivery went well. They started me on the pitocin and after a couple hours, the contractions were diminishing as the pitocin increased. So I asked for my edidural and had them break my water and we had the baby within 2 hours. I pushed for like 10 minutes and Isaac was strong and healthy and I only had a 1st degree tear. yay! This is significantly better than the 3rd degree tear I had with Seth. =) Isaac has been a little jaundice and has been a bit finicky with breast feeding. But we're getting it figured out. So, that's it for us at this point. thanks for all your thoughts and prayers this past week. Love you girls!