For those of you that don't know our daughter Elin Story Sundquist-Shuck was born on August 3rd and weighted in at 9 lbs even. My labor was long, everyone said that the second one is easier, I'm not so sure about that. My water broke on Sunday night and I had her at 7:30 on Tues morning. She is beautiful as you can see from the pictures. Liam is handling it well, he hasn't ask if we can take her back yet. He is very proud of her and always tells people about her when we are talking to them. Having 2 is a big adjustment but we are all working through it...some days are easier than others.
We had a busy summer traveling and visiting with family. We were members of a great CSA in the Mat-Su Valley at Spring Creek Farm
. It was great to have fresh local veggies all summer. This was a very rainy summer so we had lots of greens and root veggies.We were traveling at the beginning of the summer, I went back to Vermont to finish my masters at the School for International Training, it was really hot there. Liam stayed at Mimi and Poppy's for 10 days, it was the longest we have been apart but we all did really well. I only cried once and I don't think he cried at all.
Fall is in full swing here in AK. We have 2 Halloween parties to attend and Liam has decided he wants to be James the ta
nk engine (if you have young children you know what that means). Elin and I a
re going as a gardener and a potted plant. He is getting old enough to get into the holidays, its really cool to see him get excited about it. He knows about candy but the idea of trick or treating hasn't set in yet. We will get some pumpkins soon to carve and I will upload some pics of that and the costumes. We made cookies and frosted them last night. I think he ate more frosting than he frosted but he is getting the idea.
