Happy 3rd birthday Benjamin

Benjamin celebrated his third birthday this week. Since we were barely home from the hospital with baby Mary, we decided to just have a small family party this year. He still had a lot of fun decorating his own cake (he called it the "Buzz Lightyear lion dinosaur cake") and opening his gifts. (Batman and iron man action figures). Ben's birthday is one day apart from Akane, our foreign exchange student. So they had fun blowing out the candles together. Benjamin also received a new 1/16 size violin. Toby is starting to teach him violin, and we hope to enroll Ben in Suzuki lessons starting this summer. He loves his violin and tells us that he is now a teacher, just like daddy, because daddy plays the violin and teaches, too.

Welcome to the world, baby Mary

Mary Alina Weston was born on Sunday, March 15th at 2:17 a.m. She was 7 pounds 14 ounces, and was 21 inches long. She came out with a full head of beautiful dark brown hair and dark blue eyes. What a cutie! Her brothers are so excited that she finally came out of mommy's tummy (and so is Juliette, since she was born 12 days past her due date).

Juliette attempted to have her vaginally, but after 14 hours of labor (and four hours of pushing), we realized that her head was stuck and was just too big to come out. So she was born via C-section after all. She came home from the hospital Wed. March 18th and is doing well. She is a good little eater and is gaining weight and growing fast.