Coddington, party of four

ooh! i found kevin's post!!!

July 28. 2008

It's been a while since the last post. This is mostly due to the arrival of our newest family member. Simon Aaren Coddington was born on April 17 at 12:11 am. He was eight days late but once he decided he was ready, there was no stopping him. Xandy delivered the 9 pound boy in a whopping 2.5 hours from the time of the very first contraction to the cutting of the umbilical cord.

He and his big brother have been keeping us pretty busy as you can imagine. As we are finding out, life with two kids is much different from one. They are still taking turns napping and Simon is still making sure that Xandy wakes up at least once or twice per night.

Simon is growing like a weed and is now over 16 pounds. He is also developing nicely and learning new skills daily. Just in the past week he drank his first bottle of formula, rolled over and also laughed for the first time. He is currently working on wiggling his way across the floor. Marcus doesn't realize how much his life will change yet again as soon as Simon perfects the crawl.

Xandy has adjusted to being a stay at home mom, and Marcus seems to really like it as well. Aside from sleeping in later, she has taken the boys on numerous trips to the zoo and the museum of flight, as well as to the park and of course that very special place called Target. It's interesting how many more strollers you apparently need when the second kid arrives. We now have approximately 26 strollers at our house, including the borrowed double pictured here.

We have also been busy with the usual traveling. We just returned a week ago from a trip to California. We spent time with family, went to the beach and also visited Legoland and Disneyland.

Next up on the travel schedule is Los Angeles once again for Aaron and Susan's wedding. We're looking forward to adding a sister to the family.