Going under the needle: part 1 of 3

You may have seen the teaser of my newest tattoo I posted on instagram. If you missed it here it is again. 

I had wanted to get my tattoo for baby Soren while Sam was still here so that he could see it in person. We both love the tattoos we got for Enolah but knew we wouldn't go back to the same girl because 1) She moved and 2) We found noticeable (to us) errors in our pieces and knew we could get better! So I started asking around. Several people had been raving about Jack Brown's Tattoo Revival and a friend of mine even got a beautiful full quarter sleeve done there, check out her journey on her blog. 

I went in with an idea, as I prefer to let the artist do their artistic thing and booked three appointments to get it all done. So today we dropped on Enolah to play with a friend and headed down to Fredericksburg. I was so excited to finally see my idea come to life. Sam handled the baby (extremely well for being a boob loving newborn) while I sat for my first session. Took about 3 hours and the pain was almost non existent which was a pleasant surprise.  

Here is the existing product. I love it and I'm so excited that it's only going to get better!

The bird is a bluejay for our little Soren Jay. 

Stay tuned for sessions two and three. 

My sweet little piglet is one month old today! He got that nickname just a few days into life when he would snort while he was rooting around for the boob (still does). Well is he ever living up to it! Today he weighed in at 11 pounds 3 ounces. A weight his big sister didn't reach until 2 months and 3+ pounds over his birth weight. I think we definitely have a future football player on our hands, something daddy is very excited about.

A brief look at the last month:

Soren in the belly, courtesy of my good friend. 

Born August 7th, check out his birth story here.

One whole month old!

And for comparison, big sis Enolah at one month old. 

back to blogging.

I have finally decided to get back into blogging. Back into blogging you ask? Why yes. I had a very brief stint in blogging back in 2009! Check out my three whole posts here. I obviously did not keep up with posts, but with the two kids now I feel like I have so much more to share. I'm always creating something for them or the house and they are changing everyday, what better way to document our adventures. So I invite you into all that we've created.