5 years!!!!

We have survived
5 years of marriage
4 years of dental school
3 moves
2 kids
1 year of residency
together and still just as much in love!!!!

Mamma Was Here

Grandma (Jessica's mom) came to visit and help out with the baby, but mostly Addi occupied her time.
We went swimming.
Went to a 4th of July BBQ.
Aidan sporting his 4th of July attire. Addi wore this same shirt on her first 4th of July (but she was 3 months old).
Watched some fireworks.
Addi's first sparklers.
Daddy had one more day off work and we spent it at the beach. I spent much of it sitting with the baby under a Dora umbrella, because no one had beach umbrellas left.
See such Dora umbrella.
Addi enjoyed building sand castles and burring her legs in the sand.
Addi didn't like getting in the ocean (I think she is still traumatized from getting knocked over by a wave when we were in cali) so we cooled off at the splash pad instead.
I thought it was fun to have a splash pad at the beach. It was a great way to wash off the sand.
We ended our day at the beach with ice cream.
Another day that mamma was here we went to the Trolley Museum.
There have old trolleys to ride and they even have old fashion tickets you get punch when you ride.



We also went to the fire museum that is behind the trolley museum.
We live in Bloomfield, CT
Grandma gave Addi her first haircut.
We loved having grandma here and miss her very much.

Aidan Michael Sorensen

How did we come up with his name? Aidan was not a name we discussed before our baby was born. We went to the hospital with a couple of boy names and a couple of girl names. After our baby boy was born and people asked what is name was I said we hadn't decided yet. Jared then said that for some reason the whole time during his birth he kept thinking of the name Aidan. When we looked and my long list of names I had made on Jared's ipod Aidan was on there. We still hadn't decided for sure and Jared was looking up names he looked up sibling names for Addilyn and Aidan the the first one on the list. I think he was meant to be named Aidan. Aidan means "strong, masculine" or "little firey one" considering he also has red hair we may have cursed ourselves, but we think it fits him perfectly and so far he is a very good baby. Michael is Jared's middle name and comes from his uncle on his dad's side who died at a young age. So after a couple of days of debating what to name him and then how to spell it we named him Aidan Michael Sorensen. Enjoy the picture over load! (yes I took these pictures except for the ones I am in which either Jared or my mom took. If you would like high quality copy of any of them send me an email.)

Baby Boy

Day 1-Baby Boy is Born
Arrived at the hospital about an hour after water broke at home at 4:30 am. Still smiling, but very ready to have a baby.
I was put on pitocin to get my labor moving faster, causes contractions to get more intense decide I am ready for an epidural.
Two hours later still no epidural (I guess they were busy). Contractions so intense I was crying. There was a lot of hand holding going on. Jared wanted to go get something to eat. I told him he wasn't allowed to leave until I got my epidural. Finally got my epidural. Ten min later I was pushing the baby out(that was close).
After 15 min of very painful pushing (apparently the epidural didn't have time to fully work good thing it was only 15 min)our baby boy was born.
We fell in love with instantly and I so glad there were no complications like with Addi so I could hold him right away. My mom was lucky enough to be on skype with us when he was born.
Thank goodness he was 9 days early because he weighed 9 lbs 14 oz after peeing on me and was almost 23 in long.
We love our big cuddly boy and couldn't have asked for more.
And mommy was very happy not to be pregnant anymore.

Day 2-Big Sister Comes to Visit
The next a very proud big sister came to visit. She instantly fell in love and was very glad that "mommy all better now".





Day 3-Bringing Baby Home
After getting checked out by the doctor and some last min tests we got to bring Aidan (we finally named him) home.