We met in 2002 while we were both working at BookPeople in Austin, Texas. We got married on June 18, 2005 and now live in a small house in North Austin with our two dogs, Coltrane and Miles, and our three cats - Gnosis, Nona, and Kali. Brian works as an Editorial Assistant at the University of Texas Press and Elizabeth still works at BookPeople as a buyer and the Inventory Operations Manager.

On April 12, 2009 we welcome our first child, Oliver Mott, into our family and on February 12, 2013, his little brother, Henry Charles, joined us three weeks before his expected due date.

Tuesday, February 19, 2013

Tuesdays With Henry - Week One (Homecoming Edition)

You may remember the insane project I took on during Oliver's first year of life - Sundays With Oliver. I took a picture of him with the same stuffed dog on every Sunday of his first year (he was born on a Sunday). As soon as I got pregnant people started asking me if I would be doing this again with the next one. Although keeping up with the project with Oliver proved to be rather difficult as he got older (and more mobile), I love looking at the results and am determined that Henry will have the same documentation of his first year. I decided to use the same stuffed dog so that we could go back and compare Henry's pictures to Oliver's.

So, here it is, the first edition of Tuesdays With Henry. The first week of Henry's life was one of the most difficult weeks of my life. For a time there we didn't think we would have him home with us in time for his one week birthday. But he made great (and fast) improvements in the NICU and after a successful night of rooming in, we got to bring him home with us today. We are so grateful to have our whole family under the same roof. It feels amazing.




Here are the pictures for the first week:



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