Hol and I (and BBG!) have been very fortunate that we’ve been able to spend just about all day, every day, together for the past three months. But, like all good things, our Summer of Joy has come to an end. Hol has returned to work this morning and I have become a SAHD for real.

I do, however, get to ease in to my new role — on Wednesday Frankie returns (this time with Grandpa Andy!), then the day Frankie and G’pa Andy leave cousins Isa and Joaquin show up with Uncle Diego and Aunt Annie to visit us and Annie’s family here in the STL, and about a week after that Aunt Kelly (aka Joshua’s Mama) shows up to stay with us for a couple of days. So, I’ll be a stay-at-home-but-not-alone-dad for a couple of weeks.

Meanwhile, Sabine, though she will certainly miss having Mom at her beck-and-call, will continue to keep busy refining her whole “Cute? Who? Me?” act throughout all this.