Lucas Camilo

This weekend marked another big step for the Hanson/Stansbury family.  Burke went to New York for a board meeting while Krista and Lucas stayed home in Washington DC.  It was the first time since Lucas was born that the three of us had spent so much time — nearly 2 full days — apart.

Lucas missed his daddy lots, but there were a few things that helped make the time pass more quickly while he was gone.  His Tia Alice timed her trip to DC to be here this weekend, so Lucas got to hang out with her most all of Saturday and Sunday.  Although Lucas doesn’t directly benefit from Alice’s cooking, Krista made it through the weekend more fortified than ever, with Alice putting delicious, steaming plates of food in Krista’s hands every few hours.  And Lucas remains a sucker for a good snuggle, so he was also happy to see his old nurses from the Washington Hospital Center, Amy and Erica, arrive on Sunday evening.  They held him and played while Krista got to go out for a couple hours.

Still, it was hard to be apart: hard for Burke to be far away, as he missed seeing Lucas’s beautiful face all throughout the day; and hard for Krista to be the only parent home, responsible for making the many small, often complicated decisions about Lucas’s everyday care.  But it was thanks to all the help and company that we were able to make it through our first dramatic separation.  Now we’re reunited and Lucas seems energized, taking some time off the vent, throwing his arms around the crib with abandon, and making funny faces as we pick him up and move about the room…

(Note: You’ll notice Lucas is wearing a new outfit that he received from his Tia Ashley not long ago.  We’ve heard from a few people that Lucas is a “fashionable baby” and needless to say, we’re a bit upset about it.  In fact, his dad is downright distraught.  Sure, Lucas has a lot of cute outfits but we never wanted to have a well-dressed baby and, as we mentioned before, all his outfits are hand-me-downs or gifts, and many of those purchased at thrift stores.  But maybe it’s our own fault for making that joke a while back about him winning the NICU fashion show…)