They say a picture is worth a thousand words and this one is no exception. It is amazing that each week as I look through pictures for Flashback Friday, I am flooded with the memories they all bring.
This picture was taken when Joshua was less than a week old. I remember this day with vivid detail, this shirt in particular. We headed up to Maine the day after I got home from the hospital. We had it planned already, who knew Joshua would be two weeks late??? This boy was a crier! Right away from birth. I can remember the first night in the hospital he was good and quiet until it was time for us to sleep and then he started this blood curdling scream. We would settle him and lay back down to catch some zzzz and he would start again. Because I had been up for 48 hours before having him, I need sleep and we had to have him sleep in the nursery. It was so sad...but on to this day.
It was no exception, from the picture you can see he was crying in full force. Auntie Chris had come with us and we brought Timothy for Jeffrey. I'm pretty certain Uncle Ed was there with Baileigh on this day too. Oh and Grandpa was there as well. The boys were in the canoe, dinner was cooking and Joshua was hungry. Well he was always hungry...he was 10lbs 4 oz and I was too worried about him getting fat to feed him too much...poor baby. Auntie had this great idea to race the boys in the canoe across the pond. In her valiant effort, she tipped herself in the canoe. The only one who could go save her and return the capsized canoe to its shape was Jim...who needed to hold the screaming baby....so I could pump!!! Now you know what happens to new mothers when their baby is screaming and they need to pump....they leak. And I leaked and leaked until my shirt was literally soaked from top to bottom. Every time I look at this picture I remember every last detail and laugh. I was quite a sight by the time the whole scene was complete.
