Welcome to the world baby Benjamin Isaac Leigh Buffum! The girls are VERY excited that they have a new cousin! We all can’t wait to meet you, Ben!

(Yes, I know I look like a giant in this picture, and Yoya is actually 3 months more pregnant than I am – it’s the CAMERA ANGLE). We are wishing Yoya and Dylan luck and health this week as we expect arrival of Baby BuffuLipps!

We are super thankful to live in a neighborhood that backs onto a creek and miles of hiking trails – it makes escaping the dreariness of Zoom meetings much easier and makes it feel that everything we need is truly right here. We are still only going out to the grocery store, and the kids are amazingly resilient at changing their entire lives without complaining (me, less so). And Maggie LOVES having her sisters home for quarantine – last time she spent a year in isolation with a rotating team of single adults and this time around she is healthy and has two playmates for a “quaranteam”- so life is good.