Well, since Little Brother Andrew is officially home now, and he needs a place to tell the world about himself, I’ve decided to share my blog with him. My editor thought this would be the best thing for the whole family. So, everyone, please give Andrew a warm welcome!

You’ll see posts from me (ben) and Andrew here from now on. Isn’t my little brother cute?

Since Andrew will be coming home soon, M&D moved me into my new room.

Daddy painted a nice mural for me to help get the room ready. I asked for the FedEx truck and the garbage truck, and Wow! Good job, Daddy!

I put up some stickers to decorate the other walls.

So far, I’m really liking my new room!

Before Andrew was born, we met Meridith and Cole for brunch. They have a fish pond at the restaurant.

We smiled just long enough for a picture before going back to looking at the fish!

It has been really cold here the last few days. Daddy pointed out one morning that our fountain had frozen over! We decided to have some fun and find out if it was solid to the bottom, or just some ice on top. Break out the ice picks!

Turns out the ice didn’t go all the way to the bottom, so I could pull out the pieces. Cool! I mean, Cold!

(Ed. Note, ice was about 1/4″ thick)

Before Andrew was born, Mommy and I made cake pops for the baby shower. Of course, the shower got canceled because Andrew got born too soon.

Hmmm… Since there was no shower, I wonder where all those cake pops went. Mommy? Daddy?

Daddy, Ma, and I went to the hospital today, and Andrew is well enough that he could come over by the window where I could really see him.

He’s really cute! I can’t wait to bring him home!

Here I am at the hospital looking in on my new brother, Andrew. I can’t go in to see him since I have a cold. I hope he’ll be out soon!

Baby brother is here! Boy is he cute!

And small.

I visited Mommy and baby brother in the hospital. I was very excited to see them!

I’m looking forward to when baby brother comes home. And gets a name. Maybe M&D will do that soon!

(Ed. Note: Baby brother was born 1/12/13 at 10:17am, 6lbs, 6oz. 19 1/4 inches.)

(Update: M&D have named my new brother: Andrew Wilson Stark. Yay!)

The other day we went for a family walk.  It was kind of raining, so we wore our raincoats.  The good thing about rain is when you have some sun too, because you can get a rainbow!

This rainbow was actually a double one, but it’s hard to see in the picture.

We also explored the park, which had lots and lots of water that was really deep.  I thought maybe we could go swimming, but Daddy wouldn’t let me go in!  I wonder why?

After the park, we also explored ‘Skyhawk Lake’.  The ground was really skooshy.

We went to take a tour of the Jelly Belly factory, which was a long car drive from our house.  It was still decorated for Christmas.  Can you believe how big that tree is?

Inside, there’s a giant flying Jelly Belly guy. And lots of candy.

We met Shannon and her family there for the tour.

They make pictures out of all the different colored Jelly Bellies.  This one is the Statue of Liberty.

Daddy said we weren’t allowed to take pictures of the machines and people during the tour.  But it was really fun to see.  There were millions of Jelly Bellies, and they were all different colors.  There were lots of conveyor belts and robots moving boxes of candy around.  At one point, there was a robot that waved to us!