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This is the second week (of 3) of this series, so if you missed the previous week, and want to catch up, you can see them here:

I think that the drawing of Kyle waking up in the second panel is pretty funny. It was fun to draw anyway. I don't normally show Kyle in his crib, and I don't know why that is. I think the crib helps ground him as a baby a little better.

Waking up for the new baby has been fun. He's a pretty good sleeper, but there are moments when he doesn't want to rest, and it's always funny to me how bitter he acts when you wake him up. We've got a little hypocrite in our midst :)

This cartoon is something I used to do as a kid. My mom would always ban me from waking her up when she was taking a nap, and I'd walk noisily down the hall half-hoping she'd wake up and I could ask her my question. The third panel took several tries. It's more complicated than I expected to draw a character so he looks like he's listening and not just standing there.

As the characters go on, in some ways it gets harder to write, but in many ways it gets much easier, because the characters have a way that they behave. As I was writing these, I just kept reminding myself: What would Casey do next, and then what would Kyle do? Casey always seems to forget that Kyle doesn't really know what's going on. He's a baby. So he puts his hope in an infant who just wants to go back to bed. Also, heaven forbid, Casey just gets himself a drink...

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This is the first part of a three week series with a very thirsty Casey and his quest for a glass of water. It's funny to me how the dark strips take about three times as much time, because you have to carefully draw around Casey's hair so that he doesn't look bald... It's a challenge, but I love how they look when they're done. This first cartoon is inspired by a conversation that I had with my oldest last week. It would work with my second also. We could walk out of an Olive Garden and if we stop ten minutes later to get a drink at a Burger King or a McDonalds, he'll be hungry... :)

Life with baby #3 is starting to find a rhythm. It's amazing how disruptive a new baby is to the regular way of doing things. We'd forgotten all about that part of things and for the first few days it really felt like we were losing our days, getting behind on things and losing the inertia of our family, in the way we function and the things that we spend our times doing. Our family Bible reading was suffering, because we just felt worn out and we were getting behind on several other things that we do as a family that are important to us and make up part of our family identity.

About the seventh day, we realized this was happening and began to take steps to fight it, and we've managed to begin to get a new family rhythm that still accomodates the demands of baby, but also puts our family priorities in their place as well. If your priorities are in place, and being acted on, it's amazing how much more peace and tranquility your lives have. As we're starting to get our footing again, everyone's much happier, and as a bonus, we're starting to get a little more sleep :)

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