A wild baby appears! It attempts heart melter… it’s super effective! Yes, my friends, Baby Kwan #2 has arrived. May I introduce you to Maxwell Kwan, or simply “Baby Max” for short. After hanging around inside the Poke Ball for a bit too long, he decided to make his grand entrance a few days ago. And yes, he’s been busy melting hearts ever since. Both baby and Mommy are doing great. We are now officially a family of four.

Here’s the little intro I wrote over on Instagram. Click the little arrows (or visit the Instagram post directly) for more baby pictures.

A wild baby appears! And we didn’t even need to go all the way to Viridian City to catch him! Hello world. Here is Maxwell Kwan, born September 24. Both mommy and baby are doing great.

I’ll spare you the details (at least for now), but the TL;DR version is that this little one was spending a little too much time inside his Poke Ball. We had an appointment to get checked out and discuss induction, but labour started progressing on its own early that morning already. And everything moved along more quickly than the first time around.

Long story short, a little over six hours later, baby Max entered the world and he’s been leveling up ever since. He’s definitely an active one and he’s got some really strong limbs. I’ve been particularly impressed with his neck strength at just a few days old.

Addie is super excited to be a big sister and has been enthusiastically asking questions and seeing how she can help. She knows to be quiet and gentle, and has been as understanding as can be reasonably expected that her parents need to spend more time with the baby right now.

This pregnancy and newborn experience have been different for many reasons. I wasn’t able to attend the ultrasound and midwife appointments, and I was masked up for labour and delivery. We weren’t allowed to have visitors in the hospital either. But, we’re all home and happy and healthy… and sleep-deprived, of course.

Welcome home, Max. Now, we can all continue on our journey, down our road, together, as one big happy family.