Eidel Jaine

Our sweet Eidel Jaine arrived Monday, May 16 at 4:17 pm. She was a week and a half early and weighed in at 7 lbs 3 oz and was 19 inches long. All four of us are completely smitten with this sweet little girl that has somehow interrupted our nights' sleeps but we don't mind too much! What she lacks in the sleeping department, she makes up for in cuddles and sweetness!


Our first Sunday as a family of five...


Riah loves her baby!




Lias meeting Eidel Jaine for the first time.








Older kids playing meeting at Nana's while waiting for Baby to come.


Lias contemplating why this baby happened to be a girl. He told Nana "I thought this baby was going to be a boy (we didn't find out the gender ahead of time) but no such luck!" But, he's loving his new sister and is SUCH a good big brother!


Lias and his new truck that he got while waiting for Baby to come.










Our girls before Eidel's second Wednesday night meeting


Daddy and Eidel...so precious!

Papa and Grandma also came to the hospital to visit and help me come from the hospital but I didn't get any pictures (most of these pictures are stolen from Nana). Mom, send me the pics you took and I'll upload them!

Friday, January 21

Thursday, January 20 - A Trip to Georgia

Tuesday, January 18 - Our Old Dog

Our 15 year old, beloved "Old Grandpa Dakota" He's an amazing dog who can sneeze on command and is great with the kids. We'll be so sad to have to say goodbye to him soon.

A New Year, A New Start!

When I started this blog, I promised myself it would be a way to document my kids' lives. The plan was to update frequently and have a record of all the fun things we did with the kids. This worked well when I just had Lias. I updated once a week and the plan worked well. However, when Riah June came along, the posts became more infrequent and the task of catching up just seems overwhelming. So, for the New Year, I'm going to start another attempt to document the kids' lives. Only this time, I won't document every little thing. I'll try to post once a week and post what I can. We'll see how well that goes.

2011 promises to be another exciting year for our family, as we welcome Baby #3. We look forward to meeting our sweet, kicking little baby. Many have asked but we will not be finding out the sex of this baby. The great thing about this is for once, I'm completely impartial as to which we have! I'd love a little boy for Lias and I'd also love a little girl for Riah. Either way, our family will welcome another tiny person to join our crazy household.

So, to start off: a quick update on each of the kids: Elias is 3 1/2 now. He talks a mile a minute and comes up with fascinating stories. He takes apart EVERYthing and loves his trains, cars and monster trucks. He's becoming such a little man. I see his Daddy in him more and more each day.

Riah June is 16 months. She's learning all sorts of new words and signs. She can fully communicate with us what she wants now, which helps with the crying. But, she'll always be a bit more dramatic than Lias so we do have quite a bit of crying still. She's a snuggler and so sweet. She got her first black eye last night and it's a real bruiser. I can't wait to see the little girl she's becoming!

Baby #3 is doing well. I'm 19 weeks and s/he kicks up a storm. I've only gained 4-5 pounds which concerns me but the doctor says it should be fine. We'll find out in five weeks at our ultrasound.

We're looking forward to a great year and lots of needed family time!

Hope all of your families are doing great! We'd love to hear from you!