Blessing Day

This was on Easter. It was a great day for everyone. Thanks, belatedly, to all who came!

Crazy Hair Day

Sydney wanted me to put her crazy hair day pictures up on the blog. She is so funny, she plans out for days, weeks, and even months activities. She is so sad school is over to have fun days like this, I guess I'll just need to be more creative now!

One month old

I can't believe Kaitlyn is already a month. Time flies so fast. She is so great. Last night she only woke up twice, so I feel a little better today too! It is amazing how quick the idea of family changes. Kaitlyn was sleeping the other evening, and the John, Sydney, Dave, and I were watching a movie. Dave was cuddling with me, and Sydney with John. As I looked I realized that even though it was great to be the four of us, it felt incomplete. We spent many many night just like that before Kaitlyn was born, but now it wasn't our family. I don't know exactly how to describe it, but I was amazed at how quickly she has made her way into my heart. I wasn't sure I could handle three kids, I struggled with two sometimes, but I am so glad we have Kaitlyn. I love how she snorts constantly, I love how she smells after a bath, I love to cuddle her, I love that she loves to hold my hair, and I love her hands. I don't know why I am fascinated with her hands, but I love to just look at them and how little they are. Dave and Sydney do wonderful with Kaitlyn, and it is fun to watch them. The other night, I was in the middle of cooking dinner when Kaitlyn woke up. She was crying for a minute before I could go get her. Finally, Sydney, exasperated, said "Well, I guess if no one else cares about Kaitlyn I will have to go take care of her." I, as always, fall more in love with John with every child, I love to watch him be a dad, he is amazing.

As a side note: my internet is struggling as usual. But I am having serious issues loading blogs, and leaving comments lately. Especially, Brooke, Stacey, Craig and Sarah and Lori. So I love your blogs and sorry I can't comment. High-speed internet is supposed to be here this summer!!

Kaitlyn Marie

She is here! Kaitlyn was born Sunday February 8th at 5:36 p.m. She was 7 lbs 10 oz and 19 inches. I am so glad she was 2 weeks early, because I didn't need a bigger baby! She is beautiful (not that I'm biased). She has an old man hairline with a little bit of hair on top, and lots on the sides and back. Sydney is so glad she is here, and is a big help, and a big kisser. David wouldn't admit she was his sister the first day, but has asked to hold her a few times, and kisses her, so I think he may accept her. I am feeling well, and must admit that I forgot how fun it is to hold a newborn. Sydney tells me I'm a baby hog. I love to hold her.

I love that it was a mild November!

I'm convinced that jumping in the leaves is one of the greatest childhood joys there are. We have a lot of trees at our house, but because John is super busy and I am lazy and still not feeling very well, we didn't rake those, just mowed them up! Our church though, is wonderful, lots of big trees and someone else had put them in a pile for us. So Sydney asked one day if we could go up there and jump in the leaves. This tree was the best because they could jump out of the tree and land in the leaves. Dave was a little nervous, and John helped him a little, but Sydney is fearless!

Burying Dad was a highlight for them as well!

By the way, I know you guys don't care, but I do: They started putting in the lines for high-speed internet here! Yeah! Hopefully soon, it won't take me an hour to do a post, and when I try to make comments on your blog, it will work!

Halloween!

I have to say that John's outfit is my favorite for Halloween, but the kids were cute too. These pictures were from a party a week earlier. I don't know what happened on Halloween, but we said let's go take pictures, and the next thing I knew we were home from trick-or-treating and the kids were out of their costumes and I didn't have any pictures. Oops! On Halloween, Sydney wore my veil, and looked beautiful. David was a cowboy sometimes, and other times trading his cowboy hat for a hard hat and being Bob the builder. It worked.

For dinner we had Goblin tongues (bagels with bologna), eyeballs (carrots with olives) and monster mouths (apples with candy corn teeth). It was fun. Sydney had a great time making dinner.

Annoucement!

Sydney jumped up and down, and David cried and said, "Me want a boy, me want a boy." Well, I guess you just can't please them all!