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Sunday, June 9, 2013
Monday, May 20, 2013
Travels
We are a pretty nomadic family these days. I love all the adventures! Here are some pictures from our roamings this spring.
Grandma and Lucy bonding:
Mother's Day:
My cabbage patch baby doll from my childhood and my REAL cabbage patch baby!
Beautiful Cannon Beach wit Haystack rock in the background:
More beach:
Tillamook Cheese Factory. It was fun to see the big cheese assembly line and to sample the cheese curds that squeak on your teeth!
Sweet sisters. I love these little girls!
Grandpa holding Lucy for the first time:
Friday, April 5, 2013
Hodge Podge of Life
Life is busy with 3 littles girls. It's starting to sink into a rhythm though. Lucy is sleeping in a pretty consistent pattern at night. I'm usually only up twice with her! She's starting to smile and coo a lot more, to the delight of everyone, especially her big sisters! Baby girl will be 2 months old on Sunday!! How does time go by so fast when you have a newborn?? Can I still call her a newborn?
In addition to all the new routine changes, I added potty training Libby to the mix. Am I nuts? Glutton for punishment? Ha. Maybe. But so far so good. She seems to be getting the hang of it. This is perhaps due to the fact that she is extremely motivated by jelly beans. I guess that's one of the bonuses of not giving your kids candy normally. It's such a novelty for her now! She can squeeze out a few drops every half hour if need be to get that "Delly bean!" Hopefully that will translate soon into a general desire to take care of all that business the way us other "potty trained" folks do. I remind myself that I did successfully potty train one girl already, so it can be done!
Anyway, here are some pics of the general events over the last month or so.
In addition to all the new routine changes, I added potty training Libby to the mix. Am I nuts? Glutton for punishment? Ha. Maybe. But so far so good. She seems to be getting the hang of it. This is perhaps due to the fact that she is extremely motivated by jelly beans. I guess that's one of the bonuses of not giving your kids candy normally. It's such a novelty for her now! She can squeeze out a few drops every half hour if need be to get that "Delly bean!" Hopefully that will translate soon into a general desire to take care of all that business the way us other "potty trained" folks do. I remind myself that I did successfully potty train one girl already, so it can be done!
Anyway, here are some pics of the general events over the last month or so.
Monday, March 4, 2013
3 weeks of faces
Lucy is 3 weeks old! ...and one day. That one day is important! Each day she grows! I take pictures every day. But it's so hard to capture the growth. I wish I could just stop time every now and then...pause her as she is. Take in every feature without worrying that it might be changing even as I watch!
Anyway, here are the latest glimpses at Lucy as she grows.
As many moms know, taking pictures of a newborn is ridiculously hard. They are squirmy. They don't like to be unwrapped. For every good picture, you get at least a half a dozen silly ones. But those are fun too! See!?
Anyway, here are the latest glimpses at Lucy as she grows.
As many moms know, taking pictures of a newborn is ridiculously hard. They are squirmy. They don't like to be unwrapped. For every good picture, you get at least a half a dozen silly ones. But those are fun too! See!?
Sunday, February 24, 2013
Tuesday, February 19, 2013
Miss Lucy
She joined us on February 10th, 5 days before we expected her.
Early in the morning, I awoke. It wasn't long before I knew she was coming. There was a flurry of activity around me as I settled down to concentrate on the work to be done. Midwives arriving. Little girls shuttled off to friends. Supplies gathered. It wasn't long after that that we knew she would be coming rather quickly. Roughly an hour and a half after the midwife arrived, Lucy Irene joined us.
We were overjoyed that it had been quick. I was so thankful to be holding her, nursing her, looking over her every feature. I was mildly surprised to be holding another girl. I figured we were due for a boy, but oh, how I love girls!
Due to too much blood loss, I had to make an urgent trip to the hospital an hour after Lucy's birth. It was not how I expected to spend the first 24 hours with my girl, but I am truly thankful for all that modern medicine offers. They had me fixed up in a day's time and back home with my family. I am so thankful to be living where we are, with with our friends SO close by. :) Everything after the transfer to the hospital went so smoothly. I am so thankful that the Lord allowed the day to go that way.
With no further ado, here are some pictures of our new little love.
Early in the morning, I awoke. It wasn't long before I knew she was coming. There was a flurry of activity around me as I settled down to concentrate on the work to be done. Midwives arriving. Little girls shuttled off to friends. Supplies gathered. It wasn't long after that that we knew she would be coming rather quickly. Roughly an hour and a half after the midwife arrived, Lucy Irene joined us.
We were overjoyed that it had been quick. I was so thankful to be holding her, nursing her, looking over her every feature. I was mildly surprised to be holding another girl. I figured we were due for a boy, but oh, how I love girls!
Due to too much blood loss, I had to make an urgent trip to the hospital an hour after Lucy's birth. It was not how I expected to spend the first 24 hours with my girl, but I am truly thankful for all that modern medicine offers. They had me fixed up in a day's time and back home with my family. I am so thankful to be living where we are, with with our friends SO close by. :) Everything after the transfer to the hospital went so smoothly. I am so thankful that the Lord allowed the day to go that way.
With no further ado, here are some pictures of our new little love.
Thursday, January 3, 2013
Some pictures for fun
Posting hasn't been much of a priority lately. I suppose traveling and baby growing have been keeping me busy! But here are some pictures from our Christmas travels.
We have really enjoyed the opportunity to see so many wonderful friends and family this season. It was a lovely Christmas. I think the highlights included Evie asking to make Jesus a birthday cake and Libby asking for a piece of "God's cake!" It was pretty sweet to hear them belting out "oh, Beautiful Star of Bethlehem" (their favorite Christmas song) on Christmas Eve too. There is a fresh new Joy to the season, seeing it through my daughters' eyes.
We have really enjoyed the opportunity to see so many wonderful friends and family this season. It was a lovely Christmas. I think the highlights included Evie asking to make Jesus a birthday cake and Libby asking for a piece of "God's cake!" It was pretty sweet to hear them belting out "oh, Beautiful Star of Bethlehem" (their favorite Christmas song) on Christmas Eve too. There is a fresh new Joy to the season, seeing it through my daughters' eyes.
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