sibling love begins

Up until yesterday, Micah has been making sure to give wide berth when nearing Lydia. During one of our meals yesterday, Lydia started making those cute, yet weird sounding infant noises. Micah immediately perked up, pointed to Lydia, and started making his elephant noises. He thinks Lydia's sounds are pretty entertaining and today whenever she started 'talking', he started elephant snorting.

Each night we all hold hands and pray with Micah in his bed before he goes to sleep. Tonight was the first night I felt up to reading him stories first and was delighted that we both fit comfortably in his story-chair again! When we got ready to pray, he asked for Dad to come too. Rick came in holding Lydia and the four of us 'held hands' and prayed. After Mom & Dad gave Micah kisses goodnight, he pointed to Lydia! Rick helped Lydia give Micah a kiss on each cheek and then we all said good night. So cute.

New Arrival!!

Welcome Lydia Grace!!  Born at 8:20am (1:20am EST) on April 2, 2011.
3.45kg (7 lb 9oz) 50 cm long (19.7in)

Everything went really well....though fast! The girls are home already & resting...the boys are grocery shopping to feed us this week. :) We'll send more details when I have more rest & hands free.

Last family photo?

We got a friend to take this photo before our family changes. I'm beginning to think she might be an April Fool's baby after all. I made some cookies to serve to the neighbors that visit us after her birth. The longer she waits on the inside, the quicker those cookies seem to be disappearing. Hmm. Maybe store-bought cookies will work just as well. :)

this wouldn't happen at home...

So, we finally had our time change to spring hours today....yes, Monday.

You may wonder why our time change occurred on a Monday rather than a Sunday. We did too, until we heard the rationale through the grapevine. Yesterday, Sunday, was the date of the big college entrance exams here. So as not to have thousands of students miss an hour of sleep (or potentially the test?), the government decided to make the time change today.

Who'd have thunk it?

weekend adventures

 In celebration of 39 weeks, we decided to take a loooooooooooong walk to the 'park by the sea'. Uphill, downhill, 2 hours of walking, swinging, and knee bends, and yet still no baby! Can you tell that Micah doesn't believe this method is going to work either?

 Well, I just had to put this one in. Micah becomes more fun with each day we know him. What a sweetie.

st patty's part 2

Green cupcakes. Need I say more?

doctors, big brothers, and one week to go

After my 39 week check-up today, my doctor said, "Turkish delight!" "It is almost ready to come out".

Is he referring to our baby or a Thanksgiving turkey?

Yesterday, Micah pointed to the baby crib and then my belly. Yep, that's where your little sister is going to sleep!  Today, when I got home from the doctor's, he said, "Its inside" to which I responded, "Yes, the baby is still inside."

How do kids know this stuff?