Laynee's Baby Blessing

Our Laynee Jo on her special day! She was like a little angel in her blessing dress, she was so sweet! Is hard to believe today she is 8 weeks old already, where has the time gone?! She is smiling so much for us & has been our best baby so far. Her blessing dress is actually the same dress that I wore for my blessing & Makenna wore for hers, so it is 31 years old! Todd did a great job giving her a blessing. It was a perfect day! I will have more photos soon! (thanks Rinna!)

Hospital Pictures of Laynee

My cousin Rinna took these fantastic pictures of Laynee at the hospital, I just had to post them, they are so great! This was a few hours after she was born.

Laynee is finally here!!

The long awaited arrival of Laynee Jo is finally over!

She was born on Monday, October 12, 2009 at 6:42 pm,

She weighed 7 lbs 7.5 oz and was 18.75 inches long.

She is perfect in every way! She has really dark hair, which was shocking

to us all,she doesn't look like any of our other babies who had fuzzy reddish

blonde hair. She has a darker complexion than the other kids did, so I keep

looking at her & thinking is this really one of our babies?! So far

she has been fantastic! We got to come home from the hospital on Tuesday

night, we didn't arrive home until 9:30ish and the kids were going crazy because

they hadn't been able to see her yet because the hospital wouldn't let even siblings

in because of RSV & Swine flu. We were so excited to finally have her home. She

has slept super good, only waking up once during the night to eat & we have

only heard her sweet little cry a few times. I am so glad she is finally here & we can

now say our family circle is complete, fifth & final is what Todd tells everyone!

What's Missing?

My bag is packed, dresser is full, diapers are stacked, crib is ready, carseat is awaiting something to sit in it, laundry done for a week, pantry & fridge stocked, house cleaned, arrangements made...hmmm...I am starting to wonder if she is ever going to make her appearance. I have never been more prepared to bring a baby home than this time!

I have to brag a little...I did make her crib bedding & I am very proud of it!

Russ Gets Glasses!

So my sweet little Russ is now my sweet "special" Russ! We found out this week that his vision isn't so good. (Maybe the bruise on the forehead gives it away?!) For the past few months he has been having a hard time with his left eye & has been going cross eyed, not all the time, but more often than you would like to see your kid go cross eyed! We thought at first it was just a phase, however after a few months realized it had to be more than that. After a visit to the pediatrician we were sent to a Pediatric Eye Specialist who informed us that he is very much farsighted. We took him to another place to get his glasses. These are a pair he tried on, not the pair he will be getting, the bridge is way to dorky for my kid, (sorry if anyone out there has these ones!) We are still patiently waiting for the vision center to get in the frames we picked out so we can try them out & get his lenses ordered. Probably will be at least another week I suppose. He did really well trying them on & never yanked them off. It was kinda sad when Todd put the lenses up to his eyes that matched the prescription he needs because he looked right at me & reached out trying to touch me! Almost like hey thats what you look like! Anyway I think he is going to be the cutest little kid around once he gets his new glasses! Will post a new picture when he gets his new cool glasses!

Laynee's Baby Shower

On Oct. 3rd some of my best friends gave me a baby shower, it was so much fun & I am so lucky to have such great caring friends & family! We got so many SUPER cute outfits, I can't wait to dress her up! We also got lots of handmade quilts & blankets that are adorable. It was strange to be opening up things for a baby girl, my brain has just been doing boy for so long & it has been over 10 years ago that I had Makenna. We are so excited for her to get here. Thanks to all my friends and family for all the love & continued support, even if you do think I am crazy for having 5 kids!! I love you all!

All the yummy food, we had chicken salad sandwiches, fruit, veggies, little pink cookies, brownies with strawberry cream cheese filling, cupcakes, and several other yummy things, it was fantastic!

Garret's First T-ball Game

Playing catcher
Hitting the ball, he is a really good batter!

The day before Garret's first practice he told me he was having this weird feeling like he was going to be embarrassed to play tball because he didn't know anyone. I told him the feeling was nervousness & that he had nothing to worry about because his Dad & Papa are his coach so at least he would know them. After his first practice he loved it & had so much fun & now that is how he spends lots of his free time, practicing, throwing the ball in the air & catching it. Yesterday he was out front in the dirt and rolling grounders to himself, he would roll it, then run as fast as he could to catch it before it stopped, it was pretty funny. Of course he had to slide in the dirt & get as dirty as he possibly could while doing it, and Russ was right behind him chasing & falling as soon as Garret would. Boys will be boys!