2 Weeks Old

Time is flying by.  I feel like Lorna just joined our family and yet we are closing in on a month.  I figured I would update her pictures ;).  

Here she is sleeping peacefully on the couch - a favorite baby sleeping place in our family.  I love how peaceful she is - 5-14-12

I did a mini photo shoot for the two week mark - 5-15-12


Loves her tongue :)

Big yawn!

cuteness

getting bigger

Besides having to eat all of the time, and waking up plenty to keep eating our little Lorna is a great baby.  Sometimes she thinks she is starving and has to eat every hour - definitely not fun times, but then she sleeps for a bit and gets back to normal schedule.  The kids still love her too :)

One Week Old

Our little Lorna is so cute and tiny!  I decided to try to take some cute pictures before she gets too big :).  My sweet friend Amanda made the headbands so that made it more fun!

Sucking on her hand

So sweet

Little hands

Little feet

Just beautiful!

I'm sure I'll have more pictures soon enough... they grow and change so fast!

Sponge Bath

Time for her first bath.. well, sponge bath anyway!  Lorna was so cute... and unaware of the upcoming fun!

Starting with her head

Getting the body... and Lorna decided that sponge baths are overrated ;)

All cleaned and in her pjs.  Too cute!

Clark needed a turn to hold her.  He loves her so much!

Close up!

Lorna was also positive cooms, which really means that she's going to have higher levels of jaundice. This is before her photo therapy treatment... if you didn't notice, she is pretty orange here ;)

New Arrival!

Our little baby joined our family on May 1st.  I was induced at 39 weeks and we were all very ready for her to come.  My mom came to help out and was there with the kids so we didn't have to worry about them while we went to the hospital.  We arrived just after 5 am for our appointment and started getting hooked up.  My Dr. came and broke my water at about 9:30 (I was dialated to a 4 by then) and the countdown began.  I was really hoping that I would be done an hour later... but that wasn't the case.  My disappointment during the labor was that the epidural worked really great on my legs, but not so much on my contractions.  Oh well... could have been worse. 

Our little Lorna joined our family at 12:07 pm.  She was nice and pink and so beautiful!

Lorna Louise 

Snuggling on Mommy

Weighing in at 7 lb 4 oz and was 19 inches long - so tiny!

Me and my new baby

Super cute Daddy with Lorna

Jeff brought the kids up to the hospital that night.  They were all very excited to meet their little sister!

Mhari

 Clark cuddling Lorna

Grant

Talmage

Playing in the hospital room... ya, 6 kids in a little room has to be a little crazy!

Sandra

We are so happy she's here and part of our family!  We all just love her!

My how fast they grow!

Our little chicks aren't so little anymore!  

I guess it doesn't matter how big they are, Mhari will still haul them around like they are little.  She is funny!  

Grant's chick is sure big!  Oh, and how they love the chicks!

 Talmage and his chick

 I'm not sure why I don't have a picture of Sandra...


While the chicks were outside playing they caught the attention of the neighbor... cat!

Talmage enjoyed taking some pictures of the chicks...

Jeff just made them a new home so I'll do an update with that sometime soon ;)

Water Time!

OK, so I am finally updating...

Towards the end of April the primary held an activity - Primary Fun with Friends Day!  It was a fun time to come and do water activities and bring our friends to enjoy the fun with us.  We got a decent group of kids, but there were several (like Talmage and Grant) that couldn't come due to sports game conflicts.  It was a pretty casual activity and the kids went around to the different stations and enjoyed getting wet.  It would have been helpful if it wasn't so cold that weekend!  It had been in the 90's, but it cooled off into the 70's for this day ;(.  

Here they are playing "duck, duck, Splash!"

Clark really wanted to participate too... he found his own sponge and took some time cleaning the windows on the church building... silly boy!

Setting up to play water balloon volleyball.  The balloons wouldn't pop and the kids were probably a little young for this game... such is life.

Coloring with chalk - fun for all ages :)

Let the water fight begin!

Some kids raided this water cooler full of balloons ;)

Mhari with her balloon.  By the way, my girls insisted on wearing their swimsuits and yes it was cold.  They really didn't seem to mind though.

Sandra

Good action shot!

 How many balloons can one kid carry?

Ready for action

Because he's too cute!

The day ended with lots of watermelon and Popsicles... if they weren't cold enough.  It was a great day!