Blessing Day

Grandparents Visit

Grandma Dooley came to for an extended visit in which we kept her real busy since Shane also timed out breaking his collar bone the day after I got out of the hospital. She has taken him to school a couple days. I told him to get a picture riding to school with his mom and to not forget his book bag, but I am not sure he thought it was quite as funny as I did. So sorry everyone for missing that photo opportunity, but I still have a picture of the bruise before he went in for surgery.

Battle Wound From Ultimate Frisbee

Everyone who is wondering... Shane did catch the frisbee and his team won. Personally, I think they should have signed it and given it to him.

Shane's father also had shoulder surgery recently, and when he explained to Daphney that she should be careful with his shoulder. She responded, "Oh, did you play frisbee too?"

With all of us crippled people Shane's mother still found time to help the kids learn to make cinnamon rolls. It was really humorous to watch!

Demitri wasn't such a fan of the sticky texture...

 But Daphney and Grandma worked real hard, and I bet you can't tell which half is Daphney's rolls!

Grandpa and Paisley

The Epic Briar Patch

[no words....]

Three weeks!

Proud Builder

Sibling Fun

In preparation for Paisley's birth the two kiddos worked hard using crayons, markers, and stickers to create pictures to give her for her birthday. It kept them busy for a long time. :)

Demitri finally got his alone time to hold Paisley where he didn't have to take turns!

Daphney is a very proud big sister who loves caring for her little sister.

The kids had their first movie party together, and watched Tangled! Lets get real- Paisley only lasted 5 minutes. :)

The things these kids come up with!

 

Paisley's Birth Story

Good News: Paisley was born without any ambulance trips with two toddlers, and my husband was there!

The day Paisley was born was three days before her due date. Shane was at school an hour north and I sat around trying not to move too much so as to not dislodge her. As the time for Shane to return home approached I began gaining confidence that he would not miss it and preceded to clean the house and take the kids to the park with a playgroup. All this time I had consistent contractions similar to those I had been feeling all month. Shane had called and said that he was going to stay for an important conference; however he had told me to keep him up to date because he would a million times prefer a false alarm than to miss the baby's birth so I called him around three and told him I had three contractions that were roughly 9 minutes apart and he told me to go to the hospital and decided to head for home. I disagreed and argued that the contractions had been 4 minutes apart several times this pregnancy and we had plenty of time and who knows if this is even real labor... (You feel pretty stupid when you don't even know if you are in labor or not.)

Anyways I have amazing friends that showed up shortly to take my kids away and drive me to the hospital. I was only there for a long 20 minutes when Shane showed up, and things really got moving after that. My water ruptured by itself and my doctor luckily opted to not stop for a sandwich and soda on his way in (I am not quite sure why he choose to share that decision with me at this stressful time..). My epidural only worked on my right side of my body so I kept pushing the "magic" more drugs button, but alas sadly the right side was very numb and the left didn't really seem to change much. However, this was kind of the best of both worlds because I was able to feel the pain and that gave me plenty of motivation while still dulling the pain on the right.

She weighed 7 lbs and was 19 inches long. She was a beautiful dark haired baby that was healthy and able to stay in my room from birth! The hospital was having a baby boom that day and had a record number of people deliver, so that some families were expanded into another floor of the hospital. Shane also had two cousins (one on each side) that had babies on that day. And, Paisley marks the 50 great-grandchild for his maternal grandparents by like an hour... This was our first non-jaundice baby and that was wonderful. The only thing we had to do was get her tongue untied. While there they made me fill out past history paperwork that didn't really make since for new-borns like how much did she weigh last year, and does she wake up frequently.

We love having her apart of our family, and I am in total amazement of the ability to create life. What a blessing!

September

Mom out of Commission: Don't worry I can still use my camera!

The ability for a family to reach its highest efficiency does not mean all persons pull the same weight, but that every person is willing to pull it all, because at times it will be required.

Grandad brought over some garden grapes for these grape lovers, and Daphney learned how to do the whole process of juicing and by the time they were done she was running the show. (Only a few grapes were eaten in the process...)

Daph loves to be a part of anything we are doing, and one day when I was practicing the piano I looked behind me to see this girl playing and singing along.

I just love these two who are [most of the time] BFF's.