One Week Old

Can you believe it, our little Squeak is already one week old. She has had a few monumental achievements in this short time. Her first bath, first night being awake, her first outing to the Lake and her first hike up the canyon. I think we all enjoyed these monumental events except for the first night awake.

We are all doing really well and adjusting pretty good. Petunia had a rough week as she was sick for 3 days - what bad timing - get sick right when we bring home a new baby. Petunia was very sad because she couldn't hold Squeak.

Mr. Smiley has been able to be home a lot this week which has been great! We will all be sad when he goes back to work on Monday. Mr. Smiley and Farmer have been working really hard in the yard. Farmer is a really good helper.

Peanut and Petunia finished swimming lessons last Thursday and both really enjoyed it. They are becoming pretty good little swimmers. I can't believe that we made it through swimming lessons before Squeak was born. Really perfect timing. Speaking of swimming, the pool is still not open but Mr. Smiley will be filling it on Tuesday this coming week, so it should be ready for the July Grand Opening.

We just wanted to tell everyone that we have enjoyed your visits and all of your calls. Thank you for sharing this wonderful time in our lives with us.

Introducing Baby J

On Saturday June 14th, Flag Day, our baby arrived to join our family. We are so excited to have her with us. What a miracle we have been given. Her name means "God is Gracious" and we believe this to be true for our little girl as Heavenly Father has blessed us with this perfect little angel.She was 7lbs. 2 oz. minutes after birth - I say that because she peed all over the doctor twice, and then again on the nurse before she was weighed so I think she weighed a couple ounces more. She is 19 inches long and has very long fingers and toes, just like mom. She has a round face with cute chubby cheeks and a double chin. Squeak looks a lot like Petunia did at birth but she also has her own look. The kids are very excited and were really cute with her at the hospital and at home. As soon as we got home Farmer ran to his room and gave her one of his best toys to play with.

Popping Balloons

Today was one of those days when an innocent 2 year old wrecks havoc on the house. Farmer found a pushpin and popped a balloon - what fun he thinks, I need more to pop. He couldn't find anymore balloons so he found anything with air in it. Yes, he ended up popping several balls and the girls bouncy horse. (They are not happy with the young boy.)
When I finally figured out what he was doing it was too late to save my fitness ball. He said, "Mommy this one won't pop!" I went running and found the pushpin sticking right into the fitness ball. I was hopeful that he had only tried to "pop" it once but when the patch was in place it was very apparent that he had tried to "pop" it several times. I think I have found at least 7 holes in the ball.
Needless to say, I am not very happy about what happened today. I am not sure I am up to fixing that many holes but it is a very nice and expensive fitness ball. I use it all of the time. I am just afraid if I spend the time to fix it, he will just try to pop it again. Maybe I will just wait until it no longer fascinates him. Of course he didn't know he was doing anything wrong so he only had to spend a few minutes in his room. Next time though he may be there quite a while. He is lucky that he is so cute and mom can't stay mad at him for too long.