Isn't she beautiful?

My good friend, Andrea, took these pictures last week. Annie was more cooperative than I thought she would be. They turned out so awesome and I am so grateful!

Artwork

Josie brought this picture home from school last week. Can you guess who it is? (it's not me!)



When I asked her who it was, she said, "It's Ariel, Mom! Here are her shells and her fin and she has red hair!"

Josie's Circus Day

Josie had a fun circus day at school to show us some of the things she's been working on. It ended with cotton candy-- it doesn't get better than that!

Wacky Day

Here is Josie for "WACKY DAY" at school. She was so excited! It's good to be wacky for one day ...

What We've Been Doing ...

Things are slowly, but surely, returning to normal. Annie was born on Sept. 17th. She really didn't want to come, I was dilated to a 4 and just kept going! I was so worried that once I went in to labor she would come really fast and told my Doctor that I was going to have to pack some snacks and pitch a tent in the hospital parking lot so that I didn't deliver at home or in the car! At my appointment he told me to come in that night while he was on call so that the baby would be born in the hospital. He broke my water at 1:15 a.m., I had my epidural by 1:30 a.m., and she was born at 2:58 a.m. So it's a good thing for a great doctor that didn't make me wait to go into labor myself! Everything went really well and we are really glad to have her here, but she has turned our lives upside down trying to show us who is boss ... and it isn't us! I was so spoiled by Josie that I didn't even consider what it would be like to have a baby that actually cried and didn't sleep all night!! We've definately struggled, but I think we're getting things figured out. I've had the nicest friends ever that have brought in dinners, taken the kids so I could rest, and have brought in yummy treats-- we've been very taken care of, and I am so grateful for that. It's hard to believe that it has been almost 5 weeks, she's growing like crazy. I've been terrible at taking pictures, but here are a few: