Emily is Born

I've been having regular contractions for hours. I must be in labor. Oops, they stopped. I'm scheduled to be induced, I finally get to have the baby today. Oops, the hospital is overbooked. Maybe after the weekend... nope, they're still overbooked. Tomorrow???? Yes! They finally have room for me. Hoorah!!!! No more waddling everywhere, no more getting up every two hours to pee during the night, no more foot shoved into my ribs, no more emotional rollercoaster. I'm doing it natural this time. Bring it on!

Here's my husband. Is he mooning over me, rubbing my back and encouraging me? Nope, he's fiddling with his video camera... again. But now, after the fact, I can say the video he made from all of his footage was certainly worth it. Actually he was much better in the support department this fourth time around. He certainly kept me, my Mom, and all of the nurses laughing. Here I am, roughly 20 minutes before delivering. He's making me smile once again.

I loved the water birth. Emily was born June 3rd at 11:03pm.

Oh, my beautiful new baby! Well, I'm sure she will be once she gets all wiped off.

And she is.

Wow. Look at all that hair.

Her sisters enjoyed holding her the next day. David just looked confused.

We're ready to go home.

The Dairy Farm

We took the kids to a nearby dairy farm. At first they were a little scared, but they soon warmed up to the cows and loved petting them.



Check out the size difference.


My favorite part was sitting outside on the bench with my Mom and eating freshly made ice cream. Yummy!

Our Family

So this is our family as of April. This picture was taken after Church one day. Jonathan often has this fettish of taking pictures on Sundays. Perhaps because I complain on other days that I look like a mess. This was the only picture that David didn't have his hand in his mouth. Ah yes, at some point I will have to devote a blog to all of the things he puts in his mouth... and nose. Notice the gray in Jonathan's hair. Each Actuarial Exam he took (thankfully he finished them last year) and every kid we have seems to increase the amount of gray. Notice my bulging tummy. Yep. Number 4 was on the way.

The Beginning...

Okay, here goes. My first attempt at Blogging. I haven't written in my journal in years. You know how it is. Overwhelming. I start to write and there are so many things I want to write about that I spend two hours and meanwhile the house is falling apart as the kids get into everything they know they aren't supposed to touch because Mom has obviously been sucked in. So the next time I think, "should I write in my journal?", of course I associate pain and huge messes to be cleaned up later. And it doesn't happen. Perhaps pictures, and a footer will make for shorter and easier journal entries. Let's hope. Next blog... an intro to our family.