Meet Kole
Time to get started! Everything went really well. I’m a big fan of being induced and an even bigger fan of epidurals. I checked in at 7:00 am and had the baby at 2:44 pm. He was 7 pounds 14 ounces and 19 1/2 inches long. Oh…and he is perfect. Absolutely perfect.


The girls were so excited to come and meet their little brother. When my mom told them to get ready to go to the hospital they were in the car 45 minutes before it was time to go.
I really can’t believe this picture. It seems like last week Kenny and I were in highschool making out and riding around on his bullet bike driving my parents crazy. Now here we are three kids later. A family of five.
Grandma and Grandpa were pretty excited to meet their first grandson.
And now Kenny’s pretty glad I convinced him we needed ONE more baby.

Getting ready to leave the hospital.


Everybody is doing great. We feel so blessed to have this sweet little boy home with us. He is such a doll and we are all completely smitten with him.
Thank you so much for all of your love and support!
Getting Ready for Baby
One more quick post before I head to the hospital! This has been such a fun weekend and I am so excited for tomorrow! Here are some pics from the last week. I finally finished my “to organize before baby” list. My mom just asked why I’m posting pictures of my organized drawers right now. Well I’ll tell you. They make me happy. Organizing them made me happy and seeing the finished product makes me happy. And I LOVE to see pictures of the way people organize on their blogs. My mom thinks I’m weird. Am I weird? Does anyone else get just giddy over this stuff? Well, regardless, here are some pics for the maybe two readers like me who like to see a little organization. :)

Spice cupboard (see Shari…I do have one. I have a feeling this cupboard will stay organized for a very long time…)














Kole’s Nursery
Finally finished Kole’s nursery. I had my last doctor appointment today and will be checking into the hospital next Tuesday, March 30th. Cuttin‘ things a little close. :) Here’s the before:


A bit of mom randomness
We moved Addison from her toddler car seat into a booster seat this weekend. I don’t know why that was the change that did it, but all I’ve been thinking about since then is how big she is all of a sudden.
Easter Fun
Last Saturday morning the girls were playing so nicely together upstairs that I didn’t want to call them downstairs to the table for breakfast. I just didn’t want to interrupt the flow. Nothing like a calm, drama free morning. Plus I was too lazy to make much for breakfast.
So instead, I pulled out this Easter tin I bought for sugar cookies…
and filled it with “breakfast.” My girls love to have blanket picnics so they were delighted to be eating breakfast upstairs for a change. Saturday’s should be less structured, right?




Mermaids and More



Project Life – Addison’s Book
Just wanted to share the beginning of Addison’s book. I decided to start her book in May of 2009 because I wanted to include her third birthday party. We celebrated it during our family trip to Cancun which made it an extra fun celebration. :) I wanted to include some 5×7’s so I decided to do a few traditional layouts to include in her Project Life book.












**Update – You can see how I document “school days” here.
March 11th
Last Thursday, March 11th, I turned 33 years old.
I woke up on my birthday morning to the smell of waffles. Kenny and Ellie woke up extra early to make them for me.
I also woke up to a Nordstrom’s gift card, a coupon for a new paper cutter (I ran mine into the ground with my 2009 Christmas cards), and of course…Cadbury Eggs. Waffles, Nordstroms, scrapbook supplies and Cadbury Eggs – what a delightful combination! Kenny knows me well. :)






That evening I got ready to go to dinner with my friends. Choosing what to wear was easy since I’m down to three shirts that fit. I thought about wearing my favorite 2 hour shoes that I got last year for my birthday…



They got me gifts. They put together a “Survival Kit” to aid me through what we call “the year of the baby.” A bag full of all kinds of fun things from pajamas to face masks to candles to my favorite candy to a “Team Edward – stand by your Vampire” t-shirt. Because who can survive a baby without a “Team Edward – stand by your Vampire” t-shirt? I know I can’t. It was a perfect gift and a perfect evening. Love my friends.
Expectations
I was talking with a friend today about how I was feeling frustrated lately because this pregnancy has been really slowing me down. I just can’t get done in a day what I’m used to doing. We were talking about how it really all has to do with expectations – especially the expectations we set for ourselves and how there are times that these expectations just have to be lowered.
Tuesday Randomness
Speaking of my Addison…you may remember from this post that she is NOT a morning person.
It always takes her awhile to wake up and get going.
But once she’s had some time to adjust and a little breakfast…


35 weeks and a baby shower
35 weeks along. Not much to update. I’m not sleeping well. I go to the bathroom about every 25 minutes. Everything is puffy and swollen. It was a cold rainy day and I turned off the heat and have had the fan on high. Kenny and the girls were watching the science channel in sweatshirts huddled together under our big Charger blanket. I’m uncomfortable. And big. And hoping to pop soon. And still wondering what was up with the science channel.
My darling friends threw me a baby shower last week.






