This post is mostly a plethora of pictures of an adorable little baby. Not much to say, I think the pictures speak for themselves. :)
The rock n' play sleeper is the greatest invention ever. Seriously, if you're reading this and you have a baby or are going to have a baby and don't have a rock n' play sleeper do yourself a favor and GET ONE!
The kids love her. Their adjustment has been pretty darn smooth. Declan was quite clingy to me the first week or so but seems to have gotten over that. Tatum loves her so much and wants to help all the time. She really can be a help but sometimes the constant requests to hold the baby can get a bit tiresome. :)
We have had an incredibly mild fall and it has been fabulous. Outside time every day is kind of essential for all of us. The kids got to do the traditional fall activity of playing in the leaves with Brennan. Emry and I came out to watch a couple of times, next year we will be sure to join in the fun.
Brennan used the leaf blower on the kids and the pictures are perfection.
First bath at home.
First day at church, 9 days old.
I love this picture of Brennan and his girls.
Showing us their muscles. haha
Playing a game they made up, Brennan was a good sport.
Baby toes!
Sisters in some Halloween get-up.
So many snuggles! And still not enough. She already seems so much bigger and less snuggly. Sniff.
The milk coma.
Finally a little of bit of binky success. We tried a few brands with no luck. She still doesn't seem to love the binky but she will take this one semi-consistently.
Declan loves to hold her too but his favorite thing to do is rub his chin and cheeks on the top of her head because it's "so soft!".
Three generations.
Some deep sister talk going on here, clearly.
A movie night. Snow White I believe it was.
Emry's billboard. :) The hospital we delivered at does birth announcements on a big billboard for a week after your baby is born. We finally remembered to stop and check it out on the last day.
Not that Declan was ever really seeming small to me, but now he is like a giant!
Haha, love the spread out limbs.
For FHE we told the kids the story of Shadrach, Meshack, and Abednego. Family night doesn't always look like this but sometimes they sure listen intently and it needs to be captured.
Emry went through a real barfy stage. She doesn't seem to do it nearly as much now but there were several times when her whole outfit needed to be changed as well as that of the person holding her.
The kids got to get on the garage roof with Papa. What a thrill!
Grandma came and stayed in the middle of weeks one and two for a couple of days each time. It was a life saver. Look at how easy she makes it all look!
Making scones with grandma.
So much movement, so much blur, so much love for their little sister!
I realized I left out a fun event in my blogging. I think it might have even been back in August, although I don't remember for sure. My parents took the kids to something called the Old Threshers festival. Originally Brennan and I thought we would go too, but I was having some pretty serious abdominal and back pain that week and it was a bit of a drive and would involve a lot of walking. Plus we thought it might be a good opportunity to get started on the bathroom renovation.
My parents actually took some photos with their phones, which is quite out of character for them! It was fun to see what they did all day.
Declan was thrilled to be riding the train.
So were these two cute girls.
The kids got to drive a tractor which they thought was the greatest. They loved telling us how they almost ran over some chickens.
This picture cracks me up. Knowing Tatum, I'm sure she was pretty nervous having that man standing so close and talking to her.
A couple other things from the first week of October. We always do a girls night on General Conference weekend while the guys go to the Priesthood session. It almost always involves ice cream. The kids got dilly bars from DQ this time and eating them was quite a struggle.
Declan actually did a decent job,
...but for some reason it really stressed Tatum out.
Tatum colored pictures of a lot of the speakers during conference as one of her activities.
President Monson and Elder Anderson were a couple of my favorites.
The day after my due date the kids and I joined my parents in going to Macy and Caden's cross country meet. It was a beautiful evening for it. We ran into Tatum's preschool teacher there and it was funny to watch it take a minute for Tatum to figure out what she was seeing-her teacher outside of school? whhhaaat?
