Wordless Wednesday: Baby Love

Introducing Riley

Riley James, May 25th 2011, 7 lbs 4 ozs, 20 1/4 inches

His beautiful Mommy, Debbie

Proud Daddy, Ricky

Trisha and RJ, his brother and sister. They live in Oklahoma with their mom but we are thrilled to have them here for 7 weeks.

I love this picture.

Kendall really likes her new cousin and wants so badly to hold him.

My dear Riley, I am so excited that I get to be your auntie. We all love you very much. We prayed for you to join our family for so long. You are a very lucky little boy to have such wonderful parents. You are your Mommy's biggest dream come true. You have a very fun and sweet Daddy. We thank God for you, sweet baby.

Wordless Wednesday: You Are My Sunshine

Gender Issues

Recently I was going through the check-out line at walmart with Kendall. The cashier made a comment about my darling little girl (I agree with this part) and then went on to tell my that people think that she's lucky to have three boys because girls are harder and they're so snotty. I've also had people ask me if Gary was disappointed we didn't have a boy.

Does this

 look like

a disappointed man to you?

My SIL is pregnant with a boy. When she shared the news several people replied with sighs of disappointment. My point is that people need to be careful with what they say and how they say it. I love my little girl so much and it hurts me to hear people make negative statements about parenting girls. My SIL is thrilled to be having a son (and I am to be having a nephew) and it hurts her when people imply a girl would have been better. I have the child that God wanted me to have. She is exactly as He intended. That's what matters. I would love any child that the Lord chooses for me to have NO MATTER WHAT! That's the beauty of a parents love. It's unconditional.

Kendall's stay at DCH

Poor Kendall just spent two nights in the hospital with pneumonia and dehydration

The "baby cage"

Sick girlie

loves her seahorse

Daddy makes it better

watching Snow White

Ok, I'm better now, get this off!

Kendall has WHAT???

Thursday I took advantage of Kendall's long nap to do some research on the recent measles outbreak for a school project. I spent a couple of hours digging up information on the disease including lots of pictures of babes covered in the horrible red spots. So you can imagine my shock when I went to fetch my own babe from her bed after nap time to discover THOSE SAME SPOTS! She was seemingly healthy when I put her down for her nap 2 hours before and when she woke up she was burning up and had red spots around her ears and face and spreading down her body. I kept telling myself that just because I was hearing hoof beats didn't mean it was zebras and that babies get rashes from all sorts of things. She couldn't possibly have the measles. Where would she possibly get exposed to measles??? I was panicking slightly at this point and after a call to the Emergency Room Gary and I decided we'd better run her in. Imagine my surprise when the doctor announced that the rash was, in fact, definitely measles. However, they are a weaker strain of the measles. Not the same kind that are rare and breaking out in the cities right now. The doctor called them the 3 day measles. She said that they would go away on their own in 3 days (imagine that). But boy did my heart ever leap when she said that my beautiful girl had measles. It was a scary moment as a mom. God sure has blessed us with a child that is happy no matter what the situation! Even in a busy emergency room, burning with fever, covered in rash Kendall was almost all smiles!



Here she is waiting in the emergency room

Sorry the pictures are so small they're from Gary's i-pod

Kendall's First Birthday Party

We celebrated Kendall's first birthday last month. It's hard to believe that it's been over a year since we held our little blessing for the first time. Yet, I can't imagine life without our sweet girl. We celebrated her big day with a party at a hotel in town with a swimming pool. Miss Kendall loves the water. She had so much fun splashing with her family and friends. We had pizza for supper and cupcakes made by Grandma Nancy. As we sang Happy Birthday to her she watched in awe with a big smile on her face that could have melted any one's heart. She was very dainty with her cupcake at first. She just licked the frosting off her fingers for a while. Then she decided it was pretty good stuff so she picked it up and ate it that way. She was very enthusiastic about her gifts and fussed a little when I would take one away so she could open the next. She loved all of the gifts she got and she got wonderful things! It was such a fun celebration of our darling girl!

Here she is in the swimming pool

swimming

Her cousin Brady

Kendall while we sang to her

Yummmm



Enjoying her cupcake

Opening gifts

Playing with Grandma Trudy and Brady