Our baby girl is doing great!! She's eating like a champ and much to our delight seems to understand that nighttime is for sleeping- yay! Despite being a bit overwhelmed with caring for 2 little ones 24/7 Gabe and I seem to be doing pretty good and have even managed to keep a decently clean house (mostly thanks to Gabe!)
Big Sister Evie is still pretty excited about the baby; she likes holding her and loves helping out. So far, so good....
She's a great cuddler with her little sister:
Just loves giving sweet kisses too:
Our angel is changing quickly though.... still sweet as sugar though:
A baby carrier is a major blessing when I need both hands free! This is my Beco Butterfly- love it! http://www.beco.com
Rocking together is too much fun!
We had a busy weekend of visitors since Lydia was baptized on Sunday (plus the long weekend gave everyone that extra chance to travel- so nice!)
First Aunt Natalie and the kids stopped by:
Then Uncle Greg and Aunt Stacie came for a few cuddles:
And then we spent lots of time at Grandma's house over the weekend where the rest of her Aunts and cousins spoiled her all day long. Here's Aunt Mandy and Aunt Sara:
Jason and Natalie are Lydia's sponsors (Jason had to preach that morning and couldn't make it to the service, but will still be a great sponsor!)
Sweetly asleep... our little angel:
I got a chance to take Lydia's newborn portraits last week too. View the set here at my photography website: www.melissareneephotography.com
Wednesday, September 9, 2009
Lydia's 2nd week
Tuesday, September 1, 2009
Lydia Ruth arrives
We are so happy to welcome our new baby girl to the world. Lydia Ruth arrived very, very quickly on Friday, August 28th at 2:56pm. She is very healthy and is sleeping, eating and doing great. She's very petite- such skinny little arms and legs! We're absolutely loving having her to snuggle with. Big sister Evie is doing pretty good with her too- likes laughing at her silly noises and funny ways she moves her head.
Just a few minutes after she was born... so happy!!!
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She has lots of dark brown hair, just like big sister! Not quite as dark though.
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I had such a wonderful birthing experience thanks to special help from my doula, Kim Langley. She was FANTASTIC!!
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She's got a cute little squinty eye. :)
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We came home on Saturday afternoon, but big sister Evie didn't come home until Sunday afternoon. She seems to like her pretty well.
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Visitors! Grandma Cooper stops over almost everyday to see the girls and get a little snuggle in.
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She was so cute while napping yesterday- loved curling up on her side
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Monday, May 11, 2009
World's smallest bandaid & a new room!
Poor little Evie had a little accident with a ceramic snowman and got a nice little cut on her pinky finger. A cut that required the suture of the world's tiniest bandaid (hand-created by daddy!) She was so pitiful with favoring it for the next few hours. Too cute. Of course daddy came to realization that someday we might need much bigger bandaids for much bigger cuts and scrapes- it's scary but true, right? If only they'd stay little forever!
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Evie has a new big girl room! She loves it. We moved her in the weekend of her birthday, but I'm just getting around to finishing a few of the details. Last weekend Evie and I painted the pictures for her wall- not too bad?
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