Thursday, April 14, 2011

Sweet Moments

Well we've been a family of 4 now for 3 weeks and we're loving it! Turns out taking care of a newborn, 3yr old and trying to recover takes some time and leaves me neglecting this blog.
So here's lots of pictures to sum up the sweet moments we've had these past 3 weeks.:

Sunday.

Jillian's first day of church, we only stayed for Sacrament, and well me and Jillian spent most of that in the mother's room, but doesn't she look great in this dress!?!


Yesterday Erik wanted to spell words with his magnet letters. Then he wanted to discover all the metal things in our apt that the magnets could stick to. This activity was inspired by an episode of Caillou. That is the "caiu" word in the picture above, my attempt at spelling a french word.
TUMMY TIME!

Last week her umbilical cord came completely off and to us that means tummy time!

She really does great with this, has at least one high head and neck lift then just lays there peacefully for a bit.

Erik+Jillian=kisses, lots and lots of kisses

it's pretty much Erik's favorite thing to do with Jillian
General Conference was wonderful!!

We Love listening to the words and counsel of our prophet and apostles!

We set up our usual Conference tent and Erik loved playing BINGO and eating tons of sugar. He got a little too wound up on jelly beans :)

cute conference story: Inbetween sessions on Sunday they showed church news and we saw President Monson speaking at the Hawaii temple re-dedication. Pres. Monson was wearing a bright and colorful lei and Erik said, "ha! President Monson's trying to be a butterfly!"

Oh I belly laughed right out loud, the funniest thing! I'd really like to send the prophet a letter with this story included, I think he'd get a good laugh out of it.
The week after Jillian was born Paul took Erik to the Zoo and I got to nap for 2 hours with the baby, it was wonderful and my boys had a ton of fun seeing all the cool Zoo animals.
I love the cute positions she puts her hands in and I love how relaxed she looks, she's just so cute!
Little Miss Cherry on top.
Daddy taking care of bed time with our 2 kids.

This was so sweet I had to capture it. I love saying we have "kids" now, it's great to be the parents of 2 :)
These are of Jillian's first bath at home. I love that w/Paul holding her it looks like she's smiling at him. She smiles a LOT by the way, especially when she's drifting off to sleep or when Daddy's holding her.
We certainly have a precious little angel in our home and we love her so!

8 comments:

Liz, Karl, Madison, Brooklyn, Aubrey and Zachary said...

She is so beautiful. It sure is fun to watch the little ones adjust to having a sibling and to see how much love they have for each other. I'm glad things are going well for you guys.

Tannie Datwyler said...

What a sweet girl! It is crazy adjusting to more kids - whatever number it is. :) It's just harder to have a newborn when you have other kid that need you. It looks like you are all doing well!

Angie McKenna said...

I'll bet these first weeks have been crazy busy. I don't know how you do it! She is just so beautiful! I'll bet you take many times a day just to look at her. You talking about her smiling already reminds me of Erik and how much he smiled as a baby. I always remember thinking that he almost couldn't contain himself! Man, he made me baby hungry. What an awesome family you are!

CHall said...

Thanks for the update and pictures. Wish I could hold her and have Erik over to play so you could sleep.

Nicky and Patrick said...

So precious! She is adorable and I'm so glad she is here safe and sound and cute as a button!

John and Dana Lyn said...

AAAAWWWWW!!!! I wanna squeeze her! She's so cute and tiny and Erik looks like such a fun lovable big brother. Saying the word "kids" was new and fun for us too when Jacob came along. I'm glad Paul is doing such a good job of taking Erik off your hands so you can nap with the baby! And yes, you should send that story to Pres. Monson. :) I loved all the pictures! We sure miss you guys!

Cummings said...

So sweet! Such a beautiful little family - it looks like you all are enjoying life surrounded by your little angels! We wish you the best with all the fun changes!

DaveyMike said...

So excited to some see ya'll this week.