Halloween Party at Grandma and Grandpa's

Picture Overload!!

 Hanging out at football practice

 Look at those eyes!

 Cuteness

 Oh the CHUB!!

 

 Go James (he is the one blocking in the first picture and the one holding the ball in the second picture)!  I do need to say that James is doing a fabulous job playing football.  Mark and I were unsure how he would like it,  but he has improved so much and he is really starting to love it!  The last game he sacked the quaterback for a 5 yard loss for the other team.  Today during practice he caught an interception.  He has two more games left and Mark told him that if he catches an interception and runs in for a touch down at either game, Mark will buy him a Nintendo DS. 

 Daddy with his girl

 Smile!!

 My cute little football player and dad as the coach.

Protecting little sis

 Sweet little face

 Found my tongue!

 Doing homework

 More craziness

 Oh how I love her

 These two are so much fun

He can't get enough of "little sister"

Chloe-1 month

Chloe Jean

Well, it looks like I'm going to have to change the title of my blog! Chloe Jean was born July 26, 2011 just before 7pm. It was a quick and painful labor, but we are both happy and healthy! Chloe is the sweetest little thing and we are so happy to have her in our family. Her brothers adore her and are still fighting over who gets to hold her!!Here I am right before my doctor broke my water. After that it's all a blur because it put me into full blown labor and I had Chloe an hour and a half later. I did get an epidural, but because I was progressing so quickly, I was maybe tingly up to my knees before she was born!
But I survived! As soon as she came out, the doctor said, "it's a girl!" I think I responded, "is it really?" He then turned her around to show me and then I started to bawl! Then Mark started to cry as well! We just couldn't believe it. She was such a wonderful surprise!






Pretty good size for being 10 days early!




I noticed right away her right eye eye looked a little different, but the doctor told us it was bruising. We later found out it was a blocked tear duct.





Here we are after she got all cleaned up.

She is beautiful!!

Grandma Jean, Chloe, and our boys!

The day we came home from the hospital. Mark, Chloe, James, and crazy Andrew!

Caleb wasn't quite sure what to think, but he has warmed up nicely to his baby sister.

Sleepy newborn. You can see the tear duct was filling up right away.

Sweet little girl, just a few days old.

Andrew and Chloe.

Her eye was getting worse every day. We took her to her doctor, a dermatologist, a pediatric plastic surgeon, an eye doctor, had a ultrasound, MRI, CT scan and after four weeks we finally got the correct diagnosis (thanks to Dr. Hoffman, the eye doctor). A blocked tear duct! After weeks of stressing (plus she got a cold at two weeks old) we had a date for her to get it fixed!

Here she is 5 days before she had the procedure done.

Here she is a few hours after the probing! My poor drugged up baby, but she did awesome!

And here are a few recent pictures of our little girl! She is now a month old, she weighs over 9 lbs and she slept for 7 hours straight last night!

Here she is doing the baby startle reflex.