Life at Home

Little update on our other little munchkins, who thanks to awesome family are hopefully not being too neglected these days! Brielle is still loving Kindergarten every day and doing awesome! As always, way too smart for her own good – her teachers tell me she needs to be in 2nd grade! :) But she still loves it, and I’m so proud of the sweet and happy girl she is at school. This is a picture of her in her school t-shirt for spirit day. Samuel is our amazing puzzle-doer these days! He has such a problem-solving mind… We can’t believe the big puzzles he can already put together all by himself – he’ll sit there forever working on a puzzle until he can figure it out! He’s such an organized problem-solver – the questions he asks us these days out of nowhere are hilarious – that mind is always thinking and just trying to figure everything out – we can’t believe all the questions he is always coming up with for us… Heaven help us when he gets older and we don’t know the answers anymore! And our little miss priss, Colette, as always – I took this picture of her in front of her closet because it is her favorite place to raid and find new clothes, shoes, and especially dresses! She is very opinionated about the outfits she wears now – very hard to persuade to wear anything other than a dress – she loves to figure out what matches, and pick what she wants to wear every day… And as is obvious from the picture – she loves to pose! (My dream come true!) :)

How thankful we were for my mom staying with us for 3 weeks to help out right now – making this a fun experience for the kids rather than a sad one! And awesome Aunt Athena came to help us for 5 days as well – such lifesavers!! We were so thankful for their help!

The Rest of September with Timothy

September 29, 2009

Timothy Bruce Ray - 17 Days Old

(Still not a lot of time for explanations, so I'm just posting all the pictures again for now....)

Sep. 21 - Timothy's first time eating!, Grandma's first time holding him, Moving up to a big boy's crib...

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Sep. 23 - My first time giving Timothy a bath...
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Sep. 26 - Timothy 2 weeks old

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Sep. 29 - Timothy is so alert and loves to be talked and sung to while we hold him - staring at us with those huge eyes of his - such a sweetie! (He's quite the smiler too!)

Sep. 30 - Timothy 18 Days Old

(Just realized we need more pictures with Daddy... We'll work on that!)

Video of Timothy

11-Day-Old Timothy

Timothy Bruce Ray is Born!!!

Timothy Bruce Ray
Born: September 12, 2009 3:02 am
7 lbs. 9 ½ oz. 21 ¼ in.
(This picture is Timothy at 3 days old)

Well, very unexpectedly, our 4th little munchkin joined our family last week – he is officially one week old today. Not lots of time to tell the story right now, of course, and I’m horrible at choosing and eliminating pictures, so I’m just going to post them all from his first week right now, and maybe another day there will be more time for descriptions & better organization(though I doubt it!) The poor little guy has spent his first week of life in the NICU because of a condition he has called congenital chylothorax… As of right now, he does seem to be doing better – or at least not getting worse, so we are VERY thankful! It has definitely been the longest week ever, but we are just so thankful and in love with our new little son! What a special and sweet spirit he has about him. We are truly blessed with our fourth little angel!

September 12 – First pictures

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September 13 – 1 Day old & the kids’ first and only time seeing their new baby brother (& me leaving the hospital)…



September 15 – 3 Days old & sunbathing in the bili lights!) :)



September 17 – 5 days old & our first time getting to hold him since he was born (& our favorite nurse in the NICU, Patty)

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September 18 – 6 Days old