More fun

Things are still going well here. Elizabeth LOVES to hold Emma. Actually, she loves to talk to, read to, and sing to Emma and does that for quite awhile everyday. What a good big sister she's been so far! And Emma seems to be calmed by Elizabeth too.

Caleb is into being Superman. The kids went with Daddy to Burger King while I was in the hospital, and Caleb got these Superman glasses there. He came to the hospital wearing them and Luke and I were laughing so hard, it was hurting my incision. When the kids went to walk the halls with me in the hospital, Caleb still wore them the whole time. Very funny. Anyway, here he is with a "cape" and he likes to "fly" when he's Superman. He has learned that there are times when I can't get to him (when I'm feeding Emma) and then he is very mischievous and disobedient. I have to remind myself that he IS two....

We are having a super-long, hot heatwave here. We have had two days of 113 temperatures and many near or at 110. At night the lows are around 90! I am so thankful for air conditioning, but dread our next electric bill. Actually, I guess the whole state of California is in danger of power outages due to such a prolonged heat wave. I hope that doesn't happen.

So all is well. Mommy and Daddy are TIRED. Emma is still learning about night time sleeping. But she is such a cutie and generally a very good baby. She only really cries when she's hungry and sometimes when she wants to be held.

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Emma Grace

Emma's here!! These are a few pictures of her and our kids in her first couple days. We are home now and enjoying being here. There's more sleep here and better care!! =)

Emma still sleeps a lot but not necessarily at night. Oh, well. For now it's hard to keep her awake, we'll have to work on that next week. Elizabeth and Caleb are pretty happy with their new baby sister. Elizabeth is trying very hard to be helpful. She told us when she first saw Emma at the hospital, "The most important thing babies need is lots and lots of love!" Caleb wants to take Emma to the park and show her the ducks as soon as possible.

I am doing okay. After c-section #3, the pain is under control for now. I'm still on the pain meds, but I can walk normally at least. And I'm tired, but Luke is being very helpful letting me get little naps whenI can. Of course we miss having family around to come visit us and share our joy, but you all can do it from afar!!

4th Fun

We did venture out to Hanford, CA for fireworks and fun on July 4th. It's a very family-oriented time and they had some live bands playing. One was really good and played Christian rock music - familiar songs. The kids were dancing and jumping, it was really cute. Elizabeth is working really hard on trying to do a head-stand, she's very close. When the fireworks happened she did hold her ears, but Caleb loved it and all morning today just kept saying, "Fireworks. Dark!" The fireworks display was really long and had lots and lots of fireworks the whole time, I was surprised. I think they had more than other years.

We do have some fun stuff coming up in the next couple weeks - pre-baby. We have some college interns for the summer who need a certain number of hours working with W.I. So one morning they're going to take the staff kids to the zoo! Luke and I are going to have a breakfast date! Next week they're going to watch our kids one morning too so some ladies can have a ladies' breakfast and then a long God Date. That sounds so good to me!!! And one morning next week some friends are going to come help me clean my house for one last time before the baby's born. So.... not just sitting around waiting for the baby will be nice. the kids and I all get bored of that pretty fast!